Rage Against The Machine To Record Again?
Killyourstereo.com reports that although guitarist Tom Morello has repeatedly turned down numerous offers to record again with Rage Against the Machine, rumours abound that the reunited political rap-rock giants will enter the studio in the near future to record their first album since 2000's "Renegades."
The band has not revealed a release date, nor confirmed if their longtime label Epic Records will handle the new album. Since reuniting in 2007, Rage Against the Machine has been touring and playing festivals almost non-stop. Vocalist Zach de la Rocha even found time to release a self-titled EP with former Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore under the name One Day as a Lion.
Morello has also been sowing his creative seeds with his own solo project, The Nightwatchman, and according to him, that's all he needs. "[The Nightwatchman is] my principal musical focus, as I see it, for the remainder of my life. From the earliest days of playing open mic nights at coffee houses, it was apparent to me that this music was as important to me as any music I've ever been involved in. It really encapsulates everything I want to do as an artist," he says.
Right now, the band have no plans to tour or play any more live shows, although Morello noted that he doesn't "see any reason to not play more shows."
Source: Killyourstereo
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3. writes:
To post #2:
Tell me about it. First, when RATM got back together in 2007, Tom said there were no plans for a new album, then this past fall 2008 rumors about them recording an album began to surface and then the members immediately denied them, and then this past December Tom said there were plans for some shows this year but they weren't planning a new album at all. Now here we are in April 2009, but no sign of whether they're ever doing shows or recording again.
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5. writes:
RATM? Haha. What is it with all these Nu-Metal bands deciding they want to start torturing our ears again with new recordings? Ok, these guys are somewhat better than Limp Bizkit, but to someone between the ages of 5 and 80, they're not very metal. And they do really suck, but at least Audioslave is no more...
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10. writes:
I dont know... theres something about this particular style of music that in my opinion you're too old to perform it when you reach 35. Do we really wanna see Zach doing his rapper moves or someone like Limp Bizkit jumping around the stage in baseball caps in their 40s?? The whole idea is just hilarious to me. But thats just me, as usual
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17. writes:
Rage says things that need to be said, that no other widely advertised band says. Most everything I decide to analyze is either about a) personal strength, b) some fantasy theme or b) life's trials and tribulations... and that's not including the weak topics of breaking up with your current high school crush and/or moving on to the next best thing. "Nu-metal?" Pff, hardly. Rage is a band all their own. While I'm all for metal, metal and more metal, sometimes the stuff they play is a breath of fresh air in a sea of mediocrity. So they use a groove in their style, so what? It's good to be different.
Oh, btw, there's really no need to put down what you're listening to as if it's some attestation to how "metal" or into the scene you are. You post here, we get it. That's good enough.
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19. writes:
Rage: relax about the NP thing. Some people view that as a way to discover new bands. Or to strike up new conversations about bands.
Oh, and BTW, don't tell us what we should and shouldn't do on our f***ing site. You're probably a little tweener that is rocking Bullet For My Valentine right now.
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22. writes:
This would be great news if its true. I would be interested to hear RATM's take on things right about now. The One Day as a Lion album mentioned above is pretty damn good. Worth checking out if you're a RATM fan (or even if you're not). Couple more things....RATM is not nu metal, and leftists can be patriots too! LOL
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25. writes:
OMG a person who says a group is bad/svcks on a topic about the group, is a person who doesn't have any respect for people's genre of music ... if you don't like the group or their music then why the hell are you here posting a message! Freedom of speech? Okay, but don't go hate-posting 0.0 a guy with a child should allready know a bit more about life! I don't care about politics at all, totally not interested but I like RATM songs ... does that make me right or left? lol, what's up with this f*cked up sh*t!
And pls don't go saying I'm a BFMV-fan or something, that would hurt me :P
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28. writes:
utoad9: RATM is not nu metal, and leftists can be patriots too!
