- No-Hit Wonder: At least in the States; While they did well on rock charts and their albums sold millions, they never made it to the Top 40, closest being "Guerrila Radio" hitting 69. (surprisingly, in the UK they had a #1, on Christmas no less, following a campaign to stop a streak of The X Factor winners topping the charts on the holiday)
- What Could Have Been: They're a hardcore left-wing rock band who broke up right after the election of George W. Bush. They reformed, just in time for Bush to leave office.
- Lampshaded hilariously by The Onion with "Where are you now, when we need you most, Rage Against the Machine?
" - Arguably the same applies during the term of Donald Trump, with the band unofficially parting ways again in 2012. Sure, Prophets of Rage exists, but it's just not the same, is it? Fortunately in November 2019, the band confirmed that they would be reforming in the following year in time for the presidential elections.
- They started writing an untitled collaboration with tool for the soundtrack to the film Judgment Night, then both bands decided they weren't happy with it and left it unreleased. A very rough demo would surface as a bootleg - much of the verse lyrics are mixed too quietly to be intelligible and may have been placeholders anyway. RATM apparently did like the riff they used for the song's instrumental outro though; they reused it as the chorus for "New Millennium Homes".
- Brad Wilk was strongly considered to play drums for Pearl Jam after they'd recorded Ten and were still known as Mookie Blaylock. Dave Abbruzzese ended up getting the gig.
- Tom Morello says if he'd had his way, the band would've released albums every six months the way KISS or Led Zeppelin did in the 70s. RATM would end up taking four years between each album before splitting.
- Lampshaded hilariously by The Onion with "Where are you now, when we need you most, Rage Against the Machine?
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