Rage Against the Machine

Rage on!

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CLEVELAND, Ohio - Rage Against the Machine, one of the most politically charge bands to ever grace the Earth, is planning something and it could work its way to Cleveland during the Republican National Convention in July.

Last night, the band launched prophetsofrage.com, a new website with a countdown clock that ends June 1 when presumably an announcement will be made (the site has since crashed). Once you put in your email address the phrase "Clear the way for prophets of rage" appears, which is from a Public Enemy song.

Posters have also popped up in Los Angeles promoting prophetsofrage.com, while the hashtag #TakeThePowerBack is trending online. Overwhelming traffic caused the website to crash this morning.

Fans have been speculating the most likely scenario is a summer tour, which would be Rage's first performance since 2011. Given the posters in Rage's native Los Angeles, a tour could start there.

But the real question is: Will Rage Against the Machine take the power back to 2008, when it performed at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minn. during the Republican National Convention.

Back then, Rage members Zach de la Rocha and Tom Morello also organized an anti-RNC rally the day before the convention on the streets of St. Paul. This came after Rage Against the Machine performed during the Tent State Music Festival in August during the Democratic National Convention, which led to a march in support of Iraq Veterans Against the War.

If Rage does tour this summer, it's hard to imagine it not involving the Republican National Convention or at least a huge anti-Donald Trump sentiment. After all, the band did predict/mock a Trump presidency during its "Sleep Now in the Fire" music video in 1999.

Just noticed this @realDonaldTrump cameo in the @RATM "Sleep Now In The Fire" video...which came out in 1999... pic.twitter.com/lxqPZ0EwH1 — Aleksander Lee (@Aleksander_Lee) May 18, 2016

As for the band's opinion on this year's presidential race, Morello tweeted out in anger when CNN ran a headline "Trump Rages Against the GOP Machine."

The guitarist has a history of laying the smack down on Republican politicians. In 2012, when Paul Ryan claimed Rage was one of his favorite bands, Morello wrote an op-ed for Rolling Stone saying, "Paul Ryan is the embodiment of the machine our music rages against."

More recently, this past December, Morello posted a "Daily News" cartoon on Instagram showing Donald Trump beheading the Statue or Liberty.