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The 50 Greatest Metal Frontmen of All Time by ROADRUNNER RECORDS

1. Robert Plant (Band of Joy, Led Zeppelin, Rockestra, The Honeydrippers, Page and Plant, Strange Sensation, Alison Krauss)
2. Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden, Samson)
3. Ronnie James Dio (Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath, Dio, Heaven and Hell)
4. Axl Rose (Guns N' Roses, Hollywood Rose, L.A. Guns, Rapidfire)
5. James Hetfield (Metallica)
6. Angus Young (AC/DC) (Argue it if you don’t agree!)
7. Alice Cooper (Alice Cooper)
8. Steven Tyler (Aerosmith)
9. David Lee Roth (Van Halen)
10. Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath, Ozzy)
11. Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Tomahawk, Peeping Tom, Lovage, John Zorn, Kaada/Patton, Dillinger Escape Plan, Hemophiliac, Maldoror, General Patton vs. The X-Ecutioners)
12. Gene Simmons (Kiss, Wicked Lester) (Argue it if you don’t agree!)
13. Dee Snider (Twisted Sister, Desperado, Widowmaker, S.M.F.'s (Sick Mother Fuckers) )
14. HR (Bad Brains, Human Rights)
15. Rob Halford (Judas Priest, Fight, 2wo, Halford, Bullring Brummies)
16. Sebastien Bach (Madam X, Skid Row, Frameshift, Damnocracy)
17. Iggy Pop (The Stooges, The Iguanas)
18. Henry Rollins (State of Alert, Black Flag, Henrietta Collins and the Wifebeating Childhaters, Rollins Band)
19. Marilyn Manson (Mrs. Scabtree, Marilyn Manson)
20. Serj Tankian (System of a Down, Serart, Axis of Justice,)
21. Phil Anselmo (Superjoint Ritual, Christ Inversion, Down, Arson Anthem, Viking Crown, Pantera)
22. Lemmy (Motörhead, The Rockin' Vickers, The Head Cat)
23. Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails Pigface, Tapeworm)
24. Kerry King (Slayer) (Argue it if you don’t agree!)
25. Danzig (Misfits, Samhain, Danzig)
26. Zach De La Rocha (Rage Against the Machine, Inside Out, Hardstance, One Day as a Lion)
27. GG Allin
28. Scott Ian (Anthrax, Stormtroopers of Death, Damnocracy, Pearl) (Argue it if you don’t agree!)
29. Rob Zombie (White Zombie, Scum of the Earth)
30. Tomas Lindberg (At the Gates, Disfear, The Great Deceiver, The Crown, Skitsystem)
31. Maynard James Keenan (TexA.N.S., Children of the Anachronistic Dynasty, Tool, Green Jellÿ, Tapeworm, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer)
32. Gaahl (Gorgoroth, Trelldrom, Wardruna)
33. David Coverdale (Whitesnake, Deep Purple)
34. Doro (Snakebite, Warlock)
35. Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan)
36. Vince Neil (Mötley Crüe)
37. Wendy-O-Williams (Plasmatics)
38. Lita Ford (The Runaways)
39. Conrad Lant (Venom, Cronos, Probot)
40. Mike Muir (Suicidal Tendencies, No Mercy, Infectious Grooves)
41. Alexi Laiho (Children of Bodom, Sinergy, Kylähullut, Impaled Nazarene)
42. Jeff Walker (Carcass, Blackstar, Brujeria, Electro Hippies)
43. Tom G Warrior (Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, Apollyon Sun, Triptykon)
44. Wino (The Obcessed, Spirit Caravan, St. Vitus, Wino)
45. Joey Demaio (Manowar)(Argue it fuckers!)
46. Chuck Billy (Testament, Dublin Death Patrol)
47. Mike Monroe (Hanoi Rocks, Demolition 23)
48. Dead (Mayhem, Morbid)
49. Sakevi (GISM)
50. Till Lindemann (Rammstein, First Arsch)




Source: http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/news/THE-50-GREATEST-METAL-FRONTMEN-OF-ALL-TIME-19861.aspx

SYSTEM OF A DOWN

Dari kiri ke kanan: John Dolmayan- Daron Malakian- Serj Tankian- Shavo Odadjian

Latar belakang informasi: juga diketahui sebagai SOIL (1992-1994)

Asal: L.A, California, Amerika

Aliran Musik: Alternatif metal, progressif rock, hard rock, experimental

Tahun Aktif: 1994-2006, 2011

Label: Sony Music, American, Columbia

Terkait dengan: Achozen, Axis of Justice, George Clinton and His Gangters of love, Scars on Broadway, Serj Tankian, The Apex Theory

