PROPHETS OF RAGE
THEY KNOW THEIR ENEMIES... AND THEY’RE NOT AFRAID TO STAND UP TO THEM
How does it Feel to be Here today?
tom morello (guitars): “It feels great, because we love metal and we love hammers, and the Spirt Of Hammer award is for breaking new ground and going against the grain, and we’ve done that in our music and our politics our entire career. We do feel proud to embody the spirit of Hammer.”
How does it feel to play in the current global climate?
“We have a song out now called Unfuck The World, and the world is fucked, so it’s up to us and you and the readers of Metal Hammer to get to unfucking.”
What can hammer readers to do unfuck the world?
“What people have done throughout history is where they work, where they go to school, to stand up for what they believe in. That’s what our music’s been about for 25 years now, and in a world where there’s great inequality, there’s injustice, there’s potential environmental disaster... people who like metal have a lot of strong opinions, and there are people who can gather in large numbers to do great things, and now it might be time for them to start unfucking the world.”
Prophets of rage is A new project. How Long do you think it’LL go on for?
“There’s no expiration date. We’ve just begun. We have a record that’s coming out September 15, and we’ve played in front of about a million fans around the world already.
The good news is that it feels as exciting to play together and the rock is as hard as it ever has. People go absolutely apeshit when we play, and that’s something we’re very grateful for.”