System Of A Down’s Shavo Odadjian has defined why Korn singer Jonathan Davis didn’t make his anticipated collaboration with the bassist’s Seven Hours After Violet challenge.
In April 2023, Odadjian mentioned that Davis will seem on a music on Seven Hours After Violet’s debut album, in what appeared set to be a nu metallic team-up for the ages. Nonetheless, when Seven Hours After Violet got here out in October, the Korn man was nowhere in sight.
Now, speaking to KOMP, the bassist says the observe he hoped for Davis to visitor on finally grew to become Paradise, Seven Hours After Violet’s noticeably feature-free debut single.
‘Morgoth [Seven Hours After Violet guitarist Michael Montoya] had a refrain he had sang for [Davis] some time again,” he explains (through Blabbermouth). “’Trigger he produces plenty of bands, and he’s labored with Jonathan Davis. And he’s like, ‘Let’s write a music round this after which play it for him and see if he digs it.’ And it simply didn’t work out nicely.”
Though Odadjian doesn’t say outright why the Davis function was deserted, he notes that, if he have been to collaborate with the singer, he’d get him to strive one thing new: “I need him to work on this with us, not simply have a component that he is executed 10 years in the past and have that regurgitated.”
He provides, “In order that’s what it was. It was nothing on him. He’s superb. We’re pals. I like Jonathan. So it’s, like, we are able to work collectively any day, any time. And we are going to.”
Odadjian additionally reveals that Seven Hours After Violet was initially deliberate to function a distinct singer on every music. The idea was finally rejected, nonetheless, and the band have Taylor Barber as their full-time vocalist.
“However on the time after I introduced that [Davis would appear on the album], we have been making that music and it was nonetheless gonna be a document crammed with options,” the bassist continues. “We weren’t gonna get our personal singer, we weren’t gonna have our personal band. It was gonna be an album of my music with featured vocalists on there from across the planet.”
Odadjian spoke concerning the aborted Davis collaboration throughout a dialog with Steel Hammer in January. “When it was going to be all options, I used to be going to work with Jonathan Davis and informed someone that,” he mentioned. “Subsequent factor I do know, that information is in all places after which the document modified so we by no means really used it!
“He did a verse on Paradise and it sounded fucking nice. Nevertheless it didn’t make sense [for this record]. So we needed to verify once we do use Jonathan, it’ll be absolutely the fucking greatest.”
Seven Hours After Violet was the primary album Odadjian made since System Of A Down’s double album Mezmerize and Hypnotize in 2005. System are at present within the midst of a studio album dry spell that doesn’t appear set to vary any time quickly, however the band have loads of stay plans for 2025. They embrace a South American tour for April and Might and a North American stadium tour for August and September. The North American run will probably be composed of six co-headline reveals, two every with Avenged Sevenfold, Korn and Deftones.
