Serj Tankian arrives late at the appointment, o­n board of a Mercedes black Benz, each hair of its peculiar beard in its place.
He lives in Hollywood and is assures that that is not incompatible with its deep social commitment, still in the city that many (until they themselves in o­ne of its new songs) consider of "plastic". "it is not impossible here to be activist, o­nly who is o­ne more a solitary activity", ironiza the leader of whom is indicated like the more important heavy band in which it goes of the millenium. Or, at least, the o­ne that more weight.
A pair of years back, agreeing with the beginning of the war, released the opportune video of Boom, filmed during the world-wide marches by La Paz of February of the 2003. And at the same time, Serj said to him to Yes! that "the world fears more to him to Bush than to Saddam".
 In the subject an enumeration to numbers related to the war was listened to in addition, from the value of Iraqian petroleum to the number of American congressmen with mobilized children: 1. For them, the war is something personal: the guitarist Daron Malakian has resident family in Iraq. And for the System of to Down, four descending North American citizens of those Armenians who survived the Turkish genocide of 1915, George W. Bush is another genocida.

- It seems that those that think as vos are a minority in your country, since they could not change the presidency...
- I do not believe that we are a minority. I think that this society very is polarized.

- In song "B.Y.O.B", which they include in "Mezmerize", they are asked "why always they send to the poor men why the president does not go to the war". They are speaking of Bush and Iraq?
- That song we did not do it necessarily thinking about Iraq, but it can been have inspired by that war. If mirás for back in history, in the old days the kings who fought the wars led their armies and loaded with them against the enemy. Now the leaders make the decisions in Internet. Bush never experienced really the war with Iraq, does not have the smaller idea of which it means to go to the front.

- and to vos you can be considered a pacifist?
- You could say that. I believe in that we must lean an a the others to be able to live in this planet. If querés to call pacifism, OK.

- Why then to title another o­ne of the songs "Attack"? It does not seem a very pacifist term that we say...
- the line of the choir says "Attack", is why we called it thus. We tried to maintain titles simple to decide them, we did not think to us how they are going away to perceive. Although thinking it now, that many attack something does not mean necessarily that takes control of violence, also means to be conscious that something is unjust and to try to change it.

- and why they finished being two discs instead of o­ne?
- We made 35 songs, we ended up recording 28 and we are going to leave some in the way. It was not the primary intention to unfold it, single we wanted to reflect what we felt. But o­nce I seated with Rick Rubin (producing) to listen to 30 songs of a serve and was exhausted. He is hard to digest it everything of blow.
Let us put it thus: for us it is a single disc who we sent in two quotas so that people can digest it easier. System of to Down has thought to pass by Buenos Aires in order year (primicia! hopefully you would not be estresen like Metallica) and what it happened in Cromañón it is going to make them take greater safety measures.

The singer says to have read in the news something of the accident but she requests more specifications. At the end of racconto it is shockeado by several things. First, to Serj Tankian it costs to him to think that flares in a closed place have been thrown. Seconds later it puts face of horror when finding out that the exits of emergency were closed with padlock and finishes being astonished when listening that the pyrotechnics did not belong to the band but to the public "Auch", it exclaims. "From already I feel very badly by all the families who underwent this terrible tragedy", the singer supports. In the case of them, he says, are customary to that the places in which they touch provide the security with the case. But also he comments that often they have had to take part when seeing that they passed things in his concerts. "Memory o­nce we had to stop a show in Australia because we saw people who made signs desperate. It was that there was somebody very serious between the 50 thousand assistants and we waited for the doctors. The important thing is to enjoy and to feel safe because if no, you are not going to live to enjoy again ".

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