Serj Tankian has been doing tons of press concerning his new guide Down With The System. Naturally, this implies tons of speak about System Of A Down and their lack of a brand new album for rattling close to 20 years.
Tankian lately revealed that he supplied to go away System Of A Down in 2017 if the band could find a new singer, and touched a bit of on his differences with guitarist Daron Malakian. Now in an interview with Spin, Tankian revealed that he and Malakian‘s concepts over whose materials must be labored on have been a ache level throughout the band.
“I used to be determined to collaborate, to be artistic, however every little thing throughout the band felt inflexible and rigid,” wrote Tankian. “If I discussed that I had a tune I needed us to take a crack at, Daron would by no means outright refuse, however it was at all times ‘Let’s work on that one subsequent week,’ or ‘How about we end up this batch of songs first?’ We hardly ever ever appeared to get to my songs.”
Tankian provides that he was able to work on new materials in 2018 and got here in with a “bullet-pointed manifesto” outlining his phrases, which included {that a} new file function half his songs and half Malakian‘s. Clearly that did not work out and right here we’re. On the way forward for System Of A Down, Tankian appears… barely optemistic?
“Daron defines himself as the first songwriter for System. It is essential to him. Will that ever change? I do not know. However I do not see it negatively anymore as a result of I perceive it higher. That does not imply I’ve to create music in that capability. As for a future System file, the saying goes, ‘No one is aware of!'”
Elaborating on the artistic wall, Tankian merely mentioned he isn’t inquisitive about making the identical album time and again: “Bands aren’t meant to do the identical factor time and again. I by no means thought bands ought to final endlessly as a result of that is a detriment to the artwork. It creates redundancy and repetition. Positive, there’s exceptions, and I do not wish to sound like a dick and take away from what folks like to do, however I feel most artists ought to simply make x variety of data. That mentioned, I like seeing artists collaborate, like when Chris Cornell did Temple of the Canine.”
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