System of a Down
In a wide-ranging interview, two members of multi-million-selling and Grammy-award-winning metal band System of a Down talk to 5 live\u2019s Dotun Adebayo about their music, their political views, their personal lives and why the 1915 genocide of over one million Armenians is still such an important event for the Armenian community around the world.\nThe four members of the band are all American-Armenians, and in a career lasting over 20 years they\u2019ve sold over forty million records. They\u2019re now embarking on a tour that will culminate in the Armenian capital, Yerevan.\nThe Armenian massacres \u2013 which the Turkish government refuses to call a genocide \u2013 occurred when the Ottoman Empire systematically exterminated over 1 million Armenians in order to remove them from their traditional homeland within modern-day Turkey.\nSystem of a Down\u2019s singer Serj Tankian and drummer John Dolmayan spoke to Dotun Adebayo.