DARON MALAKIAN Isn’t Sure He Wants To Write New SYSTEM OF A DOWN Anymore

Issues have been wanting respectable for a possible new System Of A Down report this 12 months.

The band is presently slated to play 13 exhibits – essentially the most exhibits they’ve performed since 2017 – and according to bassist Shavo Odadjian in a current interview with Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, everybody’s getting alongside higher than they’ve shortly. Odadjian mentioned System Of A Down is “testing the waters” for extra potential exhibits, which in fact we have been all hoping would translate into some writing classes.

Although if you happen to ask System Of A Down guitarist Daron Malakian, new materials in all probability is not taking place. In an interview with Tetragrammaton With Rick Rubin, Malakian mentioned he is happy with every part System Of A Down has completed however does not see how a brand new report 20 years later would not match their general story.

“I am happy with the data. I do not stay with any remorse of something like that,” mentioned Malakian. “However it might have been good to see the place the band would have developed if we saved placing music out. If we put out an album now, it is simply so distant from [Hypnotize and Mezmerize], it does not proceed the story to me.”

Malakian continued: “There was a time that [making a new System Of A Down record] may need been one thing I needed. I am unsure how a lot I need that anymore — I am certain individuals will not be too blissful to listen to that from me. I am not on the identical place I used to be perhaps 10 years in the past.”

Malakian later mentions he is obtained a brand new report with Daron Malakian And Scars On Broadway coming in 2025, a piece of which was materials he had sitting round for System Of A Down a while in the past. System Of A Down‘s touring plans for 2025 – devoid of any new track debuts – are as follows:

4/24 Bogota, Columbia Estadio Nemesio Camacho El Campin
4/27 Lima, Peru Estadio Nacional
4/30 Santigo, Chile Parque Estadio Nacional
5/3 Buenos Aires, Argentina Estadio Velez Sarsfield
5/6 Curitiba, Brazila Estadio Couto Pereira
5/8 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Estadio Nilton Santos
5/10 São Paulo, Brazil Allianz Parque
8/27 MetLife Stadium East Rutherford, NJ (System Of A Down, Korn, Polyphia & Wisp)
8/28 MetLife Stadium East Rutherford, NJ (System Of A Down, Korn, Polyphia & Wisp)
8/31 Soldier Area Chicago, IL (System Of A Down, Avenged Sevenfold, Polyphia & Wisp)
9/1 Soldier Area Chicago, IL (System Of A Down, Avenged Sevenfold, Polyphia & Wisp)
9/3 Rogers Stadium Toronto, ON (System Of A Down, Deftones, Polyphia & Wisp)
9/5 Rogers Stadium Toronto, ON (System Of A Down, Deftones, Polyphia & Wisp)