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When System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian released his philosophical memoir last month, we talked to him for a We’ve Got A File On You interview. At the end of the Q&A, he discussed his public request for Imagine Dragons to cancel their show in Azerbaijan last year, a request Imagine Dragons ignored. Tankian compared it to performing in Nazi Germany and concluded, “Anyone that does ethnic cleansing and genocide needs to be fucking punished. So that’s why I got pissed off. Some artists are artists and some artists are entertainers, and I’ll leave it at that.”
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System of a Down: Members Clash Over Trump, Announce Shows With Korn
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System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian and drummer John Dolmayan are both extremely vocal about their political views. They also happen to have extremely different political views.
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System of a Down: Serj Tankian is planning an EP originally slated to become a System Of A Down project
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Serj Tankian reports that a new rock EP is on the way: “I think I’m gonna call it Elasticity just because I wanted to do it with System and it didn’t happen”
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Serj Tankian: System Of A Down’s John Dolmayan recruits Serj Tankian for cover of Bowie’s Starman
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John Dolmayan’s These Grey Men project launch their take on the classic David Bowie track - with special guest Serj Tankian
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System of a Down: Serj Tankian is "all for" unreleased System Of A Down tracks finally seeing the light of day
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SOAD vocalist Serj Tankian supports fans' requests to hear unreleased songs from the Mesmerize and Hypnotize sessions, but the rest of the band still need convincing
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System of a Down: announce 2020 European tour
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Including headlining slots at Download, Nova Rock and moreSystem of a Down's Serj Tankian performing in 2018.After announcing a few festival dates, System Of A Down have unveiled a 2020 European tour. Yesterday, the band announced a slate of headline shows in the Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic and more. Tickets for these seven shows go on ...
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