I don't assume a band are political just because they have loud guitars and angsty lyrics. Rage have taken musical direct action against institutions of capitalism like Wall St (see the video to Sleep Now in the Fire) and in support of protests against free trade summits, where they played free concerts to the protestors against the wishes of summit organisers and local authorities.

Debates like this a few years ago led me to do some thinking about what bands like Rage could do as an alternative to distributing their music through a corporate label. The results was a proposal for a network of independent sound centres which I have updated an posted to the newswire:
indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/74873/index.php

Strypey