Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, Bruce Springsteen, and Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder Cover AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell”
Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello has announced the new album The Atlas Underground Fire, which he’ll release on October 15 via Mom + Pop. Included on the album is a cover of AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell,” featuring Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder. Listen below.
“Our version of ‘Highway to Hell’ pays homage to AC/DC but with Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder, bringing this legendary song into the future,” Morello said in a statement. “One of the greatest rock’n’roll songs of all time sung by two of the greatest rock’n’roll singers of all time. And then I drop a shredding guitar solo. Thank you and good night.”
In addition to Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder, The Atlas Underground Fire features contributions from Phantogram, Chris Stapleton, Damian Marley, Mike Posner, and more. Find the tracklist below.
Tom Morello, who released the album The Atlas Underground in 2018, recorded his new full-length at his home studio in Los Angeles. “During lockdown I had no access to an engineer so I had to record all of the guitar parts on the voice memo of my phone,” he said. “This seemed like an outrageous idea but it led to a freedom in creativity in that I could not overthink any of the guitar parts and just had to trust my instincts.”
Morello also said: “This record was a life raft in a difficult time that allowed me to find new ways of creating new global artistic connections that helped transform a time of fear and anxiety into one of musical expression and rocking jams.”
Read the interview “Tom Morello on the Music of His Life.”
The Atlas Underground Fire:
01 Harlem Hellfighter
02 Highway to Hell [ft. Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder]
03 Let’s Get the Party Started [ft. Bring Me the Horizon]
04 Driving to Texas [ft. Phantogram]
05 The War Inside [ft. Chris Stapleton]
06 Hold the Line [ft. Grandson]
07 Naraka [ft. Mike Posner]
08 The Achilles List [ft. Damian Marley]
09 Night Witch [ft. Phem]
10 Charmed I’m Sure [ft. Protohype]
11 Save Our Souls [ft. Dennis Lyxzén]
12 On the Shore of Eternity [ft. Sama’ Abdulhadi]
