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Heavy Metal - I've Seen You Guys Wear Paint, Were We?
I remember also like the what looked like Armenian folk dancing while playing these essentially heavy metal songs. I mean, that's kind of the sound of system of a down. It brings our kind of filtered Armenian experience into heavy music in a way that doesn't copy either and just kind of becomes its own thing. That includes rhythms that includes weird solos and whatnot. And harmonies really feel like they're rooted in they don't sound like the harmonies that you hear in any other hard music. Yeah, a lot of thirds like Greek and Armenian Mediterranean harmonies.
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