He also owns a comic book shop in Las Vegas, Torpedo Comics. John Dolmayan was also in Scars On Broadway for a while, and has also played with Killing Joke, Scum Of The Earth and Tool. Their second album, Dictator, came out last year. Malakian’s current project is Scars On Broadway, a more classic metal-inspired band. Like, if Malakian didn’t have the big wacky fake tattoo, he’d still look scary, wouldn’t he? He’s so good at the eye thing. They all appear in Screamers, a documentary about that event and modern-day genocide denial. All four band members are Armenian-American – although only Odadjian was born in the ASSR, while Tankian and Dolmayan were born in Lebanon and Malakian in LA – and the band has several songs about the Armenian genocide of 1915.
That flag being waved in the background is that of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, which stopped existing when the USSR dissolved in 1991. They’re, like, disappearing and reappearing? Director Marcos Siega has made some all-time classic videos, including Weezer’s Hash Pipe, Blink-182’s All The Small Things and Papa Roach’s Last Resort. It’s very good at producing a disorienting, 'Haha, wow, so sodding drunk' feeling. It’s used really well in The Hangover, 28 Days Later and Get Him To The Greek. This camera effect, where it stays focused on a person’s face as they lurch through the world, is called Snorricam. Hence the line, ' I cry when angels deserve to die'…” Like, if I were now to die from drug abuse, they might say I deserved it because I abused dangerous drugs. "The song is about how we are regarded differently depending on how we pass,” he said. Daron Malakian told the NME that the crux of the song is how death, and the cause of death, affects how we view people.
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