Website: http://www.systemofadown.com

Anggota:

Daron Malakian

Serj Tankian

Shavo Odadjian

John Dolmayan

Mantan Anggota:

Ontronik “Andy” Khachaturian

System of a Down (SOAD) atau biasa di singkat “SYSTEM” adalah band rock yang berasal dari California Selatan, Amerika. Dibentuk pada tahun 1994. band ini terdiri dari Serj Tankian (Vokal, kibor, rhythm Gitar) Daron Malakian (Vokal, gitar) Shavo Odadjian (Bass, backing vocal) John Dolmayan (Drum). Keempat anggota band ini adalah keturunan etnis Armenia. Dalam berkarya musik, mereka banyak mengusung tema dari Genosida Armenia pada tahun 1915yang di lakukan oleh pemerintah Turki.

Band ini mendapatkan sukses dengan merilis 5 (SYSTEM OF A DOWN, TOXICITY, STEAL THIS ALBUM!, MEZMERIZE, HYPNOTIZE) album studio; tiga dari album tersebut mendapat peringkat #1 di billboard 200. System of a Down di nominasikan untuk 4 kali grammy Awards dan memenangkan penghargaan pada tahun 2006 untuk kategori Best Hard Rock Perfomance untuk lagu “B.Y.O.B.” Pada tanggal 13 Agustus 2006, mereka menyatakan diri mereka hiatus (berpisah untuk kurun waktu yang tidak ditentukan) dan mengumumkan untuk reuni pada tanggal 29 november 2010 dengan beberapa rencana tur pada tahun 2011 di Eropa.

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Axis Of Justice is a non-profit organization formed by Tom Morello of Audioslave and Serj Tankian. Its purpose is to bring together musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations to fight for social justice.

The Axis Of Justice Concert Series Volume 1 is a CD and accompanying DVD that contains excerpts from concerts throughtout 2004, concerts held to raise awareness about important issues, raise money for the needy, and raise a righteous clamer for social justice. Fifty years ago diverse artists like Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie would share the stage to fight for civil rights, workers rights, human rights. Today a different generation of artists are stepping forward to do the same.

Rebel music comes in all shapes and sizes. The Axis Of Justice concerts have been a unique gathering of musicians of different musical backgrounds, but with similar points of view. Throughout history, musicians have lent their talents to struggles for freedom and justice. Artists who play hip hop, punk, funk, rock, folk, metal and even country have used their guitars, their turntables and their lyrics to "fight the power." The Axis Of Justice Concert Series began as a way to help defend striking LA grocery workers and has blossomed into an embodiment of the organization: conscious musicians, fans of msuic, and grassroots political organizations coming together to fight for social justice.

source: http://www.serjicalstrike.com/site/artists_view.php?id=7

I feel like this is a brand new band,” Daron Malakian says. “Sometimes we tell people, ‘’We’re Scars on Broadway." And they’re like, "Oh, never heard of it." That’s cool," he adds laughing.

Sure, in System of a Down, Malakian and John Dolmayan earned five straight platinum albums, including three #1’s, and headlined numerous festivals and sold out shows around the world. But he is sincere when he says, “I really didn’t feel like, "Hey, just because I’m Daron from System of a Down, everyone’s just going to bow down to this music." That he’s not taking anything for granted about Scars’ self-titled debut due out July 29 (Interscope) is evident in his enthusiasm as he talks about the immediate success of the powerful guitar driven rocking first single, “They Say.” “When I first heard that song on the radio, I was so excited, like I’d never had a song on the radio before. That’s really how I felt.”

For both Malakian and Dolmayan, the opportunity to prove themselves all over again is one they’re genuinely relishing, especially since both concede that after System’s decade-long run atop the metal and hard rock world they had started to lose that feeling of newness. Recalling Scars’ first two shows, including a critically acclaimed set at Coachella called “One of the festival’s hottest highlights,” by the L.A. Times, Dolmayan says, “At those first two shows, there was an energy in those rooms that I haven’t felt for a long time. And it’s nice to have that fresh feeling because with System we kind of took for granted that people would be there. We were playing old songs so the fans were still going to get crazy for them. With Scars, we don’t have that; we’ve got to earn everything and I like that. I like having to fight for things.”

“When we were doing System, it was like we walked out, we expected to hear the crowd yell the whole System chant and we were almost numb to it,” Malakian adds. “Then Scars played a show with Metallica in Arizona and the crowd was chanting our name. It’s so fresh right now, those little things that I took for granted before in System, because it was like that for 10 years. Scars is bringing that life back.”

