Rage Against The Machine Calls Time on ‘Playing Live Again’ – Billboard

RATM’s submit is a curious one which, on the time of writing, wasn’t shared to the rockers’ Facebook or Instagram pages and fails to say whether or not recording initiatives are nonetheless within the playing cards. Bandmates Zack de la Rocha (vocals), bassist and backing vocalist Tim Commerford (bass) and Tom Morello (guitar) haven’t commented.

The L.A. group was lastly tapped for the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2023, after 5 tries. Internal band points had been apparent then; Morello was the one member to attend the induction ceremony on the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

RATM launched simply 4 albums throughout their preliminary 1991-2000 run earlier than reforming for reside dates from 2007-2011 and once more in 2019 for a string of exhibits that had been first interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic after which by de la Rocha’s leg harm.

LPs Evil Empire (from 1996) and The Battle Of Los Angeles (1999) each peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.

RATM has made eight whole appearances on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay, with three songs within the high 10 (all in 2000), together with “Guerrilla Radio,” which peaked at No. 69 on the Hot 100.

Few songs, nevertheless, have the ability and fury of RATM’s signature music from 1992, “Killing In The Name,” a document that linked with youths in all places and sprayed sufficient power to allow them run by way of partitions.

When their identify was referred to as out for induction into the Rock Hall class of ’23, the band recounted, by means of a press release, how they put their rage into motion.

They had been, the assertion reads, “A band who shut down the NY Stock Exchange for the primary time in its historical past.

“A band who was focused by police organizations who tried to ban us from offered out arenas for elevating our voices to free Mumia Abu Jamal, Leonard Peltier and different political prisoners

“A band who sued the US State Department for their fascist practice of using our music to torture innocent men in Guantanamo Bay.”

And, “a band who wrote rebel songs in an abandoned, industrial warehouse in the valley that would later dethrone Simon Cowell ’s X Factor pop monopoly to occupy the number 1 spot on the UK charts and have the most downloaded song in U.K. history.”

It’s now an amusing piece of U.Okay. chart historical past that, following a public marketing campaign, “Killing In The Name” grew to become 2009’s coveted Christmas U.Okay. No. 1 – and in doing so killing the established custom that the winner of X Factor would declare the prize.