System of a Down’s final album Hypnotize got here out in 2005, and since then, the one different music they’ve launched was two singles in 2020, “Defend the Land” and “Genocidal Humanoidz.” In a brand new interview, drummer John Dolmayan
Throughout a chat with Sona Oganesyan, Dolmayan assured that he was completely happy to have been in a position to put out the 2 songs with the band, however that the expertise made him want that they might proceed to do extra.
“Trigger, clearly, we nonetheless have one thing to present to the world. And if you put one thing out that truly makes an affect, you are, like, ‘Why aren’t we doing this on a regular basis?’ After which I’m going down the rabbit gap of frustration and anger,” the drummer mentioned.
“I am a delicate particular person, so I am unable to simply maintain these things in — it has to come back out in some way. And it takes me a very long time to take care of it and to deal with it, as a result of I additionally am lifelike in that life is finite; you solely have a sure period of time. And right here we’re,” he continued.
“We have now this present that got here from God or wherever, and we’re squandering it. It is an insult to all people else that tries to make it in no matter endeavor they’re attempting to make. And right here we’re — we have made it, we’ve the expertise, we’ve the flexibility, we’ve an adoring fanbase, we have bought, I do not know, no matter it’s — 30 million albums or extra — and so they’re hungry for it, and we simply do not do it. That is just like the worst — being able to do one thing and never doing it’s, I feel, the worst factor on this planet so far as within the perspective of being an artist. You are simply hurting your self.”
Dolmayan believes that the band could be able to creating extra music collectively in the event that they had been prepared to “put all the pieces to the aspect,” which he claimed that he’s. Nevertheless, he would not assume that is one thing that his bandmates might be prepared to do.
Watch the complete interview under.
Whereas the members of System have not formally written off new music sooner or later, Serj Tankian confirmed that they haven’t any plans to launch something new anytime quickly throughout a dialogue with Loudwire Weekends host Todd Fooks.
“Not right now, and after we do, you may be the primary to know,” the singer teased.
