Interestingly enough, “Clear the way for the prophets of rage” is also a lyric from Public Enemy’s song “Prophets of Rage”.
Advertisement
“Now overloaded due to the amount of web traffic it’s receiving, the site also includes the hashtag “#TakeThePowerBack” with a raised fist logo, an icon Rage Against the Machine is synonymous with, according to Spin.
New website Prophets Of Rage has launched, showing a countdown that will end on June 1.
Rage Against The Machine have something planned.
Pitchfork also points out that posters featuring the raised fist image associated with Rage Against the Machine and the Prophets of Rage website are springing up around the Los Angeles area, which is the band’s hometown. The hashtag is the name of a Rage Against the Machine song.
Advertisement
Public Enemy frontman Chuck D has gotten in on the foreshadowing, too, tweeting out videos of Rage performing in 2010, without adding comment. In 2011, they announced their own festival L.A. Rising, and in 2014 drummer Brad Wilk said that that show may have been their final performance. The band have been hinting at a reunion of sorts in recent interviews, bassist Tim Commerford telling Rolling Stone, “We are still a band, and we still might play again”. “We don’t have anything scheduled right now, but you never know what the future will bring”.
