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System of a Down

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Alternative Metal

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28 апр 2025 :	Watch: SYSTEM OF A DOWN Kicks Off Spring 2025 South American Tour In Bogota
11 мар 2025 :	SYSTEM OF A DOWN's JOHN DOLMAYAN Is 'Glad' DONALD TRUMP Is President Again: 'It Brings A Little Sanity Back'
31 янв 2025 :	SYSTEM OF A DOWN's 'Toxicity' Video Surpasses One Billion Views On YouTube
29 янв 2025 :	SYSTEM OF A DOWN's SHAVO ODADJIAN Explains Band's Heavier Touring Schedule In 2025: We Are 'Testing The Waters'
27 янв 2025 :	SHAVO ODADJIAN: 'If A New SYSTEM OF A DOWN Album Happens, It Needs To Be Amazing'
22 ноя 2024 :	SYSTEM OF A DOWN's SHAVO ODADJIAN On 'Nu Metal': 'It's Not A Style. It Was An Era.'
2 ноя 2024 :	JOHN DOLMAYAN: New SYSTEM OF A DOWN Album Would Have To Happen 'Organically'
6 окт 2024 :	SYSTEM OF A DOWN's SHAVO ODADJIAN: 'People Think We're Broken Up Because We Haven't Made Music'
27 сен 2024 :	SYSTEM OF A DOWN's SHAVO ODADJIAN Picks METALLICA's 'Master Of Puppets' Over 'Ride The Lightning', Explains Why
26 сен 2024 :	SYSTEM OF A DOWN's SERJ TANKIAN Reflects On His Most Embarrassing Onstage Moment
19 сен 2024 :	SYSTEM OF A DOWN's JOHN DOLMAYAN Announces His New Original Comic Book Series 'Dead Samurai'
19 сен 2024 :	SHAVO ODADJIAN On New SYSTEM OF A DOWN Music: 'My Door Is Always Open With That'
22 авг 2024 :	SERJ TANKIAN: 'SYSTEM OF A DOWN's Value In Terms Of Touring Has Grown Exponentially The Less We've Toured'
11 июл 2024 :	SERJ TANKIAN Would 'Absolutely' Be Okay With SYSTEM OF A DOWN Continuing With New Singer
2 июл 2024 :	SERJ TANKIAN On Differences With His SYSTEM OF A DOWN Bandmates: 'The Option Has Always Been There For The Band To Move On Without Me'
13 июн 2024 :	SERJ TANKIAN Reveals What It Would Take For SYSTEM OF A DOWN To Release New Studio Album
22 май 2024 :	SYSTEM OF A DOWN's SERJ TANKIAN Says He Has Had To Deal With Some 'Delusional Cases' Of 'Fanaticism'
18 май 2024 :	SERJ TANKIAN Wanted To Address SYSTEM OF A DOWN's Creative Differences By Taking The Sensationalist Aspect Out Of It
14 май 2024 :	SERJ TANKIAN Addresses 'Creative Differences' In SYSTEM OF A DOWN, Says He Is 'Not Thrilled About Doing Long Tours'
30 апр 2024 :	SYSTEM OF A DOWN Performs Live For First Time In 11 Months At Las Vegas's SICK NEW WORLD Festival
17 апр 2024 :	Watch SYSTEM OF A DOWN Rehearse 'Cigaro' For Appearance At SICK NEW WORLD Festival
11 янв 2024 :	SYSTEM OF A DOWN's JOHN DOLMAYAN To KANYE WEST: 'Show Some Class, Man'
8 дек 2023 :	SHAVO ODADJIAN Names 'Coolest' Things He Has Experienced As A Member Of SYSTEM OF A DOWN
26 окт 2023 :	SYSTEM OF A DOWN Drummer Claims He Lost 'Hundreds Of Thousands Of Fans' Who 'Couldn't Handle' His Opinions
24 май 2023 :	SYSTEM OF A DOWN's SHAVO ODADJIAN Doesn't Think About Hypothetical ROCK HALL Induction: 'It Doesn't Drive Me'
15 май 2023 :	Watch: SYSTEM OF A DOWN Plays First Concert Of 2023 At SICK NEW WORLD Festival In Las Vegas

6 окт 2024

SYSTEM OF A DOWN's SHAVO ODADJIAN: 'People Think We're Broken Up Because We Haven't Made Music'

In a new interview with Australia's Wall Of Sound, Shavo Odadjian spoke SYSTEM OF A DOWN's inability to make the follow-up to its "Mezmerize" and "Hypnotize" LPs, which came out in 2005. The Serj Tankian-fronted outfit has toured intermittently since ending its hiatus in 2011 but has yet to record any new music. The 50-year-old Armenian-American Shavo, born Shavarsh Odadjian, said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "We had one show in '23. We had two shows in '24. I'm hoping to have four to seven shows in '25. So we'll gradually come and do more shows. But at least it's happening. So I'll take what I can get from that."

