They do know one thing about “Toxicity,” in any case.
Half of beloved alt-rockers System of a Down — singer Serj Tankian, 52, and drummer John Dolmayan, 46 — are embroiled in an internecine squabble over President Donald Trump’s dealing with of the fallout from George Floyd’s dying in police custody — which they’re hashing out over Instagram.
“Run Donny run into your bunker,” Tankian’s prolonged publish from earlier this week begins, beneath a image of protesters close to the White Home, earlier than persevering with, “Chances are you’ll be the primary US President to take action out of worry of your personal residents.”
In the meantime, Dolmayan posted a picture of Trump Wednesday that featured a tweet of his oft-repeated declare of having “accomplished extra for the Black Neighborhood than any President since Abraham Lincoln,” captioning it, “Let’s not let the narrative that’s being spun make us overlook the reality of this assertion.” (He voiced help each “justice for George Floyd” and the tens of 1000’s of good-intentioned policemen and girls nationwide” in one other publish.)
Although the band’s music skewed leftist of their heyday, It’s not the primary time Tankian and Dolmayan have been at odds politically in public: They launched conflicting statements about Bernie Sanders’ candidacy in February.
However the group — who hasn’t launched new music since 2005 — has rescheduled a slew of tour dates (with fellow Aughts-era baggy-pants rockers Korn) for 2021, in what might wind up because the nü-metal equal of arguing along with your family over November’s election.
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