I should have taken more time.ĭO YOU REGRET ANY OF THE MUSIC YOU PUT OUT? It was just a little soon after System of a Down had stopped. I'm doing it this time because I want to do something. I was doing it because I felt like I had to start something new. I'm not sure it was the right time for me to do something new - creatively, emotionally. WHAT HAPPENED?Īt that time, System had just stopped, so I felt like I had to start this brand new thing. WHEN YOU FIRST GOT SCARS ON BROADWAY GOING, THINGS WERE JUST GETTING IN MOTION WHEN YOU STOPPED IT SUDDENLY. It's nice after such a long time to get something out and get something going. There will probably be a follow-up to this album sometime next year. I actually have a whole new batch of songs that I'm about to go into the studio in the next few months and record. YOU'VE SAID THE MUSIC ON DICTATOR HAS BEEN FINISHED FOR SIX YEARS.ĭARON MALAKIAN It's been completely finished for a while. "That's when they can see their own life inside a song." "I really enjoy when people take a song and make it their own," Malakian enthuses. In the coming year, he'll bring the music of Dictator and other songs on the road, where he hopes to demonstrate to fans that he's fully back in action as a creative force. There is also the tense, SOAD-like metal of "Angry Guru" and the instrumental "Gie Mou," blending Mediterranean folk and spaghetti western twang on electric guitar. The first single is "Lives," which marked the 103rd anniversary of the Armenian genocide with lyrics and a vivid music video that celebrate the culture that survived that tragedy: "We are the people who were kicked out of history/We are the people who exist in victory." This July, he will release Dictator, his first album of new music in a decade, under the name Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway. Six years ago, Malakian recorded a second Scars album on his own, playing each instrument himself, and yet chose to sit on those tracks in case they were needed for a new System album. While they've thrived as a live act in the years since, their occasional talk of recording new music hasn't led them back into a studio. He reemerged for System's first reunion tour in 2011.
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