Despite their willingness to headline any number of festivals, the re-united Rage Against The Machine will not be heading back to the studio. Speaking with Billboard, guitarist Tom Morello revealed his only recording plans are for his Nightwatchman project.

When pressed on the topic of a new RATM album, he replied, “There are no plans for that. We’ve had a wonderful year and a half of playing shows, and I don’t see any reason to not play more shows. The thing is there’s only so many hours in the musical day, and mine are very occupied right now.”

It’s an attractive theory that with Barack Obama headed for the White House, there’s now less for Rage to rage against. However, Morello isn’t sitting back with a celebratory brew just yet.

“On one hand I’m hopeful a new day has dawned,” he mused to Billboard, “but on the other hand I really do believe that the system under which we live is fundamentally a one corporate party state with two right wings. We still have two unjust wars, a horrendous financial crisis, a gross disparity between rich and poor and the environment sliding into the abyss.”