It Really Helped Put Metal Back In A Good Place

System Of A Down got here up within the late ’90s and early 2000s when steel wasn’t precisely the most well-liked kind of music. The style would eventual regain its footing as nü-metal took off large time within the 2000s, and would proceed to chug alongside simply positive as much as the current day.

In an interview with Metal Hammer, System Of A Down guitarist Daron Malakian cited excursions like Ozzfest and bands like Korn and Deftones for actually bringing the style out of the dumps and again into the highlight.

“I will be sincere, we got here up at a time the place steel wasn’t doing so effectively. Once we first toured with Slayer, they weren’t taking part in arenas – they had been taking part in theatres within the US. We might gone from steel being this enormous factor within the 80s to the Seattle factor coming in and kinda killed off quite a lot of steel, just like the velocity steel bands of that point,” stated Malakian.

“That features quite a lot of the bands I actually beloved. Even within the late 90s, it felt prefer it was extra different rock that was fashionable, so this group of bands that you just’d presumably name nü-metal, or different steel and occasions like Ozzfest actually introduced steel again to the mainstream.

“All these bands like us, Korn and whoever had been getting performed on mainstream radio and actually helped put steel again in a great place. However then you definitely had these bands that got here alongside that every one sounded related and I feel that is when it began to lose respect. It grew to become cookie cutter and each label wished their very own model of no matter band was large at the moment. Good luck discovering 4 Armenian guys! The bands that got here up in that scene to begin with like us, Korn and Deftones had been simply making an attempt to do one thing unique and take steel to an entire different degree, mesh in several issues.”

Elsewhere in the identical interview, Malakian notes that he has the third Daron Malakian And Scars On Broadway (beforehand generally known as simply Scars On Broadway) document all completed up, however hasn’t had the time to get it out into the world. Daron Malakian And Scars On Broadway performed their first two exhibits in 5 years earlier this month.