Daron Malakian has strong opinions about what’s missing in heavy music today: danger and risk. “I think you have a generation of fans who are very easily offended,” he tells Rolling Stone . “Offensiveness and shock should not be taken away from rock music in general.”

Those qualities are inherent in “Killing Spree,” the bloodthirsty first single off Addicted to the Violence , the new album from Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway, due out July 18. “Insanity/Controlling me,” he sings in the song’s chorus, “Society/The kids are on a killing spree.” Built on manic, strobing guitars and undulating waves of distortion, the music feels both cutting and brutalizing. “It’s gonna feel like a Jesus comin’ back,” he sings, stretching the last word heavenward with giddy, helium-like aplomb. “It

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