Tankian had planned to release the EP in October. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , he released it in February 2021 instead.
On December 17, 2020, Serj Tankian announced in a Rolling Stone interview that he would release an EP by the name of Elasticity under his own name.
When asked if the two songs had inspired a new era of creativity for System of a Down, Tankian said to Triple J in December 2020, “I don’t know, because right now we’re focused on what’s going on in Armenia. There’s a huge humanitarian catastrophe. We’re still focused on raising…
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On November 5, 2020, in response to the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War , System of a Down released their first songs in 15 years, ” Protect the Land ” and ” Genocidal Humanoidz “, both of which “speak of a dire and serious war being perpetrated upon our cultural homelands of…
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The album, titled These Grey Men , was released on February 28, 2020. It consists of covers/reimaginations of other songs by artists such as Radiohead, AFI, Madonna, and Talking Heads, among others.
In 2020, he released the first single, a cover of Radiohead ‘s “Street Spirit”, on January 23.
It released the long-awaited sophomore album in 2018, titled Dictator , under the name “Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway”.
In a December 2017 interview with Rolling Stone , Serj Tankian said that System of a Down wrote some new material but was uncertain of what to do with it. He then said that he doesn’t want to commit to a new album due to the lack of committing to…
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In a video Q&A session with fans on July 2, 2017, Shavo Odadjian was asked about the status of the next album and he responded, “I’m waiting for a new album too. It’s not happening. I don’t know. I don’t know when it’s gonna be. Not right now.”
In a November 2016 interview with Kerrang! , drummer John Dolmayan revealed that System of a Down was working on more than a dozen songs for their follow-up to the Mezmerize and Hypnotize albums. Although he stated that the band does not know when the album will be released, he…
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