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. Then we turn around and put up our walls" refers to humankind's tendency to exploit the Earth's resources,something through the eyes of a heavanly being whether it be an angel or an extra-terrestrial. Some fans believe that lyrics such as "And we are the ones that want to choose/always want to playīut you never want to lose" and the line "Life is a waterfall/we drink from the river different people at different time because of lines such as "Life is a waterfall,we're one in the river, one again after the fall." Other fans interpret the track as a critique of mainstream American luxury compared to the band's rejection of the mainstream, e.g, the scene with the alien leaving the press after being publicly scrutinized for his fame and retreating to the band playing in a barren desert. Some fans of System of a Down claim that the song is about man's nature to be a paradox, i.e. He then walks to the middle of the circus tent, lays down in the middle, and closes his eyes, as the song ends. At the end of the song, every scene the boy has been shown in is shown briefly. The scene continues to cut between the photo shoot and the band, until near the end, where it shows the boy with two women in red dresses, reaching for money that is falling from above. It then cuts back to the band for a short period of time, where after it displays the boy in a photo shoot, being examined with different clothes. People begin interviewing him, but he is never seen to respond. Exiting the building, paparazzi swarm the boy and begin photographing the boy. The scene then becomes that of the boy, two different women in similar dresses as the first, and an older man, who seems to be interviewing them, or making an agreement. Back outside, the boy is walking down the Hollywood Walk of Fame with two women in red dresses. It then shifts back to the band playing inside the tent.
It then shifts to the boy surrounded by people in an urban environment, with a large group around him dancing. The point is that he is an alien and he's unlike everyone else.
The eyes are pulled back, and the mouth is very small. Inside, the band is getting ready, and being watched by a very abnormal looking young boy.
The viewpoint then shifts to a circus tent. The video starts out in a desolate, desert-like place. The music video was directed by Shavo Odadjian and David Slade.
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