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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Rage - The Untold Story

This underrated Rage Against The Machine album holds a special place in my vinyl collection

It may be well and truly out of its rebellious teenager phase, but this album is still as relevant as ever

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"There’s been a constant tension that’s been an enormous challenge for us all over the years –he did what he had to do.” Did a televised protest against Limp Bizkit really force Zack de la Rocha to quit Rage Against The Machine?

In this archive interview, Tom Morello reveals the truth behind his bandmate's MTV Awards stunt, riots in the street and the original rage-quit

Metal Hammer

"I had 20 kids on my doorstep looking in my windows. I couldn’t go to the grocery store." Tom Cruise, Eminem, the Twin Towers and a million sales in a week - the story behind the album that made Limp Bizkit the biggest rock band on the planet

For just a moment, this was the record that officially made metal the biggest genre in the world

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“It was the worst guitar I’d ever played. I’d spent all my money making it. I was stuck with it. So I started writing songs”: Arm the Homeless was a disaster, then it changed rock history. Tom Morello reveals how Fender replicated its misfit charms

Arm the Homeless is synonymous with the Rage Against the Machine firebrand and one of the most iconic electric guitars of all time. Morello explains why, after 30 years, he’s finally getting sentimental about his “artistic co-worker” – and the one thing that separates the Fender replica from the original

Guitar World

“We’ve spent too much time raging against each other and not enough time raging against the machine”: the kiss-off covers album that brought Rage Against The Machine’s glorious first phase to a messy end

The LA quartet's fourth record Renegades was meant to be a celebration, only for Zack de la Rocha to leave the band before it was even released

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“Before we had a chance to stop, four officers jumped me. One tried to break my arm, the other put a choke hold on my neck”: With one music video, this rap metal band almost brought the financial heart of America to its knees

Sleep Now In The Fire helped Rage Against The Machine survive the nu metal takeover – then its music video nearly got them arrested

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Life on the precipice: How Audioslave gave Chris Cornell hope

Audioslave successfully separated the four members from the shadows of their former bands, but for Chris Cornell it was far more important than that

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"Rage Against The Machine was always sort of a volatile situation." Tom Morello addresses the future of Rage Against The Machine

In a new radio interview, Tom Morello addresses why RATM cancelled tour dates in 2022, the future of the band and the last time he saw Ozzy Osbourne

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“Everyone in our circle was listening to a lot of West Coast hip hop, and it was minor key and dark. If you could take that to the next level, you could make it heavy metal”: How hip hop changed metal forever

Anthrax, Rage Against The Machine and Korn all owe a debt to hip hop

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“I'm like the Pablo Escobar of bass. If a dude works on my pedalboard, it's almost like I have to kill him after he's done!” With Rage Against the Machine, Tim Commerford pioneered an all-time iconic bass tone. No wonder he's cagey about his setup

The toughest right hand in bass charts his never-ending quest for the ultimate tone

Guitar World

“This is a bass that I fell in love with at a pawnshop and used to play the first Rage record”: Ernie Ball Music Man and Tim Commerford team up for a pair of limited run signature StingRay basses

Commerford's latest EBMM signature collab features a pair of doozies, one active, one passive, both with adjustable thumb ramps, ash bodies and roasted maple necks

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“I was having so much anxiety about getting a great sound that I wasn’t writing songs… I said, ‘I’m gonna stop thinking about it. This is going to be my sound’”: Tom Morello on his tone struggles and what he learned from teaching his son Roman how to play

Rage Against The Machine icon discusses his unreleased Post Malone song, being outshredded by his son, pushing Iron Maiden for the Hall of Fame and why he avoids most endorsement deals

Guitar World

The time Tom Morello apologised for Rage Against The Machine accidentally creating the "misogynistic", "anti-woman" and "fratty" nu metal genre

"We made records every four years. In that gap, labels were like, ‘How can we get a band that sounds like Rage but sang about girls and showed up for video shoots?'”

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"Our decision-making process has completely failed." The Battle Of Los Angeles at 25: how Rage Against The Machine just about kept it together to create one final masterpiece before imploding

The wheels were already beginning to come off Rage Against The Machine by 1998. Luckily, they managed to get into the studio together and prove they had one last statement to give the world

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“We're smelling bodies burning worldwide, and no-one is doing a thing.” Rage Against The Machine's Tim Commerford on his new band 7D7D, RATM, Trump, media censorship, government lies, and why a world on fire needs musicians to stand up and speak out

Tim Commerford has thoughts, and he's not afraid to share them as he gears up for a return to Europe with new band 7D7D

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"I was in spandex pants, reading Karl Marx." From birth in Harlem to graduation from Harvard to stripping, Rage Against The Machine and fighting the KKK: this is the incredible life story of Tom Morello

The Rage Against The Machine legend takes a deep dive into his unique life and career

Guitar World

“When I went into that fire burn I was thinking, ‘What's the worst that could happen?’” That time Rage Against the Machine's Tim Commerfordinjected himself with steroids then set himself on fire

The RATM bassist went all out for Future User’s Mountain Lion video – which also features a cameo by Lance Armstrong

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"My doctor said, 'He might as well be in pain on crutches at the Led Zeppelin show.'" Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello on his love of Jimmy Page, and the childhood injury that nearly robbed him of seeing Zeppelin live

Rage Against The Machine shredder Tom Morello opens up on one of his favourite bands

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"I let my rock work do the cool thing for me, which means in my private life I can be whatever the hell I want": Tom Morello is a Star Trek nerd and proud of it

Tom Morello might be Mr Politics, but the Rage Against The Machine guitarist is proud to fly the geek flag

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"I don't know, I'm the bass player": Tim Commerford admits he has no idea if Rage Against The Machine have broken up

Bassist Tim Commerford addresses Rage Against The Machine's alleged split and admits his prostate cancer diagnosis affected him on the band's ill-fated comeback tour

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Rage Against The Machine is breaking up... again

Drummer Brad Wilk made the announcement on social media

MusicRadar

Rage Against The Machine will not be touring or playing live again: “I don’t want to string people or myself along any further” says drummer, Brad Wilk

The announcement comes 16 months after RATM’s last live performance

Chicago Sun-Times

Rage Against the Machine ‘will not be touring or playing live again,’ drummer says

Fans had been waiting for the rescheduling of shows postponed in 2022 and 2023.

Louder

"I want to make a record where I don’t have to play by the rules or have any hit singles": Bruce Springsteen on his acoustic masterpiece The Ghost Of Tom Joad

Inspired by the classic novel The Grapes Of Wrath, The Ghost Of Tom Joad became a staple of Bruce Springsteen’s live shows, and led to The Boss teaming up with RATM’s Tom Morello

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“If you’ve got a boss, join a union. If you’re an anarchist, throw a brick. If you’re a soldier or a cop, follow your conscience not your orders": watch Tom Morello's speech as Rage Against The Machine are inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame

Tom Morello tells RATM fans that it's time to change the world

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