Rage Against The Machine: Evil Empire (Epic)

RAGE AGAINST the Machine's second album barges into an alternative rock world where discontent is routinely channeled into introverted abstraction and metaphor rather than a hard political agenda. The band tapped a constituency with its debut, but it still seems somehow unfashionable as it faces an audience that thinks a Molotov cocktail must be the cool thing to drink at a Combustible Edison gig.