Inside Out existed from August 1988 to roughly fall of 1991, releasing a single
7-inch EP,
No Spiritual Surrender, in 1990, on
Revelation Records (later converted to six song
CD). They played up and down the
West Coast and even toured the
East Coast once before their breakup in 1991. Many of their songs' themes are spiritual, but not necessarily religious. They had written material for a second record, to be titled
Rage Against the Machine (hence the name for
de la Rocha's
next band), but the band broke up shortly after their guitarist,
Vic DiCara, left the band to become a
Hare Krishna monk. Vic later started
108, a Krishna-themed hardcore band, and briefly joined
Burn, playing guitar in both. Inside Out performed on California radio station
KXLU, showcasing a number of new songs. The quality of the recording on the show, while adequate for a radio broadcast, is not on par with that of the band's EP recording. Copies of their on-air radio broadcast and various live sets have circulated the tape trading underground and file sharing world for years as popular items. In early 2013, a high quality version of one of their final shows from May 1991 surfaced and was remastered and made publicly available. Lyrics to the previously unreleased songs "Rage Against the Machine" and "Darkness of Greed" were deciphered, and together they give new context to the early beginnings of
Rage Against the Machine. Some of their songs focus on issues in society and in the USA (Redemption, Burning Fight) and some are personal to members of the band (Sacrifice, By a Thread). In October 2016, a VHS video of a 1990 Inside Out show in Reading, PA surfaced and was made available online. The Reading, PA video includes a number of [Inside Out]'s unreleased material. "Burning Fight", "Deathbed" (which would go on to be a 108 song), Undertone (which features the "wake up" refrain used in Rage Against the Machine's song "
Wake Up"), "Empty Days", "Redemption", "Blind Oppressor", "Turn" and "Face". ==Remixes==