Ontronik Khachaturian

Ontronik "Andy" Khachaturian (Armenian: Անդրանիկ (Անդի) Խաչատրյան) is the former singer for The Apex Theory (now Mt. Helium). Ontronik left the band in November 2002 due to musical differences. He is also the former drummer for System of a Down; he left the band after the third demo due to a hand injury.

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# Posted on Friday, 20 June 2008 at 12:26 PM

Serj Tankian

Serj Tankian
Serj Tankian (Armenian: Սերժ Թանգեան) (born August 21, 1967 in Beirut, Lebanon[1]) is a Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer, songwriter, poet, activist, and multi-instrumentalist. He is best known as the lead vocalist, rhythm guitarist and keyboardist of the alternative metal band System of a Down. In 2002, Serj and Tom Morello co-founded a non-profit political activist organization, Axis of Justice. During his entertainment career, he has released five albums with System of a Down, one with Arto Tunçboyacıyan (Serart), and also recently a solo album, Elect the Dead, on October 23, 2007.
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# Posted on Friday, 20 June 2008 at 12:25 PM

Shavo Odadjian

Shavo Odadjian
Shavo Odadjian (Armenian: Շավո Օդադջյան) (born April 22, 1974, Yerevan, Armenia as Shavarsh Odadjian) is the bassist for the Armenian American-based alternative metal band System of a Down and a member of the group Achozen.

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# Posted on Friday, 20 June 2008 at 12:23 PM

Daron Malakian

Daron Malakian
Daron Vartan Malakian (Armenian: Տարոն Վարդանի Մալաքյան) (born 18 July 1975) was the lead guitarist and main songwriter in the band System of a Down until their hiatus in 2006 and is now lead singer and guitarist in the Scars On Broadway band. Malakian has written most of System of a Down's music, and, more recently, has taken on a large share of the vocal work for the band as well. Like the rest of the Hollywood-based band, he is of Armenian ancestry, but is the only member to actually have been born inside the U.S. (Los Angeles). He placed 30th in Guitar World's List of "The 100 Greatest Heavy Metal Guitarists Of All Time."
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# Posted on Friday, 20 June 2008 at 12:22 PM

John Dolmayan

John Dolmayan
John Dolmayan (Armenian: Ջոն Դոլմայան, born July 15, 1973 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a musician, best known as the drummer for the Armenian-American alternative metal band System of a Down, and current drummer for the band Scars on Broadway. His bandmates for System of a Down are vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Serj Tankian, guitarist/vocalist Daron Malakian, and bassist Shavo Odadjian. John currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was first interested in drums at the age of 2. His father was a saxophone player. When his mother would take him to watch his father play, he would mimic his father's drummer. When he was 4 years old, he asked his parents for a drum set every birthday and Christmas until he was 15 and he got his first drumkit.
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# Posted on Friday, 20 June 2008 at 12:09 PM