

In 2018, Malakian publicly accused Tankian of not wanting to record, with Tankian responding that creative and financial issues with Malakian led to the stalemate. But the flipside is we should be fucking honored that people still care and want the new record." It became this thing we're, like, 'Fuck this.' It's gonna make me say, 'Fuck the new record,' because there's so much. 'Where's the new record?' It's always there now. John does something 'Where's the new record?' I'm posting NORTH KINGSLEY. Because Daron will post SCARS, and they'll rip him up about the new record. It's become this crazy thing: 'The new SYSTEM record isn't happening.' It's way too crazy, bro. And it just kind of grew to a point where, because of social media and because of all this demand for the record, it's become taboo it's become this thing. He continued: "It's a mixture of a lot of stuff that's happened. And I'll listen to you if you listen to me,' instead of, like, 'I think it should be this way, 'I think it should be that way.' Okay, well, then that's not gonna work because if you both… I don't know." It would be nice to just back up a little and say, 'You know, let's just do it. If people weren't so adamant about their views.

We're still all here, we still can talk, we still can play, we're still alive."Įlaborating on the reason the members of SYSTEM OF A DOWN haven't been able to see eye-to-eye on how to proceed with a new record, Shavo said: "If we could just agree. It's not like someone said or did something that's 'end all.' It's not like, God forbid, anyone's passed away. But the reason why I'm optimistic is because nothing has been done that can't be undone. "Well, yeah, bro, I'm optimistic about a lot of things.

'Oh, Shavo is optimistic,'" he continued. "That's why I'm always optimistic, and whenever I say that, it becomes headlines. Nothing has gone down so terrible that we can never. Even if I don't see them or talk to them for months, when we're on the phone, we're best friends.

The bassist said (hear audio below): "I love SYSTEM. Odadjian, who recently unveiled his new band NORTH KINGSLEY, discussed SYSTEM's inability to make a new album during an appearance on Ernie Ball's "Striking A Chord" podcast. The Serj Tankian-fronted outfit has toured intermittently since ending its hiatus in 2011 but has yet to record any new music. Shavo Odadjian says that he is still "optimistic" that SYSTEM OF A DOWN will one day record a follow-up to its "Mezmerize" and "Hypnotize" LPs, which came out in 2005.
