Azerbaijan initiated another war this past September after its president, Ilham Aliyev, took umbrage with Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan’s claim this past spring that Nagorno-Karabakh was wholly Armenian. A previous war between Armenia and Azerbaijan ended with a cease-fire and Armenians in control of the region in 1994. The band decided to put its differences aside last month after war broke out in Nagorno-Karabakh, a mostly ethnic-Armenian region of Azerbaijan that Armenians call “Artsakh.” It covers about 1,700 square miles of mountainous terrain, and it has had a long, bloody history that has scarred the people who live there. They have since toured together and remained friends, but internally, the struggle for creative control has seemed insurmountable. Their singer, Serj Tankian, had asked for a more democratic songwriting process - guitarist-vocalist Daron Malakian wrote nearly everything - but they couldn’t reach a meeting of the minds. But despite their success, they have not been able to agree on a path forward ever since. When it came out, it was an instant hit, the second of two System albums to debut at Number One in 2005. Both songs are available on the group’s Bandcamp page.įifteen years have passed since the Grammy-winning alt-metal group released their last record, Hypnotize. The band will donate proceeds from the songs, which come out Friday, to aid Armenians, and it is soliciting fans to donate to the Armenia Fund, which provides humanitarian relief to the region. After seeing the country of Azerbaijan start a conflict with Armenia in September, the musicians, who are all of Armenian descent, rushed into the studio to record two new songs, “Protect the Land” and “Genocidal Humanoidz,” to draw attention to the crisis in their ancestral homeland. It took a war for System of a Down to record new music.
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