Metal Anarchy

System Of A Down guitarist/vocalist Daron Malakian has been facing backlash after releasing a new visualizer for a Scars On Broadway track titled “Your Lives Burn.” The song, which appears on the band’s latest album “Addicted To The Violence,” has proven to be controversial due its “centrist” political stance. As such, Malakian has been responding to the backlash on an Instagram post promoting the video.

Malakian said the following:

“All these years you knew why I was sick of the right. Now you can see through these comments why I’m sick of the left as well.”

He then had several exchanges with fans:

Exchange 1:

Fan: “Glad people realizing how shit these lyrics are. ‘Lives‘ and ‘Angry Guru‘ were some of the worst songs I’ve sat through”

Malakian: “I heard you are an amazing lyricist. Let’s hear your latest masterpiece.”

Exchange 2:

Fan 1: “The people in the comments getting mad at him are proving his point i fear”

Malakian: “Yup”

Fan 2: “How dare we have an opinion when someone expresses a dumbass opinion. We must be like the nazis or sumthin.”

Malakian: You’re not that different. Opposite sides of the same extremist coin. Which is why some of you cheer when someone on the other side gets assassinated. The Nazis thought the people who disagreed with them had dumbass opinions too. They also cheered when the opposition got killed. You both suck.”

Exchange 3:

Fan: “I believe what youre looking for is actually communism 🤞 which does not entail being a liberal or conservative”

Malakian: “Hell NO!!!”

Fan: “Communism liberates the working class 🔥will save us all”

Malakian: “I suggest you move to a communist country and see how that works out for you little kitty. Or you can save yourself the trouble and just ask the people who risked their lives escaping those places.”