He continued: "I love [the other guys in the band] and I love the music and I love doing it. I would do it every day, but it takes four people to do what we do. And I respect everyone's wishes and everyone's feelings, and if someone's not ready, they're not ready. I can't force them, man. And no one should. And it's never because I hate or someone hates or there's a problem. There's nothing like that. It's just not the moment. When it's there, it's there."

Shavo added: "We're not broken up. People think we're broken up because we haven't made music. Yeah, there's creative differences, and that happens. But it doesn't mean that we can't be on stage together and we can't rehearse together. And I hang out with John [Dolmayan, SYSTEM OF A DOWN drummer] daily — John and I are like brothers. And I love the other two. I don't see them as much, but when I do see them, it's like we never stopped hanging out. It's like that type of friendship. We're always gonna be friends no matter what."

Last month, Shavo told Chuck Armstrong of Loudwire Nights about the possibility of SYSTEM OF A DOWN one day making a follow-up to its "Mezmerize" and "Hypnotize" LPs: "Listen, bro, my door is always open with that. I have a hundred riffs waiting, if they need anything for me. The way it would work was Daron [Malakian, SYSTEM OF A DOWN guitarist] would come in and he'd have complete songs, which I fucking respect, man. The dude's a fucking sick-ass songwriter. And then Serj would have songs he'd bring in complete. It would just be Serj's were a little different than what the mold of SYSTEM became. So we would use some of it, but not all of it. And I feel like that's where the disconnect happened. It wasn't like someone fucking cursed anybody. It wasn't like someone banged anyone's girl or cussed out… Nothing happened that you can't be cool with. We're still cool with each other. We walk on stage. We love each other. So there's always gonna be that. I wanna always play shows with them. And you never know, bro. I'm always gonna leave that door open. It shouldn't be shut."

Shavo went on to say that "it's a fucking shame that" new music from SYSTEM OF A DOWN is "not happening, because we can do so much. Look, we went in, we did two songs four years ago. How they sound, man. I mean, that could be an album of that shit. And we can even write crazier songs. That was quick. Daron brought a few of those in — boom, boom, boom — and the song was done; it was, like, two days. Imagine if it was going in and writing actual music and caring about the album. 'Cause we compose albums. We're not, like, songwriters. We're songwriters that make albums. It's all about the composition of the album."

This past June, Tankian, who has been promoting his recently released memoir "Down With The System", was asked in an interview with The Jesea Lee Show what it would take for him and his SYSTEM OF A DOWN bandmates to release a new studio album,. He responded: "Egalitarian approach to everything within the band. [In other words] kind of more equality in terms of sourcing of the music, in terms of splitting everything, including publishing, in terms of ideas, in terms of sharing the vision — that kind of stuff."

He continued: "It's in the book. We call it a manifesto jokingly because I wrote points down that, years ago when I had some new songs that I thought would be amazing with SYSTEM, and so I played it for the guys. And I said, 'Guys, I've got an idea of a vision, a different way forward that I think would be very beneficial for the band.' And I presented it — we call it a manifesto in the book almost half jokingly, but bringing a manifesto to rock musicians is… [Laughs] I guess it doesn't work — it doesn't work. But I was trying to instill the same type of egalitarian principles as I love as an activist within whatever I do. And at that time, it didn't work, but maybe it will one day. We'll see."

"Down With The System" was released on May 14 via Hachette Books. In the memoir, Serj revealed that his SYSTEM OF A DOWN bandmates had auditioned a new vocalist after he had asked out of the group in 2017. Serj said that his disdain for touring led to his decision to tell his bandmates to carry on without him so they could continue living their dream. Tankian later learned that the band had begun looking at new singers, and he also shared that in "more recent years", he had pitched a close friend as a potential replacement but he didn't think the band ever seriously considered the offer.

In May, Tankian explained to Patrick Ritter of the WSOU 89.5 FM radio station why he felt, from SYSTEM OF A DOWN's early days, that the complex dynamics within the band and the resulting clash of egos and creative tensions would ultimately led to the group's demise. The singer said in part: "John [Dolmayan], my drummer who's also my brother-in-law, recently — he's got an incredible memory. My memory is not as good, but he basically said, 'Yeah, ever since '99, you were looking and going, 'This can't continue this way.'' And I think it had a lot to do with the discrepancy between our attitude and Daron's attitude toward the band and toward everything that was happening. I think for Daron, he had grown up with this becoming his everything. In John's case, for example, even though he's played drums since he was eight years old — I think it was eight — he's done many, many things in life. He's had a comic book company. Shavo's done other things as well, even though music's been a big part of his life. But for Daron, it was the only thing. And I had done many things in life — worked in different industries, got a college degree and went into music almost late, later than all the other guys, definitely. So I think there was a lack of appreciation of stuff happening or whatever it was. I can't remember the exact circumstance, but I felt like there was something wrong with this puzzle that I don't think we could solve from a very early time. And music had become my everything at that time. I had screamed at the gods saying that I wanna do music. And I knew that was my vision. I knew I'd be doing music for the rest of my life, no matter what, with or without SYSTEM OF A DOWN, 'cause that was my calling. But early on, I could see that schism, that schism developing."

