When Rage Towards the Machine canceled their remaining 2022 and 2023 tour dates resulting from singer Zack de la Rocha’s torn achilles tendon, followers probably assumed that the exhibits could be made up as soon as he healed. Nonetheless, in a brand new interview, guitarist Tom Morello means that the way forward for RATM is unsure, and that there’s an opportunity the exhibits might by no means be rescheduled.
After a few delays as a result of pandemic, Rage Towards the Machine lastly kicked off their reunion tour final summer season, with de la Rocha severely injuring himself throughout the second present of the outing.
Whereas the singer soldiered on to play the rest of their North American summer season run whereas seated onstage, RATM introduced that their scheduled 2022 UK/European exhibits and 2023 North American dates had been canceled to permit him time to heal.
Rolling Stone simply caught up with Morello for a brand new interview wherein the guitarist tried to set the file straight over complaints about purported vaccine necessities and the worth of tickets for RATM’s tour dates. However the dialog took a flip when Morello left the way forward for the band doubtful, regardless of many makes an attempt by interviewer Andy Greene to get a definitive reply.
Requested merely if the band will resume touring as soon as de la Rocha is healed, Morello responded, “We’ll see. If there’s to be any extra exhibits, we are going to announce it as a band. I don’t know. I do know as a lot as you do, actually. Proper now we’re in time of therapeutic.”
He continued, “If there by no means is one other present, I feel that this tour made the case. It’s not about how a lot you tour. It’s about what it’s like throughout these moments while you do. Rage Towards the Machine has performed 19 exhibits up to now 12 years. And the resonance of these 19 exhibits really feel, in speaking to followers, like these had been historic occasions that furthers the concept of what that band is like dwell onstage.”
When pressed on whether or not the band was on hiatus, Morello professed, “Rage Towards the Machine is just like the ring in Lord of the Rings. It drives males mad. It drives journalists mad. It drives file trade individuals mad. They need it. They need the factor, and so they’re pushed mad. If there are Rage exhibits, if there are usually not Rage exhibits, you’ll hear from the band.”
Not backing down, Greene requested once more in regards to the 38 exhibits that had been canceled, with Morello cryptically answering, “Do Rage Towards the Machine followers all over the world should see the band? Sure. After all they do. Would the instances profit from a culturally, spiritually, rocking-ly, potent band like Rage being onstage? After all. I don’t have information for you on that. I apologize. There’s nothing inside in our discussions that claims both sure or no.”
The back-and-forth went on and on between Greene and Morello, with the reporter finally asking the musician if RATM are a band or had been a band. To that, Morello affirmed, “I’d check with the official Rage Towards the Machine assertion on that time, wherein there’s none!”
If Rage Towards the Machine are certainly on hiatus, it’s not the primary time an harm halted the band’s actions. Again in 2000, RATM had been speculated to embark on a co-headlining tour with Beastie Boys. Nonetheless, that outing was postponed and finally canceled after Beastie Boy Mike D significantly injured his shoulder whereas using his bicycle. Not too lengthy after that, Rage broke up, and didn’t play one other present till 2007.
Picture Gallery – Rage Towards the Machine at Chicago’s United Heart (click on to enlarge and scroll by):
