The American group Rage Against the Machine, who became known in the 1990s for their mixture of funk, rap and metal – thanks in particular to the title Killing in the Name – announced the cancellation of his European and British tour for health reasons. This will end prematurely on August 11, 12 and 14 at Madison Square Garden (New York). The concert scheduled for Rock en Seine on August 30 has been canceled.
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Many fans were waiting for the return of Rage Against The Machine : the mythical group of the 1990s, which had announced its return in 2019 after ten years of absence, will not play at the end of the festival Rock en Seine next August 30. As a result, the festival organizers simply decided to cancel the day of August 30, during which Run The Jewels, Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes, Ausgang and others were also scheduled to perform. The concert promised to be historic, however, since the group behind the album The Battle of Los Angeles (1999), disbanded in 2000 after the release of their last album (Renegades), reformed for the first time in 2007 and ignited Rock en Seine in August 2008, the date of its last visit to France. The August 30 concert was the only date scheduled in France.
A long-awaited return
The European and British tour of Rage Against the Machine, which was to pass through Belgium, Germany, Spain and Switzerland among others, has been canceled due to the health problems of singer Zack de la Rocha, injured in the leg on July 11 during a concert in Chicago, in full performance of the piece Bullet in the Head, while the group’s North American tour, planned since 2019 and postponed many times due to the pandemic, had just begun. Prior to this, the band had last been seen performing in 2011. United States, a supergroup called Prophets of Rage with members of Public Enemy et Cypress Hill.
True to its spirit of protest and criticism of United States politics (in the midst of the financial crisis, the group had the New York Stock Exchange closed during the filming of the clip Sleep now in the Fireshot by Michael Moore), the rap metal outfit recently railed against the repeal of Roe v. Wade and had announced a donation of nearly $500,000 to associations in Wisconsin and Illinois defending the right to abortion. Rage Against the Machine’s joint tour with the duo Run The Jewels – recently heard on the new track from Black Thought and producer Danger Mouse – is still scheduled for 2023, pending a possible rescheduling of this expected European tour of long time.
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