Serj recently noted recently that he would be reappropriating songs he wrote for a potential new SOAD album for his own solo work. Serj was already checked out, basically ten years ago. We really begged him to make those records. He included one other line that is sure to shock long-time SOAD fans: "Bands are like brands, I suppose, and that's kind of frustrating for me," Daron told Kerrang!"To be honest with you, Serj didn't even want to make Mezmerize and Hypnotize. So I feel like the whole experience of becoming the lead singer in a hugely successful band was different for him than my experience was for me." I'm the kid that grew up with Slayer and KISS on my walls. "I don't know if he has the same love for this kind of music as I do. "Serj was never really a heavy metal or a rock guy," Daron said. We've all sat down and we've had meetings, and he's totally set in his way of thinking.
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He continued: "I don't want to throw Serj under the bus - he's my friend and he's someone that I care about - but I don't know how to change his mind. There was a time, I think, when I would have taken this a little bit more personally, but not anymore. If it was up to me, System would have never gone on hiatus."Īsked how the creative differences between him and Serj are going to be resolved, Daron said: "It may never be resolved or it may be, but so far it hasn't been.
Right now, if everyone got together and was ready to play ball, I have an album ready. "There's just a certain way that System make albums, and there's a bunch of us that want to make an album that way and there is, I guess, one of us" - apparently referring to singer Serj Tankian - "that doesn't want to make an album that way and wants to make an album his way," Daron said. In a new interview with Kerrang!, Daron says he's not sure he can ever change Serj's mind: He has made it clear the other members of the band are down to work on new music (in fact, other members are working on new music). Malakian also says that his new Scars On Broadway album could've very well been new System Of A Down, but too much time was going by and he wanted to use the material for something. Taken as a whole, "Mezmerize/Hypnotize" still fares better than most projects of the same size: I'd say there's a great album and a half here when all is said and done.Guitarist Daron Malakian said recently that creative differences are the main holdup. Clearly the least interesting of all four (or five, if you count "Steal…") of SYSTEM's albums, "Hypnotize" is not a fatal blunder by any means but just proof that even the most creative and unique of musical acts can occasionally come up thin. Several old and new SYSTEM trademarks are still in abundance on "Hypnotize", such as the band's abrupt swings between political lyrics and bizarre food metaphors (like "Banana terracotta terracotta pie" on "Vicinity of Obscenity") and the increased vocal presence of guitarist Daron Malakian, whose voice here is not as annoying as it was on "Mezmerize". Some appealing surf influences crop up on songs like "Stealing Society" and "She's Like Heroin", but the most generic tunes on the album are the thrashier ones like "Attack" and "Dreaming". In fact, it's the slower songs here that are the most memorable, such as the album's penultimate track, "Lonely Day", a poignant meditation on death. The title track is effortlessly catchy, while "Tentative" has the somber, haunting quality and powerful hooks of previous SYSTEM classics like "Aerials" and "Sad Statue". Still, this is SYSTEM OF A DOWN, one of the most original heavy rock bands to come along in the last decade, so even a weaker record by the band (like its 2002 collection of "Toxicity" leftovers, "Steal This Album!") has plenty of interesting and sometimes brilliant moments. Many of its musical themes sound like rehashes of better songs on "Mezmerize", and the tunes themselves simply aren't as good or powerful as those on the earlier album. Yet, oddly enough, "Hypnotize" is the lesser of the two. Both releases are clearly the product of the same recording sessions, and the band insists that they form one complete work. In the case of SYSTEM OF A DOWN, the band deflected the "double album" stigma by releasing their magnum opus in two pieces: "Mezmerize" came out in May, while the second half, "Hypnotize", arrived at the end of November.
With the rare exception of a concept record like THE WHO's "Tommy" or PINK FLOYD's "The Wall", even acclaimed collections like the SMASHING PUMPKINS' "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" or GUNS N' ROSES' massive "Use Your Illusion 1 & 2" are seen as solid single albums hidden in a sprawling, excessive package and surrounded by filler. Double album sets have often been seen as an indulgence by an artist or band overcome with their own confidence in their creativity and abilities.
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