Sleep now in the fire music video5/31/2023 ![]() That year ‘Sleep Now in the Fire’ lost out to Limp Bizkit’s ‘Break Stuff’, but that’s not what I’m here to talk about today. It’s been a solid sixteen years since Rage Against The Machine blessed the world with ‘Sleep Now in the Fire’, a song whose music video was nominated in the year 2000 for ‘Best Rock Video’ at the MTV Video Music Awards, back when MTV Awards shows used to not be complete piles of dog shit. The money shot you’re looking for in this video is at the 1min04sec mark, and we’ll get to talking about why this is significant down below. But we’ll happily see them wherever they play.Way back in November of 1999 the band Rage Against The Machine released their album ‘The Battle of Los Angeles’, an album which carried the track ‘Sleep Now in the Fire’, quite possibly one of the best songs ever produced to listen to while lifting and/or doing cardio. Much like the band, many of us aren’t as young as we used to be and an arena show would be a nice change of pace. Whatever the reason, we are thrilled they are back and hope they play at least a few non-festival dates so we can see them without standing in a field for three days. It’s also possible that he hasn’t pulled in a ton of money since the last reunion and the offers got too big to ignore. He may have agreed to a Rage reunion because next year is a critical election and he wants a forum to voice his views. Rumors of a completed solo album surface every few years, but by this point it’s taken longer to record than even Chinese Democracy. The Rage frontman once again vanished from view once the group went on hiatus again in 2011. When young people decide to take action they can make what’s seemingly impossible, possible.” (Here’s video of “Sleep Now in the Fire” from the London victory party.) It says more about the spontaneous action taken by young people throughout the UK to topple this very sterile pop monopoly. “We want to thank everyone that participated in this incredible, organic, grass-roots campaign. “We’re very very ecstatic and excited about the song reaching the number one spot,” de la Rocha said in a statement. It was dubbed The Rage Factory Victory Party because fans of the band pulled a pretty amazing stunt the previous Christmas where they made the band’s 1993 classic “Killing in the Name” the Number One song on the Christmas-week chart as opposed to the latest offering from The X Factor, a singing show that had dominated the Christmas chart for years. ![]() One of their most memorable reunion gigs took place in London’s Finsbury Park on June 6th, 2010. ![]() ![]() It wrapped up July 30th, 2011, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The reunion didn’t generate a single new song, but the band did play quite a few shows, focused largely on highly lucrative overseas festivals. It was 2007 and the group had been MIA since their acrimonious split seven years earlier - “Our decision-making process has completely failed,” Zack de la Rocha said - and during that time the frontman was largely off the grid as his bandmates carried on as Audioslave with Chris Cornell at the helm. The last Rage reunion also began at Coachella. The rather stunning news came out last week on their newly created Instagram account, but the members of the band have yet to publicly comment on it. Rage Against The Machine are gearing up for a 2020 reunion tour that will feature, at the very least, performances at both Coachella weekends in April and shows in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona in the days building up to the festival.
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