System Of A Down has insisted that singer Serj Tankian doesn’t speak for the whole band on politics.John Dolmayan told the Deviant Gentlemen Podcast on Monday (September 28) that his views, which are ideologically opposed to Tankian’s, should be freely on display for fans of the band.“If you think that Serj is the mouthpiece of the band, which he is as far as vocally but not necessarily for ideology, then you have nowhere to go,” Dolmayan told the podcast. “So I wanted to present a different view and to give kids out there who think differently and who are critical thinkers, not necessarily following the norm, that there is a different option, you can think differently and that it’s okay to have diversity of opinion as long as it’s done.
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