Right now, it doesn’t matter if this is the spark that ignites a new album or if these tracks are the last we ever hear from the band. In 2020, many new songs are political in some way or another, but few manage to cut through the noise and inspire a reaction in the way that System Of A Down do. #ProtectTheLand #GenocidalHumanoidz /AypVZ8b71l The time to do this is now, as together, the four of us have something extremely important to say as a unified voice. We as SOAD have just released new music for the first time in 15 years. “Terrorists we’re fighting and we’re never gonna stop,” sings Tankian during the chorus before promising that “persecution ends now.” Elsewhere the towering urgency of ‘Genocidal Humanoidz’ wouldn’t feel out of place on 2005’s ‘Hypnotize’. ‘Protect The Land’ is a driving, arena-ready epic that has more in common with Foo Fighters than System’s nu-metal past and it sees the band championing the people who are prepared to defend Armenia’s legacy, history and land “from scavengers and invaders”. More than anthems of rebellion, these songs raise awareness about a very real human rights violation.
Tankian called people who loved his band as well as Trump “hypocrites” as Dolmayan took an entirely opposite stance, calling the President “the greatest friend to minorities.” With such vastly different opinions playing out in public, it really did look like new music was never going to happen. The last dregs of hope were further quashed when it came to this year’s US Elections. “We just haven’t come to agreement on how we would want to do it if we did make a record.” “People change – as time goes on, tastes change and people want to take the band in different directions,” he explained. There’s been plenty of touring since the band reformed in 2010 following a four year hiatus, but according to the band getting into the studio was never really an option.ĭrummer John Dolmayan said the group were “very unlikely to make new music”, vocalist Serj Tankian explained that his friendship with his bandmates meant more than making a new album, and guitarist Daron Malakian said the lack of new songs was down to the band not being on the same page anymore. According to every member of System Of A Down, new music from the heavy metal band was never going to happen.
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