10 Music Genre Switchups That Made Absolutely No Sense

The entire rock scene were dealt a heavy blow when Rage Against the Machine decided to call it quits. Coming right off of the US election, it felt like the perfect time for some real protest music, only for Zack de la Rocha to find his own path without the help of his friends in the band. So where to now? How about getting a rock singer and making some of the most straight ahead rock you can think of?

While Audioslave's first few records are amazing, it's hard to even make sense of this combination in your brain at first. Even with Chris Cornell's amazing pedigree as the singer behind Soundgarden, Rage always seemed to work because of Zack's lyrics, being the ringleader who made the rest of the band work around him. Now that there was a new man at the front, this was the opportunity for the rest of Rage to earn their road stripes as rockers, with songs that sounded closer to the '70s rock scene that they had loved as kids.

The artsiness of their sound didn't really go anywhere though, as Tom Morello continued to push himself as a creative force, whether that meant bringing in different effects like a digital whammy pedal or taking a solo that was comprised of using nothing but the toggle switch on his guitar. Although Rage operated under a specific formula to get their songs off the ground, the guys didn't even need a formula to make something amazing.