Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

FOUND: Rage againstmachine - What They Never Told You

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

What Hi-Fi?

"We didn’t always know what we were doing on this record, and I think that’s the beauty of it." Jonathan Davis and Munky share the stories behind every song on Korn's game-changing debut album

A track by track breakdown of Korn's legendary 1994 debut album, by the men who wrote it

Metal Hammer

"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

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

"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

Metal Hammer

Don't Look Back in Anger at these classic 1996 tracks turning 30 this year

Life comes at you pretty fast

What Hi-Fi?

"We invited our families along, not thinking how it would be for them. When we came off, my sister was crying." How a teen pop duo earned the respect of Slipknot and Rage Against The Machine by getting bottled off stage by furious rock fans

In 2000, one of the strangest festival bookings in history unsurprisingly ended in chaos

Metal Hammer

Ted Nugent blasts Eminem and Jack White as 'total idiots' and hits out at Green Day

Guitarist Ted Nugent has slammed Eminem and Jack White, blasting the pair as "total idiots", and he also hit out at Green Day, insisting "there is not a brain among" their band members, as he took aim at their views on US President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

BANG Premier

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

“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

“The ‘Arm the Homeless’ guitar has been my comrade for life in the sonic sphere. It allowed me to find myself as an artist”: Tom Morello’s favourite electric has just been recreated by Fender

We have all seen this guitar. We have all heard it. Now we can buy it, and it has the same off-brand build and graphic finish as the original

MusicRadar

“One night, I decided to be the DJ in Rage Against the Machine - but I was going to do it all on the guitar”: How Tom Morello used his guitar to drill into the off-limits domain of the turntablist

The Rage Against the Machine axe-man’s most memorable moment saw him emulate a DJ scratch breakdown using a trick that few have fully mastered

MusicRadar

Tom Morello worked on a song for Final Fantasy 14's latest raid tier after finding out the game's composer was a huge Rage Against the Machine fan

They rally 'round the Black Mage, with a pocket full of spells.

PC Gamer

“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

Louder

"I thought this album was going to be the biggest of my career." The crazy forgotten music project featuring Ozzy Osbourne, System Of A Down, Wu-Tang Clan, Xzibit and more than was meant to be legendary, but was a total disaster

This could have been incredible, but it was an absolute flop

Metal Hammer

“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

Metal Hammer

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Metal Hammer

“Although I won’t be performing again, I’ve already got an idea for a new album”: 11 things we learned from Ozzy Osbourne’s new memoir, Last Rites

From an unfinished solo album to drinking with André The Giant, these are the most surprising things we read in Ozzy’s posthumous book

Metal Hammer

“It was prophetic. Right after that exploded, Limp Bizkit, all of these groups, was doing what was being done on that record”: This 1993 action movie was a bomb. But it produced one of the most revolutionary soundtracks of the decade

Box office bomb, killer soundtrack

Metal Hammer

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

Metal Hammer

"I was physically frightened: 'What danger does it pose to me and my family?!'" Tom Morello on how Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath changed his life

Rage Against The Machine's mercurial guitarist helped curate the Back To The Beginning spectacular. It was a job he'd been training for his whole life

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Louder

"Everyone in Olivia’s band is a huge Turnstile fan. Olivia herself is a huge fan." Arianna Powell is the guitar hero bringing rock 'n' roll to Olivia Rodrigo's live shows, and Gen Z are loving her for it

Arianna Powell is the guitar hero 2025 needs

BANG Premier

Kneecap hit back at Disturbed's David Draiman after he blasted Tom Morello for supporting the rap trio

Kneecap have scolded Disturbed's David Draiman for picking on Tom Morello for backing the Irish rap trio.

BANG Premier

Disturbed frontman David Draiman blasts Tom Morello for supporting Kneecap

Disturbed frontman David Draiman has blasted Tom Morello as “shameful” for his support of Kneecap, who have been advocating for the people of Palestine.

MusicRadar

“We set out to not just create the greatest day in the history of heavy metal…”: Black Sabbath’s final Back to The Beginning mega-gig just raised £140 million for charity

Great bands a great show and a great amount of money for some great causes

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s my final encore’: Ozzy Osbourne to perform for last time at Birmingham show

Saturday’s 10-hour concert will reunite original lineup of Black Sabbath and feature a multitude of metal bands

Metal Hammer

“No government on stolen land should have the power to decide who is 'legal' and who is 'illegal', or who lives and who dies." Rage Against The Machine slam US politicians over "racist terror" caused by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) raids

RATM hit out at politicians who've created a climate of fear among immigrants to the US

Euronews

What are the 20 most controversial album covers of all time?

Don’t judge an album by its cover... Easier said than done for some. Following the controversy surrounding the album image for Sabrina Carpenter’s new album, we look at the most controversial album artworks which landed the artists in hot water with the censors. And, in some cases, the taste police.

1 2 3 4

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.