Shavo Odadjian: If it was as much as me, System of a Down would’ve had 10 albums out by now

System of a Down’s Shavo Odadjian at 2019 Sonic Temple Competition, picture by Amy Harris

With bands like Instrument and Rammstein ending lengthy album droughts this 12 months, there are nonetheless no encouraging indicators of recent music from System of a Down. Nevertheless, if it was as much as bassist Shavo Odadjian, System would have launched not just one however a handful of LPs since their final album.

System of a Down’s most up-to-date album was Hypnotize, which was launched in November 2005. Which means we’re arising on 14 years since we’ve gotten new music from the multiplatinum steel band. Sure, that’s longer than the 13-year hole between Instrument’s 10,000 Days and the upcoming Concern Inoculum, due out August 30th.

After we spoke with Odadjian late final 12 months, he advised us that System had “materials that tops every thing we’ve finished”, and expressed hope that at some point the band would certainly report a brand new album, regardless of inventive variations between important songwriters Daron Malakian and Serj Tankian.

In a brand new interview, Odadjian was pressed by SiriusXM radio host Eddie Trunk in regards to the lack of recent music from System, and the bassist stated that there was some extent a pair years in the past when the band obtained collectively, minus Tankian, to work on new music. “We obtained in and wrote, like, about 10 or 11 songs. Daron introduced, like, seven or eight songs; I introduced 4 or 5 concepts in that turned songs. Minus Serj’s vocals, after all. It was actually good. It got here out actually nice. And I hope to at some point return to these and use a few of Serj’s stuff. I do know Serj’s obtained some stuff.”

Odadjian himself doesn’t perceive why the band members can’t simply put their inventive variations apart. “In my world, man, why it isn’t taking place is a giant query,” he remarked. “I believe we will recover from something ’trigger it’s not like somebody’s finished something so horrible that we will’t recover from it – ain’t nothing like that. It’s simply inventive variations which might be lasting somewhat too lengthy for me, for my style.”

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When Trunk talked about the frustration of the bands’ followers, the bassist replied, “I’m a kind of followers. I swear to God, dude. I actually would like to have finished it. I imply, like I stated: if it was as much as me, we might have by no means stopped. We’d have been on our most likely ninth or 10th report now.”

For now, System proceed to carry out stay, albeit sporadically. We caught the band again in Could once they headlined the Sonic Temple Competition in Columbus, Ohio.

Hear Odadjian tackle System of a Down’s standing with Trunk within the participant beneath.