Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Inside Out - Burning Fight


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If you ever listened to Rage Against The Machine and thought to yourself "Man, Zack de la Rocha is intense, he should have been in a hardcore band", then you wouldn't be far off, because he was. Prior to starting the now legendary hip hop influenced rock band, former Hardstance guitar player Zack de la Rocha formed Inside Out with future 108 mastermind, Vic DiCara in 1988 (while Tom Morello was covering Living Colour and RHCP).

Their lone studio contribution is 1990's No Spiritual Surrender, a 6 song message to the hardcore community that preaches social responsibility and the search for spirituality and adolescent identity. DiCara left the band during the writing of the band's second album (titled Rage Against The Machine, gasp!) to become a Hare Krishna monk and later would form the excellent metallic hardcore band, 108 and play guitar in Shelter with Ray Cappo.

"Burning Fight" is the band's sound embodied, hard riffing from DiCara with the precise hard hitting drums of Chain of Strength's Chris Bratton. de la Rocha's lyrics hammering home the idea that no matter the resistance of individuals or society as a whole to never give up the battle for what's right, a message that he has never ceased to preach his entire career. 

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