Tom Morello has created a playlist to drive ICE out of neighborhoods, and posted a photograph of a trash can that claims ICE. The Rage Towards The Machine guitarist is strongly against the administration’s immigration insurance policies.
In 2022, Rage Towards the Machine launched into their first tour in 11 years. Sadly, half means by the tour, frontman Zack de la Rocha suffered a leg damage. Regardless of Zack’s makes an attempt to push by – performing a few of their North American reveals whereas seated – the band was finally pressured to cancel greater than half of the scheduled reveals.
Now, in a brand new interview with radio station Q101, guitarist Tom Morello mirrored on Rage Towards the Machine’s determination to scrap the rest of their “Public Service Announcement Tour.”
“Nicely, the irony was, main as much as that tour, I ruptured my Achilles. So I used to be in rehearsal on crutches. I used to be, like, I might have open-heart surgical procedure on stage and never cancel a present. The present should go on,” Morello stated. “So then Zack — he was in such good condition. All people was doing their finest to make this factor occur. And generally it simply occurs. And he popped the Achilles and he had kind of seen my journey with it. And we completed the U.S. tour after which sadly canceled all the opposite stuff after that.”
Morello then went on to deal with the way forward for Rage Towards the Machine:
“Right here’s the way in which that I have a look at it, Rage Towards the Machine was all the time kind of a risky state of affairs. And the truth that we obtained 4 nice data, the truth that we performed reveals in 2022 and a brand new technology obtained to… Even when [Zack] was sitting down at these reveals, these have been a number of the finest Rage Towards the Machine reveals that we ever did and actually connect with individuals.”
“We completed with 5 sold-out nights at Madison Sq. Backyard. So if there’s by no means one other present, then that’s fairly a approach to exit.”
He continued, including that even when the band by no means will get again collectively once more, he’s doing his finest to honor their legacy throughout his solo reveals.
“However within the meantime, cross my coronary heart and hope to die, I’m carrying the torch for each a kind of riffs and the entire which means in these songs in addition to the opposite issues that I’ve been in. That music issues a lot to me, and what it’s about issues a lot. And I’m bringing that sh*t to Chicago, child.”
In 2024, drummer Brad Wilk dashed all hope that Rage Towards the Machine could sooner or later get again collectively, writing on social media that they’ll “not be touring or enjoying stay once more.”