That Scars would feel so new is especially understandable for Malakian, who despite his considerable contributions to System of a Down, is now stepping solely into the front for the first time with Scars. How the guitarist got here goes back to System’s chart-topping albums HYPNOTIZE and MEZMERIZE, when he was in the midst of a very prolific creative period. “When writing for MEZMERIZE and HYPNOTIZE, there were a lot of other things I was doing on the side with electronic stuff that I didn’t think would fit in with System, more melodic, more rock-driven things,” he says. “That’s kind of how Scars came about.”

While Scars’ eponymous debut still rocks with an aggressive intensity, particularly on the opening “Serious” and “Exploding/Reloading,” both of which bring a punk energy, and the hard rock blues twang of “Whoring Streets,” the album is propelled by the melodic and rock tunes like “Funny,” a song that is a straight-forward pop-rocker in the best sense of the term, the hooky “World Long Gone,” and of course “They Say.”

For Dolmayan, a self-professed Beatles fan because of the melodies, the different direction of Scars was very appealing. “I’m attracted to melody,” he says. “And Daron’s writing has matured over the last ten years and will more than likely continue to mature. And, as he’s matured, he’s become more and more melodic, so that’s something I’ve always enjoyed."

It’s also allowed him to branch out as a player. “It’s a great conduit to that. It’s nice to have the ability to play a different style of music while playing in the same band. You have an album that feels like three different albums, but there’s still something that draws it all together and binds it, and that’s also how I feel about my drumming. I can play different styles in a song and it still works because there’s that sense of melody happening in the song, it brings it all together.”

According to Malakian, many of the influences that pushed him in this direction are some of the great masters of melody. “I’ve been listening to so much ‘60s pop and ‘70s songwriters. I’m a big fan of the Kinks, the Beatles, the Zombies, and also Neil Young,” he says. “I feel, even though it’s not so obvious sometimes, a song like ‘3005’ is very influenced by Neil Young.”

One listen though to songs like “Chemicals,’ the brilliantly whacked-out, theatrical, Zappa-esque rocker, “Babylon,” the bastard child of punk and Russian Cossack folk music on 78 rpm, and the new wave mechanics of “CuteMachines,” a track Malakian says has been getting great response live, makes it abundantly clear that Dolmayan and Malakian have not completely abandoned the adventuresome spirit of System. And as excited as they are by the challenge of a new band, the System side is still there – the aggressive aspects are evident, that’s simply part of who they are as musicians.

The evolution of Scars, a project Malakian has freely talked about since 2005, has been an ongoing one, much of the process centering on finding the right musicians to round out the project. That didn’t really get going until Dolmayan came on board. “I love John’s drumming, I know who he is as a person, so I called him and he was down and from then on things kind of started putting themselves together.”

“The big thing for us is we’ve got to have people in the band who are not only exceptionally talented, but are good people, people who can have kind of a family mentality, which we have and always have had,” Dolmayan adds.

Scars has been three years in the making, much of that because Malakian believes in letting the music dictate, as opposed to deadlines and commerce. “Some people like going into the studio and saying, ‘Hey, this week we’re going to make an album,’” he says. “I just can’t do that because I’m a little moody and I like different parts of my moods to come out in songs. I like taking a little time to sit there and see where I am in life at that moment and absorb that and let that naturally come out in the songs that I write as opposed to forcing it out.”

Among the moods that came out naturally in the songs is something a lot of people can understand right now – frustration. “Whether it’s a heavier song or a more moody song, one thing that brings them all together is a sense of attitude and a bit of frustration in the lyrics and the vocals,” explained Malakian. Where does that feeling come from? “The frustration is personal and global and it all comes together; the world is like a mind-fuck, full of contradictions. You turn on the evening news and here’s this really pretty blond lady telling you the worst personal things that you can hear on television, [like] suicide rate is up in Iraq. So there are all these things that are going on that people’s brains are taking in and your brain doesn’t know what to feel anymore. And that’s why you have so many people going through depression and stress and anxieties and things like that.”

Artistically though, both Dolmayan and Malakian are very emotionally satiated by Scars. In talking about his feelings when he listens to the finished album, Dolmayan says, “I take pride from it. It’s like watching a child graduate from college. You’re responsible for raising that child, making sure it’s a good person, taking it to the next level and helping the child grow to be an individual. And it’s kind of like that with these songs."

And Malakian’s thoughts? “I feel that Scars is an evolution and a progression from where I came from, which is System, and it feels that way to John. When I listen to our songs this feels right, like this should be happening right now.”

He trusts that when people finally do hear Scars on Broadway, they’ll have the same feeling. “I can’t wait for people to hear the songs because I feel it’s some of my best material ever,” he says. “I really am proud of the material and of what we’ve done.”

source: http://www.scarsonbroadway.com/bio/

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