Tankian previously addressed how his relationship with Malakian has evolved over the years, particularly as it relates to their collaborative partnership, earlier last month in an interview with Tom Power, host of "Q" on Canada's CBC Radio One. He said: "Well, changing the dynamic is basically years of time and the progression of the band, the success of the band, everything that happened in between the day that we met and now, basically, so 25, 30 years. A lot changes in that time. And so I think that's a part of it.

"Daron's been a lifer and he's incredibly serious about his music and he's incredibly protective of his music and vulnerable due to his music," Serj explained. "All of those things kind of go together. So it's those things, I think, that created some of the creative differences that we started finding. And it's also our progression. Listen, when Daron and I started working together, I didn't really write a lot of instrumental music — I mostly wrote lyrics; I was the lyricist; I was the singer. And he didn't write any lyrics; he just wrote music. But as time progressed and I played more musical instruments and I started becoming a songwriter/composer and he started writing more lyrics, we started kind of covering each other's territory. And I was okay with that. If he wrote lyrics, I was trying to encourage him to write more, because I believe in artistic growth. I believe in progression. I don't believe in things staying the same way, for music's sake. Otherwise the music becomes the same thing over and over again. That progression is necessary in every artist's life or in every group's life. So I was very encouraging of that. And I just wish that I got some of that back. And so that wasn't the case, and it was disappointing. And it became a creative difference over the band's path, and whatnot, over time."

Asked why he wanted to write about this in his book, Serj said: "A lot of it has been publicized in a very sensationalist format by media, music media mostly, and I kind of wanted to put it in a proper perspective and grounding perspective, but with love and with balance and understanding that these things happen. This is normal. You have a relationship and you have differences in opinion as [to] how you wanna go forward, whether it's a band or a marriage or whatever it is. And these things happen. And so I wanted to take that aspect out, I wanted to take the sensationalist aspect out of the whole thing and be, like, this is not only what happened, but this is how I see things."

Tankian also addressed the fact that SYSTEM OF A DOWN has toured intermittently since ending its hiatus in 2011, but has only managed to record two songs in the last 19 years, "Protect The Land" and "Genocidal Humanoidz". Released in November 2020, the tracks were motivated by the conflict between Artsakh and Azerbaijan, with all proceeds supporting humanitarian efforts in SYSTEM OF A DOWN's ancestral homeland of Armenia. Along with other donations from fans on their social pages, they raised over $600,000.

"We haven't been making new music," Serj said. "We only put out two songs when the invasion of Artsakh, Nagorno Karabakh happened in 2020 by Azerbaijan, because we felt like the Azeri trolls, the government-sponsored trolls were taking over social media and the news networks, and the victims of these attacks weren't getting the word out. So we became kind of obsessed with getting the word out, because we were seeing our people suffer. So we put out those two songs because of that and we donated a lot of the proceeds for that to the cause as well."

Asked how he balances the love and obligation he might feel toward his fans, those who love SYSTEM OF A DOWN, and the internal struggles within the band, Tankian said: "That's an incredibly smart question. It's really hard catering — when you're an artist, it's really hard catering. If you're an entertainer, catering is [what you do], but if you're an artist, then you're just creating what comes to you. You're almost unaware of what people want. Yes, if it's something heavier, you know people are gonna like it more. But if you're a good songwriter, you could do both. I do orchestral music, I do film music, I do rock music — I do it all. So I enjoy 'em all, but I know that if I do rock, more people are going to listen to it than a piano, instrumental orchestral piece of music, soundtrack kind of music. But it doesn't mean that you don't do both, as an artist. So it's hard to really cater to people's feelings. What I love is, and I know that I can speak for the rest of the guys in the band, that no matter what's going on with our creative difference or the band not making new music or not touring fully or whatever, everyone's incredibly appreciative of what we have in terms of the love that we get from our fans and the way that people react to our music and the way that we get all these e-mails about how it's changed people's lives and all of that stuff, and that is mind-blowing. It's the biggest honor. And when I meet people on the street, I'm still incredibly honored that someone would pick me out and look at me in a positive light, not knowing who I am personally, but knowing me through my music, through our music, let's say. And I think that's a great fucking honor. I feel blessed for it. But it doesn't mean that that thing should continue forever either."

