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[[File:Museandratm.jpg | thumb | right | [[Matthew Bellamy]] and [[Dominic Howard]] with Rage Against the Machine]]
Rage Against the Machine are a rapcore band that formed in the 1990s.  It combines metal instrumentation and rap vocals.

Muse's members along with [[Thomas Kirk]]{{cite/none}} heard Rage Against the Machine live at the Carling Weekend, Reading in 1996.<ref name="bbc20061117">
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}}</ref>  This lead to their aspiration to one day headline the festival.<ref name="bbc20061117"/><ref name="k20060823">
{{cite/web |
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}}</ref>  Matthew Bellamy admires Rage Against the Machine's members for their "purity" and belief in what they do.<ref name="nme20000729">
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}}</ref>

The band's hearing of Rage Against the Machine's albums lead them in part to contact and recruit [[Rich Costey]].<ref name="sos200312">{{cite/Sound on Sound 2003-12}}</ref>  Costey claimed that this was because Muse wanted a "big and assertive" sound on their recordings.<ref name="sos200312"/>

During the first half of 2000, Bellamy attended "about eight" of their concerts.  After Rage Against the Machine's reunion that followed a hiatus, Muse performed on the same stage at [[Las Vegas Sam Boyd Stadium 2007 (gig) | Vegoose in October 2007]].  Muse had previously planned to have finished touring by that time,<ref name="jatd20070802">{{cite/The Breakfast Show 2007-08-02}}</ref> but after Matthew Bellamy heard that Rage Against the Machine were performing at that time, he decided to take advantage of the fact by extending Muse's tour.<ref name="jatd20070802"/>  According to one Muselive member who attended this concert, the band's guitarist Tom Morello watched Muse's performance from the side of the stage and said he thought it was "good".<ref name="ml20071107">
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Several Muse songs bear similarities with Rage Against the Machine songs.  For example, the bass part of Nishe sounds similar to the rhythm part of ''Bullet in the Head'', the Fury riff is similar to the bass part of ''Without a Face'' and the Hyper Music riff sounds like ''Snakecharmer'' and ''Testify''.  Matthew Bellamy frequently plays Rage Against the Machine riffs at concerts, such as {{Township Rebellion}} and Rage Against the Machine's rendition of {{Maggie's Farm}}.

Bellamy's favourite Rage Against the Machine album is ''The Battle of Los Angeles''.{{cite/none}}  Rage Against the Machine's self-titled album is one of Christopher Wolstenholme's five favourite albums, or was in December 2006.<ref>{{cite/alternativepress200612}}</ref>

During the 2009 X Factor series, a [http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2228594104&ref=ts| Facebook group] was created, campaigning to get Rage's song "Killing in the Name" to be Christmas No. 1 instead the usual X Factor winner's single release of the year.  During the campaign, [[Official Muse website | the Muse website]] had the slogan "WE SUPPORT RAGEFACTOR" on it's main page with a link to download "Killing in the Name" from iTunes below.  The campaign was successful and "Killing in the Name" was the 2009 Christmas No .1.

On the 18{{supo|th}} of April, it was announced [http://www.mxdwn.com/2011/04/18/news/rage-against-the-machine-confirmed-for-july-30-performance-with-muse-rise-against-and-more/ Muse would play a show with Rage Against the Machine and Rise Against] in Los Angeles on the 30{{supo|th}} of July.

== Rage Against the Machine riffs that Muse have played ==
* [[Riffs and jams#Bombtrack | Bombtrack]]
* [[Riffs and jams#Bulls on Parade | Bulls on Parade]]
* [[Riffs and jams#Freedom | Freedom]]
* [[Riffs and jams#How I Could Just Kill a Man | How I Could Just Kill a Man]]
* [[Riffs and jams#Killing in the Name | Killing in the Name]]
* [[Riffs and jams#Maggie's Farm | Maggie's Farm]]
* [[Riffs and jams#Microphone Fiend | Microphone Fiend]]
* [[Riffs and jams#People of the Sun | People of the Sun]]
* [[Riffs and jams#Revolver | Revolver]]
* [[Riffs and jams#Testify | Testify]]
* [[Riffs and jams#Township Rebellion | Township Rebellion]]
* [[Riffs and jams#War Within a Breath | War Within a Breath]]
* [[Riffs and jams#Township Rebellion | Township Rebellion]]

== References ==
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== See also ==
* [http://www.ratm.com Rage Against the Machine website]
* [http://blog.ratm.com/search/label/tom Tom Morello's blog]

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