On May 19, 2020, the band announced the cancellation of the tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
They were also due to headline the Reading and Leeds Festivals , which would have been Rage Against the Machine’s first UK appearance in 10 years, but it was announced on May 12, 2020, that the festival was canceled.
On May 11, 2020, Williams teased a potential return to a more guitar-driven sound on the band’s sixth album, commenting, “We’ve found ourselves listening to a lot of older music that we grew up being inspired by.”
In May 2020, speaking on the podcast Conan Neutron’s Protonic Reversal , Lori Barbero said that there was very little chance of future reunions from the band.
In May, Bleachers was featured on Carly Rae Jepsen ‘s song “Comeback” which was the first official release of the band in nearly two years.
However, Christian revealed in May 2020 that they had reversed course and were in the process of recording new music.
In May 2020, Soundgarden countersued Vicky claiming that she engaged in “fraudulent inducement” by allegedly attempting to use the revenue from the January 2019 “I Am the Highway: A Tribute to Chris Cornell” concert, which was meant to go to the Chris and Vicky Cornell Foundation, for “personal purposes for…
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On May 1, 2020, the band announced that they had rescheduled the remaining dates of the reunion tour to 2021.
In May 2020, the band released a new single, ” The Shift “. On July 10, they released another song, “The Unknown”, and announced their newest album, Violent Allies , which was released on September 18.
Fuktronic , an electronic music collaboration with Mindless Self Indulgence ‘s Jimmy Urine was released in May 2020, after the duo released a sample on SoundCloud . Fuktronic is described as “the team of Serj Tankian and Jimmy Urine from Mindless Self Indulgence, making a soundtrack for the ultimate British…
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