Turnstile have never hidden their love for hardcore’s weird, sweaty lineage, but their latest cover digs even deeper into the genre’s DNA.
For anyone unfamiliar, Inside Out weren’t just another late ’80s California hardcore band, the group famously featured a pre Rage Against The Machine Zack de la Rocha on vocals, alongside future Shelter guitarist Vic DiCara, years before his Hare Krishna-era transformation. Despite only existing briefly, the band’s influence still hangs heavy over politically charged hardcore and post-hardcore scenes decades later.
Turnstile ‘Burning Fight’ (Inside Out Cover) Live Lounge
Turnstile’s version doesn’t try to clean the song up or reinvent it, instead they lean straight into the urgency that made the original such a cult favourite, Brendan Yates sounds completely locked in here, throwing himself into the performance with the same frantic intensity that made de la Rocha such a magnetic frontman before Rage Against The Machine ever existed.
The session also featured live performances of Turnstile tracks ‘DULL’ and ‘I CARE’ (below), but it’s the Inside Out cover that’s got hardcore heads talking, there’s something fitting about one of modern hardcore’s biggest crossover success stories paying tribute to a band that helped crack open the possibilities of the genre in the first place.
Turnstile ‘Dull’ Live Lounge
Turnstile ‘I Care’ Live Lounge
This isn’t the first left field cover Turnstile have rolled out during a radio appearance lately, either, back in March, the band dropped into Australian station triple j and tackled The Stone Roses’ ‘I Wanna Be Adored’, giving the Madchester classic a hazy, distortion soaked overhaul.
As for Inside Out, rumours of a reunion still float around hardcore circles every few years, but the band have remained silent since the early ’90s. For now, this Turnstile performance might be the closest fans get to hearing those songs roar back to life in a room again (per The PRP).
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