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Daron Preps New Band!? |
Posted by markimsoad on Friday, June 09, 2006 - 12:03 AM
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 System
Of A Down's post-Ozzfest life will include a new band for guitarist Daron
Malakian. The artist is in the process of forming and writing songs for Scars On
Broadway, which will start operating in earnest once Ozzfest wraps in
mid-August. The band is shooting to have its debut album out in the summer of
2007.
"I'm still kind of getting the whole band together at this point," reports
Malakian, "After I get back home from Ozzfest
that's pretty much what I'll be focusing on.
"I think a System fan will be able to relate to the music, but there's a few
different directions I want to take, whether it be a little bit more ethnic or
sometimes electronic," he adds. "There's just a few artistic directions I want
to take with Scars that I haven't taken with System yet."
Malakian says that so far he's brought in a drummer/percussionist to be part of
the band and says that SOAD bassist Shavo Odadjian will likely join as well.
Odadjian is also working on an album collaboration with the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA [click
here for more details]
The new band does not mean SOAD will be splitting up. But after 10-plus years of
constant work -- including last year's pair of chart-topping albums, "Mezmerize"
and "Hypnotize" -- Malakian says the group does plan to take a lengthy break.
"People are just gonna assume that we're breaking up, but we're not calling it
that," he explains. "We just want to go off and do a few other things. If we
were breaking up we wouldn't be able to get on stage together for this tour."
SOAD is about to begin rehearsals for Ozzfest, which kicks off June 29 in
Seattle [Check the Tour dates]. The quartet will be
headlining most of the shows in place of Ozzy Osbourne, who will only play on 10
dates this summer. Malakian says his band is feeling the weight of that role.
"There's something about having history along with the music," he notes, "and
Ozzy and Black Sabbath have been around over 30 years with people growing up
listening to them. There's a history and a connection with people. System isn't
a brand new band but we're not 30 years old, either. So it brings a lot of
pressure to come through and bring something to the table that hopefully will
keep up with that."
-from
billboard
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Comments
Karanime
25.06.06, 23:00
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One more thing... you realize they take breaks anyway? They took a break between every album. Even though Daron kept writing it's not like they focused their lives on it every second of the day... So yeah... breaks are no big deal.
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Geezer1220
26.06.06, 06:36
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I want to be in the new band.
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209116032
27.06.06, 22:35
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Well, I geuss it's good that daron can do his own thing too. I mean, Serj did Serart, AOJ, and Buckethead+friends. Shavo is doing hisDJ thing. They deserve their time off ^^
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