RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello has revealed toNME.com that certain members of the band are “not ready” to start writing and recording a new studio album.
The influential group, which disbanded in 2000 but reunited in 2007 and has played sporadic live shows ever since, will issue a deluxe edition of its classic 1992 self-titled debut on November 27, complete with unreleased demos and tons of live material.
Asked about the potential for a new album from RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, Morello said: “No plans for anything. This RAGE boxset is the first official RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE release in 12 years. We’re on a once-every-12-years pace to release something.”
When pressed to elaborate on why this is the case, Morello responded: “When bands make albums, it’s because everybody wants to, and that’s not the case with RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE at the moment. Everyone in the band gets along very well, we consider each other friends and comrades in arms, but people sometimes don’t feel ready to do it. I don’t have one minute of one day that’s not filled with music, or politics, or family. If at some point RAGE were to get it together to work more, I would be open to that, but that’s not on the table right now.”
“Rage Against The Machine XX”, as the new reissue is called, will come out in three versions: a regular single disc, a two-CD/one-DVD package, and a deluxe box set featuring the CDs, two DVDs, the album on vinyl picture disc, plus a 40-page booklet and a double-sided poster.
The first CD will feature three hard-to-find B-sides along with the original album, while the second CD will contain the rare, original RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE 1991 demo tape that helped land the group their record deal with Sony.
The first DVD will contain RAGE‘s free concert in Finsbury Park on June 2010. Also included are music videos and other live concert performance clips. The second DVD will feature RAGE‘s first public performance ever at Cal State North Ridge in October 1991, plus various rare early concert clips.
Morello told Billboard about the release, “We’re really psyched to be putting this out for the fans . . . I want to really give them a motherlode of RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE history, past and present.”
Source: www.blabbermouth.net