Satellite Citi Releases Video For “Empath” Highlighting Five Stages Of Grief As Part Of Mental Health Awareness Month

Johnnie Crow — Tue, 18 May 2021 04:53:53 +0000

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L.A. Hard Rock Duo

Satellite Citi

Releases Video For Blistering New Single “Empath”

See The Bold Art Piece

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A New Taste Of The Upcoming Album Fear Tactics,

“Empath” Highlights Five Stages Of Grief

As Part Of Mental Health Awareness Month This May;

Proceeds From An Exclusive T-Shirt Will Benefit

The National Alliance On Mental Illness

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Band’s Music Also Recently Featured In Documentary

“Long Live Rock…Celebrate The Chaos”

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Up-and-coming L.A.-based hard rock duo Satellite Citi provide another taste of their anticipated full-length album with the single “Empath,” released today alongside a bold new video. Like many of Satellite Citi’s other songs that have a strong message woven throughout the lyrics and art, “Empath” is centered around the five stages of grief — Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance — and is being released during Mental Health Awareness Month to help raise awareness for this important health issue.

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Get the track at Bandcamp HERE.

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The band, featuring drummer/vocalist Anna Gevorkian and guitarist Shaunt Sulahian, say of the song: “We thought it was important to create a symbolic visual representation in our video, as the world is slowly crawling out of one of the darkest periods in modern history. The video ends with a shot of us staring into a mirror, which represents the responsibility that individuals have to be proactive and seek help when they are in a bad mental state. In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we want to join the fight to end the stigma surrounding various mental illnesses that affect so many people.”

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Along with the new song, Satellite Citi has released an exclusive new “Empath” T-shirt with proceeds benefitting NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness). It features original artwork by Jaime Valderrama. Entitled “CHAMELEON,” it’s based on the subject of mental health and the struggles he’s overcome. The T-shirt can be purchased HERE.

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Gevorkian and Sulahian are both Armenian-Americans born and raised in Los Angeles who first launched their career in 2015 with the poignant track “Rock Bottom” to commemorate the 100^th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. In late 2020, they returned to that important topic with the powerful song “Antibody”, featuring Crobot’s Brandon Yeagley, that premiered on Loudwire. It was dedicated to the people of Armenia and aimed to bring awareness to the latest attacks on the country beginning in late September 2020 that killed hundreds of innocent civilians and displaced thousands more.

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Both “Empath” and “Antibody” are singles from Satellite Citi’s upcoming fall 2021 album Fear Tactics, which is produced by the lauded Brad Wood (Smashing Pumpkins, Placebo, Liz Phair, Touche Amore) and features a wide range of inspiration from Black Sabbath to Muse to Halestorm. Previous singles have included “Black Magic,” “Miscommunication” and “Getaway.”

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As a follow-up to their acclaimed 2018 debut EP Negative Space, the new album will thematically center around the importance of mental health and represents the band’s own struggles of coping with fear and anxiety, that are even more permeated in today’s culture. As Huffington Post has declared of the band’s important messaging in their songs, which have also included songs devoted to LGBTQ+ youth, “Satellite Citi are on the road to delivering audiences with music that tackles important issues that our society is facing today.”

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A regular fixture on the stages in their hometown of Los Angeles, Satellite Citi is joined live by two anonymous Spacewalkers on bass and guitar that further taps into the band’s curiosity of other realms and advanced life forms. The band’s name, in fact, is based off of the idea of a city, outside of our galaxy, where people communicate with their minds.

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In addition to music, Anna and Shaunt love video games and writing—they are currently working on their first original sci-fi graphic novel called Spacewalker with former DC editor Jim Higgins, that will coincide with a new concept EP in 2022. Satellite Citi also has five songs featured in the recently released rock documentary Long Live Rock…Celebrate The Chaos, directed by Jonathan McHugh, that features bands such as Metallica, Korn, Slipknot, and Rob Zombie. The trailer can be viewed HERE. As well the band’s song “Getaway” is featured in the new show “The Freak Brothers.”

