On October 18, 2000, De la Rocha announced that he had left the band. He said, “I feel that it is now necessary to leave Rage because our decision-making process has completely failed. It is no longer meeting the aspirations of all four of us collectively as a band, and from my perspective, has undermined our artistic and political ideal.” Morello said, “There was so much squabbling over everything, “and I mean everything . We would even have fist fights over whether our T-shirts should be mauve or camouflaged! It was ridiculous. We were patently political, internally combustible. It was ugly for a long time.” De la Rocha’s departure was voted the “shittiest thing” of 2000 in the Kerrang! readers’ poll of that year.
De la Rocha announced departure from band
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