Rage Towards the Machine had been pressured to cancel a number of dates of their reunion tour in 2022 after frontman Zack de la Rocha severed his left Achilles tendon, and no rescheduled exhibits had been introduced. The band’s drummer Brad Wilk has now provided some sobering information for followers in a new assertion. “I need to let you already know that RATM (Tim, Zack, Tom and I) is not going to be touring or taking part in reside once more,” he wrote. “I’m sorry for these of you who’ve been ready for this to occur. I actually want it was.” Pitchfork has reached out to the band’s administration for extra data.
At the moment’s assertion from Wilk follows a March 2023 interview with Tom Morello, who was requested straight about the potential for rescheduled Rage dates. He clarified that your complete band would come collectively for a press release. “If there are Rage exhibits, if there are usually not Rage exhibits, you’ll hear from the band,” Morello mentioned. “I have no idea. When there’s information, it’s going to come from a collective assertion from the band. There isn’t any information.”
The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame on the ceremony in late 2023. Morello was the solely member to attend, hinting in his speech that the opposite members of Rage weren’t enthused in regards to the induction the way in which he was.
Rage Towards the Machine first introduced their reunion tour dates in 2019, which had been then delayed a number of occasions on account of the pandemic. When the tour lastly did start in July 2022, de la Rocha sustained the leg damage that pressured the eventual cancellation of European and North American dates throughout 2023. Final 12 months, the band’s bassist Tim Commerford revealed that he has been dwelling with prostate most cancers.
