System Of A Down’s Daron Malakian has opened up about how difficult he discovered the nu metallic-era band’s hiatus.
In a brand new interview with Metallic Hammer, the guitarist/vocalist says he discovered it “troublesome” not attending to play and write together with his band between 2006 and 2011.
He additionally reveals that he wished to maintain System going on the time, however provides that he wasn’t going to “pressure” the four-piece’s different members to hold on in the event that they didn’t wish to.
He explains: “When System took the hiatus, I’m not gonna lie, it was troublesome for me at first as a result of that’s not likely what I wished. However I can’t pressure different folks to do one thing simply because I wished it.”
Malakian quickly discovered a brand new artistic outlet in his alt-metal mission Scars On Broadway. The band, who initially had System’s John Dolmayan on drums, launched their self-titled debut album in July 2008.
“My very first thing was, ‘OK, if I launch music, I want an outlet for that,’” Malakian tells Hammer, “and Scars grew to become that outlet. I’ll be trustworthy with you, man, I’m simply as pleased with the Scars stuff as something I’ve finished. I feel a few of my finest shit is on [the first album].”
In a 2006 MTV interview, Malakian mentioned System Of A Down have been briefly splitting to let the members give attention to their private lives. Whereas he began Scars On Broadway, bassist Shavo Odadjian fashioned experimental hip-hop group Achozen and frontman Serj Tankian launched a solo profession. System introduced their return in late 2010 and formally got here again with a string of pageant exhibits in summer time 2011.
Regardless of System’s comeback, the band are but to launch a brand new album, though they did put out double-A-side single Genocidal Humanoidz/Shield The Land in 2020.
Malakian mentioned this February that he has little curiosity in making one other System album. He informed Trunk Nation: “If we put out an album now, it’s simply so distant from [most recent System albums Hypnotize and Mezmerize], it doesn’t proceed the story to me.”
Malakian launched the third Scars On Broadway album, Addicted To Violence, final week to constructive opinions.
