Interview with Andrew Fish for Venice Magazine:

With soft, soothing lilts rising to thundering, operatic crescendos before ripping into a blood-curdling roar, Serj Tankian’s vocals seem both at odds and in perfect sync with the brutal nature of hard rock and metal. The lead singer of System of a Down’s unorthodox approach to the genre gave us something we’d never heard before, and thrust the fans toward the brink of feral ecstasy. And now that Tankian has stepped away from the head-banging bedlam in favor of harp, cello, and viola, the audience that used to descend into the primal mosh now gazes wide-eyed at their luminary, and becomes a sea of great, big, goofy grins...

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