System Of A Down bassist Shavo Odadjian has offered fans an update on the band’s future release prospects.
In a new interview with SiriusXM, Odadjian revealed that in recent years the band got together —with the exception of Serj Tankian— to work on new music. “We got in and wrote, like, about 10 or 11 songs. Daron brought, like, seven or eight songs; I brought four or five ideas in that became songs. Minus Serj’s vocals, of course. It was really good. It came out really great. And I hope to one day go back to those and use some of Serj’s stuff. I know Serj’s got some stuff.”
The likelihood of a new System Of A Down record has been hot and cold for years. Last year, guitarist Daron Malakian and drummer John Dolmayan have explained that there’s “one member” holding the band back from releasing new music, it was soon revealed that the cause of this delay is their frontman Serj Tankian.
A claim that Tankian himself vouched for when he revealed that he was the cause for the band’s hiatus, and didn’t even want to be involved in their last two albums.
“It is true that I and only I was responsible for the hiatus SOAD took in 2006,” Tankian revealed. “Everyone else wanted to continue at the same pace to tour and make records.”
Odadjian has expressed his frustration over the rest of the band’s inability to put their creative differences aside. “In my world, man, why it isn’t happening is a big question,” he shared. “I think we can get over anything ’cause it’s not like someone’s done anything so horrible that we can’t get over it – ain’t nothing like that. It’s just creative differences that are lasting a little too long for me, for my taste.”
When the host brought up the frustration of the band’s fans, Odadjian empathised, “I’m one of those fans. I swear to God, dude. I really would love to have done it. I mean, like I said: if it was up to me, we would have never stopped. We would have been on our probably ninth or 10th record now.”
System Of A Down released their last record, Hypnotize, in 2005.
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