Turnstile Perform Inside Out’s “Burning Fight” in the BBC Live Lounge

Turnstile returned to the BBC Live Lounge this week, delivering a cover that pulls their sound back toward hardcore’s blunt force. A few months after reimagining the Stone Roses’ “I Wanna Be Adored” in the same room, Brendan Yates and the band chose “Burning Fight” by Inside Out, the short-lived California group that featured Zack de la Rocha before Rage Against the Machine.

Inside Out operated from 1988 to 1991 and left behind only a 7-inch EP, No Spiritual Surrender, issued by Revelation Records. Mark Hayworth, who played bass in Hardstance and later Gorilla Biscuits, anchored the rhythm section. A second release, titled Rage Against the Machine, was planned but the band dissolved before it materialized. That abandoned name would, of course, carry forward into something far larger.

Turnstile’s take on “Burning Fight” doesn’t try to modernize the track or soften its edges. The performance lands inside a specific lineage, one that connects Baltimore hardcore to a brief, volatile moment in the late ’80s straight edge scene. The choice matters less as nostalgia than as a reminder of how the genre’s urgency can resurface in unexpected spaces like the Live Lounge.

Both the BBC session recording and the original Inside Out version are now circulating online.