It’s been 18 years since alt-metal titans System of a Down put out a brand new studio document, however that hasn’t stopped followers from holding out hope that one thing — something — can be coming sooner or later. Inter-personal friction and disinterest appear to be the hurdles throughout the band and it’s led some band members to carry others answerable for the dearth of a brand new album.

Throughout a latest interview with Sobre La Dosis, bassist Shavo Odadjian revealed that the band remains to be very a lot on a break from writing new music, regardless of having only in the near past carried out at Sick New World in Las Vegas final month.

“Not within the close to future. We’re nonetheless on a musical hiatus/artistic hiatus, however we [played] at Sick New World in Las Vegas. And I’ve obtained a solo document popping out very quickly. That’s heavy and it’s huge. It’s not hip-hop, it’s simply loopy. Normally, all my facet initiatives have been form of hip-hop-y or electro, however I went down and needed to do one thing that felt proper to me from day one. That’s my DNA, so look out for the solo document.”

That’s just about been the M.O. of System of a Down members in recent times: “we will’t get collectively to work on music, so we’re doing our personal solo efforts.” All 4 members have put out their very own initiatives within the 18 years since Hypnotize and Mezmerize got here out again in 2005.

That being stated, the band has since launched new music, releasing singles “Shield the Land” and “Genocidal Humanoidz” in 2020 as a part of a profit effort to assist the Armenia Fund. That being stated, nevertheless, each of these songs have been initially written by Daron Malakian for his solo venture Scars on Broadway, in order that kinda doesn’t depend.

Whether or not there’s some inside strife or some members simply don’t need to do it anymore, it’s going to be a looong time earlier than we get a brand new System of a Down album. If we ever get one…