System Of A Down Share New Video ‘Genocidal Humanoidz’

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System Of A Down has unveiled their new video for ‘Genocidal Humanoidz’, after premiering it during the band’s charity livestream.

The song, which released last november (alongside a second single ‘Protect The Land’) and orriginally helped raise over $600,000 For The Armenia Fund, has now gone to help further raise money during the band’s latest livestream.

The two tracks also marked the metal legends first new music in 15 years, with the band putting down their differences to help raise money for The Armenia Fund.

The new video was co-directed by bassist Shavo Odadjian and Adam Mason, and features animation split between footage of the band playing the track together. Check it our below:

Money raised will go to help the rehabilitation of Armenian soldiers who have lost limbs, fitting them with life-changing prosthetics.

The band’s stream is still available to watch here:

Speaking previously about what’s happening over in Artsakh, the band said “On September 27, the combined forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey (along with Isis terrorists from Syria) attacked the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, which we as Armenians call Artsakh. For over the past month, civilians young and old have been awakened day and night by the frightful sights and sounds of rocket attacks, falling bombs, missiles, drones and terrorist attacks. They’ve had to find sanctuary in makeshift shelters, trying to avoid the fallout of outlawed cluster bombs raining down on their streets and homes, hospitals and places of worship. Their attackers have set their forests and endangered wildlife ablaze using white phosphorus, another banned weapon.”

“And Why? Because over 30 years ago in 1988, the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh (which at the time was an Autonomous Oblast within the USSR), were tired of being treated as second class citizens and decided to declare their rightful independence from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic whose borders engulfed their own. This ultimately led to a war of self determination by Armenians in Karabakh against Azerbaijan that ended in a cease fire in 1994, with Armenians retaining control of their ancestral homelands and maintaining their independence to the present day. Our people have lived there for millennia, and for most families there, it’s the only home they and their forefathers and mothers have ever known. They just want to live in peace as they have for centuries.”

“The current corrupt regimes of Aliyev in Azerbaijan and Erdogan in Turkey now want to not only claim these lands as their own, but are committing genocidal acts with impunity on humanity and wildlife to achieve their mission. They are banking on the world being too distracted with COVID, elections and civil unrest to call out their atrocities. They have the bankroll, the resources and have recruited massive public relations firms to spin the truth and conceal their barbaric objective of genocide. This is not the time to turn a blind eye.”

Talking further, frontman Serj Tankian said the conflicts are “an injustice that we want people to pay attention to, and that’s why we’re doing this. So that they can, in turn, inform their own government bodies, who can respond properly.”

He added “As System Of A Down, this has been an incredible occasion for us to come together, and put everything aside and speak out for our nation, as one.”

Here’s the video for ‘Protect The Land’: