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Hear Serj Tankian’s Solo ‘Justice Will Shine On,’ Written During System of a Down’s Early Days

Hear Serj Tankian's new solo song, "Justice Will Shine On," from his upcoming 'Foundations' EP.

“The reason I’m putting [ Foundations] out is that archival nature of writing a book made me look into songs from different periods of time,” Tankian told Metal Hammer in April. In 2015, when System of a Down were embarking on a tour to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the genocide, Tankian told Rolling Stone why recognizing what happened to his grandparents’ generation — when Ottoman Turks executed around 1.5 million Armenians — was important. “This is extremely important but only a milestone towards the long road of justice ahead with Turkey and its imminent need to do the same and make amends towards the descendants of 1.5 million Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians systematically slaughtered by its Ottoman Turkish ancestors,” he wrote in a social media post at the time.

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