System of a Down Band • Page 6

This ought to be interesting.

 

the elasticity of our city

 

I missed seeing angry, wild-eyed Serj in a SOAD music video lol

 

This is really interesting to hear and know it was supposed to be for SOAD. Sheeeit. It's a pretty good song on it's own, but it's easy to hear how letting Daron get his hands on the guitar tracks and adding his own shit, and having him sing some of those higher melodies and letting Serj sing louder in a lower octave would have fucking rocked.

This probably would have been all over the radio if this was released as a SOAD song. Damn.

 

Good interview. Don't think I could be in a band with a Trump guy, but it's gotta be even tougher when it's family. Regardless, Serj seems cool as hell.

 

I’ve been on such an enormous SOAD kick the last three weeks. Sucks that the drummer is such a fuckhead.

 

May be something, may be nothing, but I was watching the Live From Armenia show a few weeks ago and during BYOB, every time Serj says “Where the fuck are you?” he turns around and stares at dolmayan...

 

1. Wow this would have been a killer SOAD song

2. This is uhh...provacative? to say the least.

 

If someone said that was a SOAD parody song, I would believe them.

There’s also absolutely no reason reason to use the r-word.

 

Between that and the blatent anger at the islamic religion, I was a bit taken aback. I mean Armenians have every right to not look favorably about islam so. Just kinda shocking.

But yeah I get what he's going for with the use of the word, but...*Cringe*

 

YIKES

 

Big left turn after that last one lol

It's always kinda strange when Serj's lyrics aren't so out there and crazy.

 

I'm not liking these solo Serj tracks but Scars On Broadway has promise

 

Elasticity is cool though.

 

yeah but the riffs go

 

This rules, read every word of it

The Oral History of System of a Down’s ‘Toxicity’

 

The last bit is of course a bit depressing. Serj being stubborn about his artistic creativity, Daron wanting to do things his own way/the way they did before, and John being bitter about how it all went down. Shavo is the only one that always seems to have the right way of thinking about it lol

Kinda surprised that John seems to be saying he’s always been more of a right winger. I know the leftism of the band was mostly Serj’s lyrics, but assumed the rest of the band was probably similar in beliefs

 

Separating art from artist certainly is a bit strange when you are the artist

 

Wake up

 

This was a fun read and it made me have to go listen to the song again lol

And this quote is great: