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songs. Yes, the GRAMMY® award- After a series of unjustified attacks these new songs. The songs are titled the band had and do something to help this Humanoidz.” that “We’re probably the only rock band linger from the past, we need to that has governments as enemies, the only put them aside because this is rock band that’s at war, so I wrote these bigger than System Of A Down songs to boost the morale of our troops and and bigger than all of us.....we Armenians around the world.” need to do something to support our people.” The catalyst for these new songs is the new conflict between Artsakh and After a conference call Azerbaijan, and Azerbaijan being aided by between the band, they all came Turkey in what has been described as the “ to the same conclusion, somegreatest violence the region has endured in thing needed to be done. The 26 years”. In addition to writing both the only way for them to do this was music and lyrics to these two songs, through their music…. new Malakian also produced them as well. Fans music. of the band have been wondering just what it would take to get System Of A Down “The aggression and back into the studio to record again and injustice being perpetrated against now all their questions have been answered, the Armenian people in Artsakh it took a war. For the last 15 years, the and Armenia by Azerbaijan and band has been unable to come to terms on Turkey is a human rights violation and a war crime,” said Serj Tankian. “All of us in System realize this is an existential battle for our people, so this is very personal for us. What we need right now is for the world to put politics aside and support Armenia by sanctioning Turkey and Azerbaijan and recognizing Artsakh.”

In addition to releasing the two songs, the band has also released a video for the “Protect The Land. The video shares footage of the ground forces fighting in Artsakh along with recent footage of the protests that are taking place there now. As all System Of A Down videos have been taken care of before, bassist Shavo Odadjian was the executive producer of the project and assembled all the artwork for the project. “I wanted to show the unification of our people around the world for one

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It Took An Attack Against numbers,” he said, “so we brought together people from all ages and professions who believe in and are fighting for that same Armenians To Bring It About, cause. It’s one thing to come up with an idea, but to see it come alive as happened with this video, has been just incredible.”

But The Wait Is Over Odadjian also tells us that in regard to the band reconvening for the productions

System Of A Down of the two songs and the video, “It was such a pleasure for us to be together in the studio again, very comforting and natural, Release 2 Brand New Songs like no time had passed at all.” System Of A Down is Daron By Tank how they should record new music. It’s not Malakian/guitars, vocals, Serj Tankian/ After a 15-year hiatus in recording, that anyone was particularly mad at each vocals, Shavo Odadjian/bass, and John

System Of A Down is back with two new other, they just couldn’t put together a plan. Dolmayan/drums. winning band is back. Of course, it took against Artsakh and Azerbaijan by You can check out the music video attacks on Artsakh and Armenia to bring the Azerbaijan and Turkey, Daron said enough for “Protect The Land” at https://youtu.be/

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“Protect The Land” and “Genocidal cause. https://systemofadown.com “I texted,” said Malakian, Clockwise, from Top Left: Daron Malakian, John Dolmayan,

Guitarist and vocalist Daron Malakian wrote the songs. Daron tells us “no matter how we feel about each other, no matter what issues Shavo Odadjian, Serj Tankian Photo Credit: Armen Keleshian common cause, illustrating the power in

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