In Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal, Malakian said: “Close to 10,000 kids showed up. The crowd reacted quite dramatically, rushing the stage and destroying the band’s equipment to the tune of $30,000. They were scheduled to play at 4pm, but more fans than expected showed up, leading to delays and eventually officials announcing at 4:30pm that the concert couldn’t go ahead. See those excited fans? Three weeks or so after this single dropped, the band staged a free concert in LA to launch the album Toxicity, and everyone got so excited it descended into a full-scale riot. Matthew 27:46, Psalm 22 and Isaiah 49:14 all have some variation on it. “Why have you forsaken me?” comes up a few times in the Bible. "I commend my spirit" is said by Jesus in Luke 23:46. ![]() It's so unusual that it goes between these crazy rhythmic explosive verses into this emotional, anthemic ending.” And then it's got this incredible bridge, 'Father, father, father, do you commend my spirit? / Father, why have you forsaken me?' It's just real heavy, biblical and grand. It's both difficult to sing and arguably difficult to listen to, but then the chorus is this big, soaring, emotional, surging, beautiful thing. “It's an unusual song because the verse is so frantic. Rubin is very open about how strange an offering this song is as a big single, but that’s what he likes about it, even if he can’t quite remember the words. And the emotion of the performances, it really reaches me. ![]() This is hard, but it's playful, and it's really danceable and funky. It's hard music, but a lot of hard music sounds very similar. He told Rolling Stone: “When I first saw System Of A Down, I loved them so much, it just made me laugh. The band’s ability to switch style and tone at the drop of a hat and go from this almost choral-sounding part to big giant riffs, is part of what attracted Rick Rubin to working with them, co-producing the album with Tankian and Malakian. He also owns a comic book shop in Las Vegas, Torpedo Comics. John Dolmayan was also in Scars On Broadway for a while, and has also played with Killing Joke, Scum Of The Earth and Tool. ![]() Their second album, Dictator, came out last year. Malakian’s current project is Scars On Broadway, a more classic metal-inspired band. Like, if Malakian didn’t have the big wacky fake tattoo, he’d still look scary, wouldn’t he? He’s so good at the eye thing. They all appear in Screamers, a documentary about that event and modern-day genocide denial. All four band members are Armenian-American – although only Odadjian was born in the ASSR, while Tankian and Dolmayan were born in Lebanon and Malakian in LA – and the band has several songs about the Armenian genocide of 1915. That flag being waved in the background is that of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, which stopped existing when the USSR dissolved in 1991. They’re, like, disappearing and reappearing? Director Marcos Siega has made some all-time classic videos, including Weezer’s Hash Pipe, Blink-182’s All The Small Things and Papa Roach’s Last Resort. It’s very good at producing a disorienting, 'Haha, wow, so sodding drunk' feeling. It’s used really well in The Hangover, 28 Days Later and Get Him To The Greek. This camera effect, where it stays focused on a person’s face as they lurch through the world, is called Snorricam. ![]() Hence the line, ' I cry when angels deserve to die'…” Like, if I were now to die from drug abuse, they might say I deserved it because I abused dangerous drugs. "The song is about how we are regarded differently depending on how we pass,” he said. Daron Malakian told the NME that the crux of the song is how death, and the cause of death, affects how we view people.
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