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[shantyman]

Can't believe...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Rage Against The Machine vocalist Zack De La Rocha has completed his first solo album, a project he has been working on since first leaving the band in 2000.

A source said De La Rocha plays keyboards on the album and that the sound is a hybrid of "Led Zeppelin and Dr. Dre. Some of it has the power you'd expect from him in Rage."

De La Rocha is understood to be unsigned and mulling distribution offers.

Post-Rage, De La Rocha has recorded material with DJ Shadow, Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor and the Roots' ?uestlove, but it is unknown if any of these tracks appear on the finished album. One song with Reznor, "We Want It All," appears on the 2004 compilation "Songs and Artists that Inspired Fahrenheit 9/11."

Rage Against The Machine reunited in late April to co-headline the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in southern California and has played a handful of gigs since. The lone shows left on the band's itinerary are in late October at the Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans and the Vegoose festival in Las Vegas.

 

[Cauliflower of Love]

holy shit, about time. :lol

 

[ElectricBlue187]

i heard a solo song from him awhile back, it's just not the same without the rest of RATM

 

[ToyMachine228]

While I'll be interested in hearing it I think I'd prefer a full out Rage reunion.

 

[Jacobi]

i heard a solo song from him awhile back, it's just not the same without the rest of RATM

I liked the one with DJ Shadow

 

[Yixian]

HOLY SHIT!

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I have waited for this day for so long!

 

[michaeld]

One of the biggest whinny, hypocritical lead singers ever.
"DOWN WITH CAPITALISM"
*gets rich off of capitalism*

They do put on a good live show, I saw them open for U2 in Memphis and at Woodstock 99

 

[Patrick Bateman]

What a dumbass. Just a couple months before they reunite.

What did he do in the meantime?

 

[yacobod]

i heard a solo song from him awhile back, it's just not the same without the rest of RATM

probably because he was the worst part of RAtM

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

I liked the one with DJ Shadow

the Trent Reznor one was OK.

<3 the thread title. :lol

 

[esbern]

march of death was great.


but more led zeppelin riffs? that is the exact reason he said he left rage...b/c morello couldn't get beyond zeppelin riffs. this quote in the article might be wrong....

 

[Fun Factor]

One of the biggest whinny, hypocritical lead singers ever.
"DOWN WITH CAPITALISM"
*gets rich off of capitalism*

They do put on a good live show, I saw them open for U2 in Memphis and at Woodstock 99

He never said down with capitalism.
Exploitive & whatnot, but never specificaly said to do away with it.

 

[Izzy]

One of the biggest whinny, hypocritical lead singers ever.
"DOWN WITH CAPITALISM"

Yeah, but then he signed for Sony...


The only reason Chinese Democracy isn't out is because Axl can't be arsed...and is probably too lazy to tour to boot.

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

Yeah, but then he signed for Sony...


The only reason Chinese Democracy isn't out is because Axl can't be arsed...and is probably too lazy to tour to boot.

he's toured at least three times in support of this album (which is odd enough) so I don't think he's too lazy.

The band began the 2007 leg of the Chinese Democracy tour on June 2 in Mexico; dates in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan followed. The tour has now been completed and, as of yet, there has been no word on a follow-up tour or any more information regarding the release of the album.

 

[Izzy]

Hmmm, I didn't know that. That's strange...he actually completed the bloody tour.

 

[fistfulofmetal]

Please don't bring up Chinese Democracy, it's never going to happen.

 

[shantyman]

Yeah, but then he signed for Sony...


The only reason Chinese Democracy isn't out is because Axl can't be arsed...and is probably too lazy to tour to boot.

They just completed a multi continent world tour.

 

[super funk]

I would have been excited about this last year, but now that Rage is back together I can care less.

 

[Core407]

I hope he actually raps on some of the tracks.

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

I would have been excited about this last year, but now that Rage is back together I can care less.

you can? how much can you care less? is it a quantifiable amount, or just a gut feeling?

 

[super funk]

you can? how much can you care less? is it a quantifiable amount, or just a gut feeling?

My caring rating was once at 87.34. After they got back together it went down to 0. Cant go any lower since this scale is based on the Kelvin system.

6 months ago, his CD was the only hope from ever hearing from him again. Now that the whole band is back playing together, Zack is no longer MIA and a new album is most likely inevitable.