Thank you for summing that up in a much better manner than I could. I was going to be vicious and longwinded. Glad to see you like Porcupine Tree too.
I'd welcome a new RATM album "IF" they can capture that frantic energy and vivid, scathing metaphors...
An album from RATM was direly needed during the last administration though the bulk of their material came out during the Clinton years...yet it was as much about Reagan, H.W. Bush and international human rights issues as it was about Slick Willie.
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29. writes:
You've gotta love any band that has as much passion as RATM. They really put their money where their mouth is, and they convey their ideas/views very effectively on stage and off. Metal?, I agree that an album from these guys is overdue.
Hey Metal? - I'm just beginning to digest the new Steven Wilson album, Insurgentes. From what I can tell so far, another classic. Damn, Steve has good taste in musicians (Tony Levin, Gavin Harrison, Jordan Rudess ,etc). I only wish I was wired for 5.1 surround. I understand this album is one of the best ever for this format.
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31. writes:
"Since reuniting in 2007, Rage Against the Machine has been touring and playing festivals almost non-stop"
-Not Really, 2 summers ago they did 3 shows because i was at one of them. One in Cali with Wutang and bunch of rap acts. One in New York w/ wu-tang and one in Chicago/Milwaukee w/ Queens of the Stoneage...i was there. A few festivals last year. "non-stop" is kind of rediculous.
Hope they do record again. Nightwatchmen isn't all that great imo. Street Sweeper is ok and Zach's solo stuff is just ok as well.
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34. writes:
I hope RAGE doesn't make a new album. Not because I don't like them. Quite the opposite, I think they were original and kicked a$$ and were never truly Nu-metal. I just don't think they'd have the same effect they once had. At this point it would just be an epic fail. Please RAGE don't disgrace yourselves.
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45. writes:
Oh it SOUNDS like Rage. it's got the key signature RATM guitars and drums.... but it wasn't a real Rage album. Because it was other people's songs there wasn't the same scything lyrical metaphors... except maybe on the cover of Bob Dylan's "Maggie's Farm" which is by FAR the best song on that album - and the original was brilliant, too :)
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47. writes:
Nothing beats the one-two combo of their self title and Evil Empire.
And non-album tracks like "No Shelter" (Godzille soundtrack), "Darkness" (The Crow Soundtrack) and the original mix of "The Ghost of Tom Joad" (Packaged with a VHS tape about the band) are perfection.
"Ghost of Tom Joad" is one cover RATM truly made their own. "How I could just Kill a Man" and "Pistolgrip Pump" were good too though.
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48. writes:
Cypress Hill... lol... The Ghost of Tom Joad comes in a VERY close second for me - I really do love Bob Dylan.
I really enjoyed the live cover they did of "F_ck the Police" (buy a vowel). And I cannot stress enough how awesome the song "Revolutionary" is that they did with Tool. I guess it was a b-side or something, I dunno, found it on the net YEARS ago lol.
52. writes:
Political brainwashing at its finest with rage.....i fahqn hate political songs, groups, etc....and whats there new material going to consist of?.....democrats cleaned up last election, is it the same ol bullsh**?....with the U.S in 2 maybe 3 or 4 wars right now if you count the mexican drug cartels, the somali pirates and possible iran and n korea, the last thing i want to hear is a rage, or a corey taylor song...past or new......
Fahqn crank up the mushroomhead or the soulfly.........
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58. writes:
RTB
Just because you disagree with it doesn't make it brainwashing, furthermore members of RATM have said their politics are far to the left of Obama and congressional democrats. Obama is less of an enemy to them than Bush but Obama still has a target on his head. RATM were quick to point out the neglect, lies and corruption of Reagan and HW Bush as well as Clinton in interviews and tape.
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61. writes:
I just dont understand WHY RATM would come back? What can they possibly say/do that they havent already? Ok, so Bush is history, Saddam very much so, Hugo Chavez throws some nice lines every now and again for the rest of the world to laugh at, The old "gringo" Castro still makes some nasty comments towards USA from his deathbed, Osama is horseback riding in Afghanistan, and it's too early to start battering Obama. Without forgetting other things like music. And on that side, RATM is simply outdated.
