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Alternative-Metal group formed in Los Angeles, California USA, in 1991,
with Zach de la Rocha on vocals,
Tom Morello on guitar, Tim Commerford on bass and Brad Wilk on drums.
They emerged as a socialist band and their protest music is a fusion of
Metal Punk and Hip Hop.
The band first public performance, was in Orange County; followed in
1992 a self-released, 12-song cassette, the tape won the band a deal with
Epic and before the year's end, they released their self-titled debut
album which hit #45 on The Billboard Top 200 chart and by the time was
certified double platinum for sales of more than 2 million copies; the
album was also certified platinum in Canada, U.K. and in many other European
countries.
After a string of benefit concerts, co-headlining tours with House
Of Pain and Cypress Hill, the
quartet re-emerged with its second effort, "Evil Empire", in
the spring of 1996, the record shot to #1 on The Billboard 200 chart and
in fall 1997 was certified double platinum; its lead single, "Bulls
On Parade", peaked at #11 on Modern Rock chart and "Tire Me"
won their first Grammy for Best Metal Performance.
In late 1997 the band released the self-titled VHS-video set which collected
concert footage, non-album songs and uncensored versions of music videos
as well as a bonus studio-CD single with the rendition of Bruce Springsteen's
"The Ghost Of Tom Joad", the track entered the top 40 of the
Billboard's Rock charts.
The following year, Rage recorded a new song for the soundtrack of the
film "Godzilla", "No Shelter" hit the top 30 of The
Modern Rock Tracks chart.
The group followed up with 1999's "The Battle Of Los Angeles",
their third studio-album went straight to #1 on The Billboard 200 chart,
its main single "Guerrilla Radio", after reached #6 on The Modern
Rock chart, won Best Hard Rock Performance at the 43rd Grammy Awards;
another single off of the CD, "Sleep Now In The Fire", became
a Modern Rock top 10 hit.
They charted again in late summer of 2000 with the CD-single "Testify"
which reached the #16 on Modern Rock list.
When Zach de la Rocha announced
his departure from the band, later that year, the rest of Rage issued
the covers album "Renegades", the set reached the #14 in U.S.
Top 200 chart and spawned the Modern Rock top 10 hit "Renegades Of
Funk"; a second single cut, "How I Could Just Kill A Man",
made top 40 in the same chart.
The next year, Morello, Wilk, and Commerford with former Soundgarden
frontman Chris Cornell started the
supergroup Audioslave.
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