System of a Down have released their first new music in 15 years, sharing a pair of songs titled ‘Protect the Land’ and ‘Genocidal Humanoidz’.The alternative metal legends – all of whom are of Armenian descent – came together and recorded the songs in order to raise awareness and funds amid “a dire and serious war being perpetrated upon [their] cultural homelands”.Stream the tracks below – ‘Protect the Land’ arrives alongside a music video – and download both here via Bandcamp.In a lengthy statement accompanying the songs, the band detail the conflict taking place between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed region with a large ethnic-Armenian population that Armenians refer to as Artsakh.A previous war between Armenia and.
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