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In 1991, following the break-up of guitarist Tom Morello's former band Lock Up, former Lock Up drummer Jon Knox encouraged Tim Commerford and Zack de la Rocha to jam with Morello as he was looking to start a new group.[9] Morello soon contacted Brad Wilk, who had unsuccessfully auditioned for both Lock Up[9] and the band that would later become Pearl Jam.[10] This lineup named themselves Rage Against the Machine, after a song de la Rocha had written for his former underground hardcore punk band Inside Out (also to be the title of the unrecorded Inside Out full-length album).[9] Kent McClard, with whom Inside Out was associated, coined the phrase "rage against the machine" in a 1989 article in his zine No Answers.[11]
Rage Against the Machine's own planned reunion tour was also canceled in the wake of the pandemic, which, in many ways, is a tragedy in itself. As noted by Kerrang, critics have always sneered at RATM's ongoing struggle to use music to institute real social change. But the band never stopped backing up their ideals and their art with real-world action, no matter what tragedies and challenges they were thrown against.
Adolf Hitler was vying for world domination by 1942, but that wasn't the only fascism Woody Guthrie had on his mind. Addressing topical issues like the poll tax and Jim Crow Laws, he imagines "people of every color, marching side to side" against any and all forms of oppressive hatred. Considering the message "this machine kills fascists" was scrawled across Guthrie's guitar, it's safe to say the artist meant every word.
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