Nearly two years after wrapping up the North American 'Public Service Announcement Tour' and cancelling a European trek, as frontman Zack de la Rocha had severed his left Achilles tendon, Rage Against The Machine drummer Brad Wilk confirmed that the band's reunion is over, clarifying they have no plans for any more live shows or tours. This is the third time in a row that Rage Against The Machine have broken up or gone on an indefinite hiatus.

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Rage Against The Machine were forced to cancel all European dates scheduled for August and September due to health problems of vocalist Zack de la Rocha. The frontman injured his leg last month and has since performed seated.

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Previously unofficial news on Rage Against The Machine coming back to the world stages after more than 10 years became official as of yesterday. The group will embark on extensive tour of North America this spring and summer (including some of headlining festival appearances), as well as couple of European shows in August & September.

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Well, it seems to be true, Rage Against The Machine are returning in 2020! With the announcement of couple of US shows in March and April, the group was also confirmed for Coachella 2020 in Indio, CA. More official details to follow.

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Def Leppard and Rage Against The Machine are among the nominees for next year's Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame class. Rage Against The Machine are nominated for a second year in a row. Also nominated are Radiohead, MC5, Stevie Nicks, The Cure, Devo, Janet Jackson, Kraftwerk, LL Cool J, Roxy Music, Todd Rundgren, John Prine, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan and The Zombies.

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The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame has announced its 19 possible inductees for next year's class and legendary metallers Judas Priest and Rage Against The Machine are among them. The list also includes Radiohead, Bon Jovi, Depeche Mode, Kate Bush, the Cars, Dire Straits, Eurythmics, J. Geils Band, LL Cool J, MC5, the Meters, the Moody Blues, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Nina Simone, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Link Wray and the Zombies.

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It has been a while since Rage Against The Machine released a live album (or any album for that matter) but that is about to change. On September 11th, 2015, Eagle Rock Entertainment releases Live At Finsbury Park by Rage Against The Machine. This is a simultaneous release on DVD, Blu-ray and digital formats. For now, you can watch the anthem "Killing In The Name" taken from the show below and bang your head.

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"Auto Logic", a demo track from iconic funk/alternative metal band Rage Against The Machine is now available for streaming at PureVolume. The track will see its first official commercial release on the band's upcoming 20th anniversary reissue of their self-titled debut, XX.

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Quite cool isn't it.

The Christmas number one is a big thing over here. Every year, even if you didn't normally listen to the chart show, people would tune in on their radio to find out what the UK Christmas number one was.

Since 2005 however, Simon Cowell and his popular TV show The X Factor has stolen Christmas and the number one spot with the TV show's winner's single. This year the show was won a week ago by a young lad called Joe McElderry and has released his first single "The Climb" (originally Miley Cyrus) in the hopes of fulfilling the X Factor tradition and be the fifth X Factor winner to steal the Christmas number one spot.

To some people this has taken some of the magic away from Christmas, and so a Facebook group has been campaigning to get people to buy none other than Rage Against The Machine's 1992 track "Killing In The Name" in the hope of getting it to the Christmas number one spot and being the "David to the X Factor's Goliath" as Tom Morello has commented.

It started as an unrealistic idea to protest against Simon Cowell and his stranglehold on the UK charts, but soon captured the nation's attention and right now the group currently has nearly one million members! The Christmas number one battle is back, and has been one of the top national stories all week.

The Rage Against The Machine song was at a slight disadvantage by only being available via download, where Joe's single was in every shop in the country as well as available for download sales.

And we did it! The people of the UK have made themselves heard as we made Rage Against The Machine and "Killing In The Name" Christmas number one 2009 and stopped Simon Cowell's run of the charts he has had for four years.

The Facebook campaigners can be proud of themselves for bringing the rap/funk metal anthem back into the spotlight and certainly making headline news tomorrow morning. History has been made this evening, the people have spoken!

Tom Morello has promised a free headlining Rage Against The Machine show in the UK next year to celebrate. Zack de la Rocha has commented that the money made is going to be going to a shelter charity, and confirms the band will do a free show here next year.

Also making a one-off appearance in the top ten was Journey, with their 1981 hit "Don't Stop Believin'" at number nine after a similar, smaller campaign to stop The X Factor single reaching number one.

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