In recent years, the state of System Of A Down has seemed to be in flux. Singer Serj Tankian has said that he would be fine if the band got a new singer, and there have been several conflicting reports as to the band’s future on stage and in the recording studio. The band, however, has recently said there’s no bad blood between members and that they haven’t broken up.
In a new interview with Brazil’s 89FM, drummer John Dolmayan and bassist Shavo Odadjian talked about the possibility of a new SOAD album, but the outlook for that looks grim.
“I wouldn’t count on a System of a Down album anytime soon,” Dolmayan said. ”It’s very unlikely that it will happen, but if it does happen, it’ll be because it’s organic and the four of us just decide one day, ‘Okay, we don’t care about what happened in the past. We don’t care if we have differences, either artistically or emotionally. We’re just gonna get together and do it, and it’ll be something that happens spontaneously.’ Because if we try to plan it, the anxiety involved with that will be too much. It’ll splinter the band too much.”
Odadjian said that expectations have been high for a new record, but that if it does happen, it would be on the down-low. “It’s been built up too much,” he said. “The time that has passed is so long, so much that I feel like if it were to happen, like John said, it would have to happen without thinking: ‘Let’s do it.’ We go in, we don’t announce it, we don’t talk about it, we do it, and then you hear it without big news about it. It’s the only way.”
Dolmayan added: “We do have songs that we worked on several years ago, and they’re pretty incredible.”
The pair’s full interview can be viewed below.
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