Tom Morello has released a new anti-ICE song.
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“The only thing we should be deporting is injustice.”
While perhaps best known as a member of Rage Against the Machine, Tom Morello was also the guitarist for Audioslave – a supergroup consisting of Morello, Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell, and Morello’s Rage bandmates Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk.
Although they disbanded in 2007 (briefly reuniting in 2017 just months before Cornell’s death), Morello keeps the band’s legacy alive, performing their music during his solo concerts.
In a recent interview with The Strombo Show, Morello reflected on his relationship with Audioslave’s music and how he uses it to honor the late Chris Cornell.
“It’s been really, really gratifying,” Morello said of his current solo tour. “I was inspired. I was inspired in a way by Jack White. I saw him play a couple of years ago, and he’s a guy like me, who’s been in 15 different bands and had a solo career. And it all felt like him. He played stuff from The White Stripes to all of his different bands. From The Dead Weather to his solo stuff. And it felt like a real cohesive whole.
“And I thought, ‘Why should I sort of undermine any part of my career?’ It honors all of it. I love and respect the Rage Against the Machine stuff, and people need it now more than ever.
“I miss Chris Cornell every day, and playing those Audioslave songs and bringing his spirit to life on stage — [that] is something that’s very, very deeply meaningful to me.”
He continued, speaking about the solo music he put out under the moniker The Nightwatchman:
“The Nightwatchman stuff has been near and dear to my heart. And those records, those solo acoustic records, again, I feel like maybe [are] the truest expression of myself, and now I’m in the middle of making what is really my first ever solo rock record, right? And so, it really ties it all together.”