Shavo's new band SEVEN HOURS AFTER VIOLET will release its self-titled debut album on October 11 via the Sumerian Records imprint 1336 Records. Shavo is joined in the group by vocalist Taylor Barber (LEFT TO SUFFER),WINDS OF PLAGUE guitarist Michael Montoya (a.k.a. Morgoth Beatz, a producer and songwriter who has previously collaborated with Travis Barker, JuiceWrld, Lil Xan, Jonathan Davis, ISSUES and many more),guitarist/backing vocalist Alejandro Aranda (a.k.a. Scarypoolparty, "American Idol") and drummer Josh Johnson (WINDS OF PLAGUE).

SEVEN HOURS AFTER VIOLET will make its live debut at this year's Mayhem festival, set to take place on October 12 at the Glen Helen Amphitheatre in San Bernardino.

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6 окт 2024

Corpsegrinder04

Да пох на вас, заепли своим нытьём уже. Пиздуйте в Арцах со своим ансамблем песни и пляски.

6 окт 2024

Вашингтон Ирвинг

Corpsegrinder04, В Азербайджан не пускают людей с армянскими фамилиями независимо от гражданства.

6 окт 2024

WahrandPhain

их ждут в Стамбуле с концертами

7 окт 2024

Gleb Monster

WahrandPhain, В каждой шутке… Знаю от приятеля-турка, что у них дохрена фанатов СОАД, ровно как и ненавистников. Причины ненависти ясны, а любят, как ни странно, за музло.

7 окт 2024

Вашингтон Ирвинг

Gleb Monster, Хз, конкретно про СОАД, но прям с армянами проблем нет. Я в Стамбуле был в первый раз в 20-м году, владельцы хостела говорили на русском (крымские татары), спрашиваю «щемят ли армян сейчас тут?», на что мне ответили, что нихуя, очень много бизнеса армяне держат, как и 150 лет назад, никто их не трогает.

7 окт 2024

Nord61

Вашингтон Ирвинг, +100. В Стамбуле десятки тысяч армян живут, армянских церквей штук 60, и армянские школы есть, и пресса на их языке, и политики-армяне. Никто их там не щемит давным-давно, они сами больше пылят на эту тему.
Меня эта их забубённость поражает иногда. Во время Второй мировой немцы уничтожили мирных русских, поляков, белорусов и украинцев на порядки больше, чем турки армян - и никто чёт не воняет. А этих и через век с лишним всё никак не отпустит.

7 окт 2024

gravitgroove

Nord61, Не только их не отпускает. Может быть, это и правильно, но с другой стороны,
репарации им пока никто не выплачивает, возможно, пока.

7 окт 2024

Nord61

gravitgroove, там ситуация такая, что репараций они вряд ли дождутся. Дело в том, что по донесениям русских генералов резня армян 1915-го была спровоцирована ими же, когда армяне начали вырезать турок целыми сёлами в восточной части Анатолии, воспользовавшись тем, что османская армия была втянута в Первую мировую войну.
Причём размах был такой, что русские солдаты и казаки были вынуждены защищать крестьян-турок (с чьей страной, вообще-то, находились в состоянии войны) от армянских банд, о чём старшие офицеры и докладывали Николаю II.
Учитывая тот факт, что армяне тогда тоже были подданными Османской империи, стамбульская администрация расценила их действия, как предательство в военное время (с чем и связаны столь зверские антиармянские действия султана и его министров).
Масла в огонь добавляет то, что Ереван наглухо засекретил все находящиеся в его распоряжении документы о тех событиях, и наотрез отказал Анкаре в совместном расследовании и опубликовании этих документов (провести его турки предлагали ещё в президенство Абдуллы Гюля). Так что, вся эта история довольно дурно пахнет.

7 окт 2024

Вашингтон Ирвинг

Nord61, Я дошел как-то до Trump Towers, там рядом есть армянская организация, не посольство - флагов нет, скорее всего как раз школа, у неё очень крутое здание, огромная ухоженная территория, благоустройство, полный фарш.
Про церкви армянские - я почему-то только одну заброшенную вспомнил, которая по дороге от стадиона Бешикташ в сторону центра находится. Но вообще в целом в Стамбуле как будто бы мало церквей функционирующих и других конфессий, хотя католическая на улице Истикляль цветет и пахнет, был там в канун Рождества, очень красиво украсили, на её фоне фоткались турки и китайцы)

7 окт 2024

gravitgroove

Gleb Monster, В Турции Армян (Амшенцев) 500к человек, если что.

7 окт 2024

Gleb Monster

gravitgroove, За что купил, за то и продаю

10 окт 2024

Mt. Erebus

Gleb Monster, ненавидят за то, что косят под армянских дохуяпоцриотов, хотя из собственно армении только басист вроде, а все остальные блядь с ближнего востока?

6 окт 2024

Mistis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg77OW18jjk&ab_channel=Thed0b3R