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(Photo by Michelle Shiers)

Below are stills from the “Empath” music video (directed by Ryan Valdez and Rosie Geozalian) depicting the iconography of the five stages of grief:

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Find Satellite Citi Online

Official Website: www.satelliteciti.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/satelliteciti

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/SatelliteCiti

Instagram: www.instagram.com/satelliteciti

Twitter: www.twitter.com/satelliteciti

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4laO1AzROVryZq7KcHnDfL?si=w8EQQITFTmCXRVaPyNUjHQ

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System Of A Down Releases 2 New Songs To Benefit Artsakh, Armenia Attacks

Johnnie Crow — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 17:24:39 +0000

IT TOOK AN ATTACK AGAINST ARMENIANS TO BRING IT ABOUT,

BUT THE WAIT IS OVER

SYSTEM OF A DOWN RELEASES TWO BRAND NEW SONGS

TO RAISE AWARENESS AND FUNDS TO AID THE PEOPLE

OF ARTSAKH AND ARMENIA AFTER CONTINUED ATTACKS

BY AZERBAIJAN AND TURKEY

“We’re probably the only rock band that has governments as enemies,

the only rock band that’s at war, so I wrote these songs to boost the morale

of our troops and Armenians around the world.“ – Daron Malakian

Clockwise, from Top Left: Daron Malakian, John Dolmayan, Shavo Odadjian, Serj Tankian

Photo Credit: Armen Keleshian

LOS ANGELES, CA – It’s been 15 years since the GRAMMY®-winning, multi-Platinum-selling SYSTEM OF A DOWN, one of the most beloved rock bands in the world, released new music. For years, fans and press speculated about this, and of late, the rumor mill has gone into overdrive hypothesizing when the band might return to the studio. Today, motivated by the recently-erupted conflict between Artsakh and Azerbaijan, the latter aided by Turkey and accountable for the greatest violence the region has endured in 26 years, System Of A Down – Daron Malakian/guitars, vocals, Serj Tankian/vocals, Shavo Odadjian/bass, and John Dolmayan/drums – announces the release of its first new songs in 15 years: “Protect The Land” and “Genocidal Humanoidz.” Produced by Malakian, who also wrote the music and lyrics, both songs are streaming now on all DSPs and are available for purchase on Bandcamp with band royalties earmarked for the Armenia Fund. You can check out the music video for “Protect The Land”.

So why now? Last month, profoundly affected by the unwarranted surprise attacks and bombings of civilians perpetrated by Azerbaijan and Turkey (Turkey was responsible for the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 as well as over 100 years of denial), Dolmayan texted his three bandmates. Said Dolmayan, “I texted, ‘no matter how we feel about each other, no matter what issues linger from the past, we need to put them aside because this is bigger than System Of A Down and bigger than all of us…..we need to do something to support our people.'” Joined together on a subsequent conference call, everyone voiced the same concern and the vital importance of helping in some way, the way they knew best – music.

“The aggression and injustice being perpetrated against the Armenian people in Artsakh and Armenia by Azerbaijan and Turkey is a human rights violation and a war crime,” said Tankian. “All of us in System realize this is an existential battle for our people, so this is very personal for us. What we need right now is for the world to put politics aside and support Armenia by sanctioning Turkey and Azerbaijan and recognizing Artsakh.”

Today, System Of A Down also releases the music video for “Protect The Land,” that incorporates recent footage of the protests and on-the-ground fighting in Artsakh, but in a very personal and aesthetic way. As he did for all previous System Of A Down releases, Odadjian executive produced the music video and curated the cover and brand art for the project. “I wanted to show the unification of our people around the world for one common cause, illustrating the power in numbers,” he said, “so we brought together people from all ages and professions who believe in and are fighting for that same cause. It’s one thing to come up with an idea, but to see it come alive as happened with this video, has been just incredible.”

On the recording of “Protect The Land” and “Genocidal Humanoidz,” Odadjian added, “It was such a pleasure for us to be together in the studio again, very comforting and natural, like no time had passed at all.”

L-R: Daron Malakian, Serj Tankian, Shavo Odadjian, John Dolmayan. Photo Credit: Clemente Ruiz

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