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62. writes:
^You do realise they were talking about Bush Snr... there's a whole new Bush era for them to rage at now :) But seriously, I think you're concentrating too much on presidents/dictators. True, RATM were outspoken against them, but they also focused on things like genocide, wars, atrocities/crimes committed for profit by governments/corporations - they were never only against the figureheads of democracy and dictatorship.
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66. writes:
58 you just hit on 1 thing, RATM has admitted they are far to the left, more than obama,.....how many off the chart far left wingers do you know that preach the truth? Without trying to cramm it down your throat?....they all try to brainwash america with their rhetoric and propaganda on...just about everything...i dont see democrats doing much of that..republicans more maybe a little,...... when i think of far left i think of RATM ward churchill cindy sheehan rosie o donnell jeanine garaffolo the new york times al frankin nancy pelosi barbara boxer joy bayhar, ....can go on and on, these people are insults to the democratic party,....and i dont need a band or anybody from hollywood to tell me how to think or how to vote.....you read quality articles, look at the facts and judge for yourself, past, present....shouldnt everyone do that? Im not particulary fond of either party, but off the chart far left pisses me off...i have no tolerance for that kind of crap.... RATM has the right to say whatever they want....i just dont wanna hear it.... oh and how can i forget audioslave kissin a$$ to the cuban goverment bashing bush but america as well then doin a show and a dvd from there....cubas liberation is long overdue but the point is the far left bashing the US to a communist bloodsucking country like cuba to score some brownie points just to play where no american music group has ever performed .........you think castro let them play there cause they are fans of the band?.....if they didnt talk a bunch of sh** about the states first, and your nieve to think they did not, they wouldnt have been allowed to play there.........this went way too long sorry guys will get off my political soapbox...................np dimmu borgir
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68. writes:
I think it would be misguided to say that people with far-left ideals are more outspoken that people with far-right ideals. Republican/Christian groups are always very eager to let the world know what they think, same as Michael Moore/RATM/whoever you consider to be far-left. The only difference as far as I can tell (do correct me if I'm wrong) is that the far-left groups generally don't have the finances to make much of an impact on government through political donations.
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Yes Bbristowe, I am aware that Dethklok is a joke. And I am sure that Corpsegrinder is aware of that too. (For anyone that goes WTF when they read that, he has a Dethklok shirt on in Evisceration Plague vid). Although, again no mention of my Nifelheim dp, or my NP. Anyway, thats all I had to say, apart from to again say that RATM suck. Haha. And, also, does anyone else find it funny that people get so mad at people that 'dis' a band they like, and what makes it funnier is when they threaten someone they're never going too see. Hahahaha.
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75. writes:
hmm seems things are 50/50 here on this board lol. personally, i'd like to hear what they would have to offer, killing in the name and know your enemy are awesome songs, but 80% of their music f***ing blows donkey balls.
and their last album was absolutely horrid. a f***ing discrace.
now, if they DO make another album, of course i'll listen to it. if it's sh**, then it's sh**. if it's ok, then its ok. RATM is the typical average band; they're just there in the background imo.
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85. writes:
"Yes Bbristowe, I am aware that Dethklok is a joke. And I am sure that Corpsegrinder is aware of that too. (For anyone that goes WTF when they read that, he has a Dethklok shirt on in Evisceration Plague vid). Although, again no mention of my Nifelheim dp, or my NP. Anyway, thats all I had to say, apart from to again say that RATM suck. Haha. And, also, does anyone else find it funny that people get so mad at people that 'dis' a band they like, and what makes it funnier is when they threaten someone they're never going too see. Hahahaha."
It's even funnier when they take a whole paragraph to explain it.
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1. G writes:
sh**! Here come them new album rumors again!