System of a Down - Back After 15 Years! Does Absence Make The Heart Grow Fonder? (A Friend Reacts)
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A pre recorded and then live reaction to two new songs by System of a Down: Protect the Land and Genocidal Humanoidz, the first new music from this band in fifteen years! Contained is a retrospective introduction to the band, and how I fell to love them in the era of Bush protest music, before my thoughts and feelings immediately before and then after listening to the songs for the first time.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:45 Why I Love System of a Down
6:22 Pre Listen
7:03 Post Listen, Review and Discussion
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A Friend Reacts is a live recording, taken on the day that new mass media entertainment was released. It features a short introduction, explanation about the history of franchise before providing an initial reaction to the new release. This is a spin of from a Friend Recalls covering more contemporary, newly released media. A Friend Recalls is a video series providing retrospective analysis of popular culture (video games, books, comics, movies), trying to understand how our taste in entertainment has changed over the last few decades. In these videos look at topics such as the history behind their creation, the cultural impact they had on the wider world or just celebrate high watermarks - experiences that deserve to be celebrated. In 2018 video gaming became the worlds single most popular form of entertainment however that does not mean other forms are dead or deserve to be forgotten. We have been fortunate enough to reap the benefits of an evolving industry that learns from both it's successes and mistakes - and I've been learning as a consumer. This series is designed to celebrate and share important milestones and significant releases; be they good or bad.
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From Wikipedia:
System of a Down (also known abbreviated as SoaD or just simply as System) is an Armenian-American metal band formed in Glendale, California in 1994. The band currently consists of founding members Serj Tankian (lead vocals, keyboards), Daron Malakian (vocals, guitar) and Shavo Odadjian (bass, backing vocals) as well as John Dolmayan (drums), who replaced original drummer Andy Khachaturian in 1997.
The band achieved commercial success with the release of five studio albums, three of which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200. System of a Down has been nominated for four Grammy Awards and their song "B.Y.O.B." won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2006. The band went on hiatus in 2006 and reunited in 2010, and they have continued to perform live occasionally since then. Other than two new songs in 2020 ("Protect the Land" and "Genocidal Humanoidz"), System of a Down has not released a full-length studio album since the Mezmerize and Hypnotize albums in 2005. The band has sold over 40 million records worldwide, while two of their singles "Aerials" and "Hypnotize" reached number one on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart.
On November 5, 2020, in response to the 2020 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 Artsakh and Armenia". "Protect the Land" also received a music video and marked the band's first single in 14 years, since "Lonely Day". As for a possible new album, Dolmayan told Rolling Stone, "If it was up to me, we'd have a new album every three years. But things aren't up to me. I'm at the mercy of my team, and although I fought for it for many years with band members, I've accepted that it is what it is. We do have five albums and [now] two songs. We've accomplished a lot in our careers. If it ends at that, so be it."