Design of a Down will proceed their mission to present humanitarian abet to Armenians struggling from the war over the disputed status identified as Nagorno-Karabakh this weekend with a charity livestream that can even gaze the premiere of a unique video for the song “Genocidal Humanoidz.” The match will happen on the community’s YouTube channel on Saturday at midday ET. All proceeds raised will hotfoot to abet Armenians.
At some stage within the published, the band will interview famous Armenians to chat in regards to the cause. Maria Mehranian, a consultant for Armenia Fund USA, will advise with the community, as will musician Sebu Simonian, Armenian Parliamentarian Narek Mkrtchyan, and Real Day L.A.’s Araksya Karapetyan, amongst others. Lt. Colonel Sargis Stepanyan from Armenian Wounded Heroes Fund and others can even present particular videos. Other guests embody Lilit Garibyan, a Harvard clinician who leads a charity that helps address victims of burn and trauma scars and director Adam Mason, of Deep Sky Animation, who helped salvage the “Genocidal Humanoidz” video. The clip itself will debut at 2 p.m.ET.
The community released its first unique songs after 15 years — “Genocidal Humanoidz” and “Give protection to the Land” — in November as a manner of elevating awareness about Armenians’ hassle in the end of the country’s war with Azerbaijan. Troops from Azerbaijan invaded Nagorno-Karabakh, which Armenians call Artsakh, last tumble in an are trying and wrest energy over the distance from Armenia. The gap, which exists internal Azerbaijan, has been in dispute for hundreds of years, main up to a bloody war in 1994 and several disputes thereafter. The most up-to-date strive in opposition to ended in a truce in mid December by way of a peace deal brokered by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The money Design of a Down raises with the livestream can assist present prosthetic limbs to troopers left paraplegic as a outcomes of the war and laser treatment for people burned by chemical weapons.
“I no doubt had been to Artsakh twice,” frontman Serj Tankian steered Rolling Stone in November on the height of the strive in opposition to. “It’s lawful beautiful nation-recount, and it’s lawful no doubt unhappy seeing all of that destroyed apt now and the of us having to switch. The of us are lawful good there. They’re the extinct Armenians. They’ve been residing on those lands since 500 B.C. They’re very sturdy and beautiful and humorous. They don’t salvage scared, man. They’ve considered this sooner than, nevertheless it’s no doubt, no doubt fucked up.”
