After the sustained calls for new System Of A Down material, when it eventually arrived responses were a little flat. Protect The Land and Genocidal Humanoidz, released to address the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, had all the hallmarks you’d expect from the Armenian-American legends, but while the release of the tracks themselves came as a surprise, in adhering to the familiar, the results didn’t. Given the four members of the band had gone in such different directions in the 15 years since 2005’s last album, Hypnotize, one couldn’t help wondering what could have been if they’d wrangled their differences and coalesced more inventively. Serj Tankian’s new EP is therefore an intriguing proposition. Compromising tracks the frontman originally wrote for SOAD...
