System Of A Down - Considering Making A New Album
System Of A Down recently announced their Wake Up The Souls Tour starting on April 10th to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in which Ottoman Turks began arresting and executing some 1.5 million Armenians. Now frontman Serj Tankian says the band will consider making their first album in 10 years after the tour ends in April. Serj Tankian says System Of A Down have discussed recording a new album.
The band plans on livestreaming their first-ever performance in Armenia so people all over the world can watch.
He tells Rolling Stone: "There has been talk, and we are going to play this tour, come back and we're going to see where we are. If we have songs that work for System, if I have them and Daron has them. The openness is there to work together, but we haven't made any particular plans that we can announce."
Tankian added that he has written tracks that could work for System Of A Down. He says: "I have a few that could apply, but I'm not sure until the time comes where I can actually play them for the guys and see if it's something that vibes off them."
Drummer John Dolmayan said last year that he was frustrated by the current situation and hinted at creative struggles within the band. He stated: "I've actually asked where their heads were at, where they were going musically. Because it's important for me to know that, then I can do some research on either the bands that were inspiring them at the time so that I could kind of get in the same head space, or even maybe hear some of the material. But to date, I haven't heard any songs, with the exception of a few here and there, that I could really start kind of pointing the direction of my drumming in the future to meet. The other question of when we're going to be doing something, your guess is as good as mine. I'm in a band of four very unique individuals, they are eccentric at times, they are artists. All artists are a little bit cooky I guess, and they're going to do things on their timeline of whenever that works out for them, I guess."
The band plans on livestreaming their first-ever performance in Armenia so people all over the world can watch.
He tells Rolling Stone: "There has been talk, and we are going to play this tour, come back and we're going to see where we are. If we have songs that work for System, if I have them and Daron has them. The openness is there to work together, but we haven't made any particular plans that we can announce."
Tankian added that he has written tracks that could work for System Of A Down. He says: "I have a few that could apply, but I'm not sure until the time comes where I can actually play them for the guys and see if it's something that vibes off them."
Drummer John Dolmayan said last year that he was frustrated by the current situation and hinted at creative struggles within the band. He stated: "I've actually asked where their heads were at, where they were going musically. Because it's important for me to know that, then I can do some research on either the bands that were inspiring them at the time so that I could kind of get in the same head space, or even maybe hear some of the material. But to date, I haven't heard any songs, with the exception of a few here and there, that I could really start kind of pointing the direction of my drumming in the future to meet. The other question of when we're going to be doing something, your guess is as good as mine. I'm in a band of four very unique individuals, they are eccentric at times, they are artists. All artists are a little bit cooky I guess, and they're going to do things on their timeline of whenever that works out for them, I guess."
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| Mehdi Taba Mehdi Taba Posts: 433  |
Good... System Of A Down is the most Diverse band on the world so it can be interesting! 
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| Cynic Metalhead Paisa Vich Nasha Posts: 6815  |
What an apt message can ever given by dickhead(Serj). Serj always want to be in a lead and take band's decisions in hand which comes out to be amusing when we see from our perspective. Other 3 guys are pretty serious and can MAKE BETTER MUSIC WITHOUT HIM. It's just that the old vibes keep intact, other three not saying much. Well, it's good they have something in mind to put together and comes out in 2015. Whatever they'll do, it gonna' be pretty interesting release.
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| Troy Killjoy perfunctionist Staff Posts: 21306  |
I was almost excited... until I read the article. Doesn't seem very likely that this will actually happen.
---- "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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| BloodTears ANA-thema Elite Posts: 11835  |
It's like they just say yes because everybody asks them. If they are just doing it because the fans want a new album, it might turn out to be pretty bad. Also, they don't seem very motivated to do it.
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| FreddeSwede Posts: 126  |
I'm not surprised they have tons of material now with all the shit going on in this world.
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| Alex F Slick Dick Rick Posts: 3502  |
Written by Troy Killjoy on 10.01.2015 at 13:26 It probably won't, and even if it does, I guarantee it will sound forced and uninspired, as I highly doubt any of them would actually consider doing this if there wasn't such a massive demand from the fans. I almost hope they resist cashing in on the opportunity, as I really can't see anything good coming out of this.
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| Netzach Planewalker Staff Posts: 1611  |
SOAD have released lots of brilliant stuff and lots of not-even-funny batshittery. A new album could go either way, could be interesting any way...
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