Evil Empire (album)

Evil Empire is the second studio album by the American rock band Rage Against the Machine, released on April 16, 1996, by Epic Records. It debuted at number 1 on the US Billboard 200 chart with first week sales of 249,000 copies, and the song "Tire Me" won a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance; "Bulls on Parade" and "People of the Sun" were nominated for Grammys for Best Hard Rock Performance. On May 24, 2000, the album was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

For the phrase used by U.S. president Ronald Reagan to describe the U.S.S.R., see Evil Empire speech. For other uses, see Evil empire (disambiguation).
Evil Empire
Studio album by
Rage Against the Machine
ReleasedApril 16, 1996 (1996-04-16)
RecordedNovember–December 1995
StudioCole Rehearsal (Los Angeles)
Genre
Length46:37
LabelEpic
ProducerBrendan O'Brien
Rage Against the Machine chronology
Rage Against the Machine
(1992)		 Evil Empire
(1996)		 Live & Rare
(1998)
Singles from Evil Empire
  1. "Bulls on Parade"
    Released: February 9, 1996
  2. "People of the Sun"
    Released: August 22, 1996
  3. "Vietnow"
    Released: October 10, 1997

The album's title is a reference to a term used in the early 1980s by President Ronald Reagan and many American conservatives to describe the Soviet Union.

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