That's important to me."ĭolmayan added: "I don't know what's gonna happen. We'd be able to go to places that we haven't gone in a long time and play in front of fans that have never seen us play. Ultimately, the best-case scenario for me is Serj comes around and we can do, like, 15, 20 shows a year.
Now I don't know if that means we're just gonna break up and forget about it and call it a career or if we're gonna move forward with somebody else or if Serj is gonna come around. "The rest of us wanna work a lot more than he does. "I don't think this is sustainable," John admitted.
Look, if my wife told me that we were gonna have sex once a year, I'd be divorced. "And he just doesn't wanna tour as much as the rest of us do. "I think we would like to be working a lot more, but Serj also has a bad back now he's messed up his back somehow," he said. That's it."Īccording to John, several of the SYSTEM members would prefer to be a lot more active on the live circuit. It's just getting to that point that is disheartening. Pressed about what it is like for him and his bandmates to still perform live together, Dolmayan said: "When we're actually on stage, it's great. But as it is, I think we wasted 15, maybe 20 years of our lives waiting." Maybe it would have been better if we moved on and got another singer for an album or two and continued to make music and brought Serj back later if he wanted to come back. But that's what happens when you're loyal and you really wanna make it work you'll put up with things that may be detrimental to the health of the band or the health of the situation. So it's all those things that make us SYSTEM."Īsked to elaborate on his comment that SYSTEM OF A DOWN "should have parted ways around 2006", John said: "I think we should have moved on, and if Serj didn't wanna be in the band at that time, we should have just moved on and done it with somebody else. 'Cause at the end of the day, he doesn't have me playing drums he doesn't have Shavo playing bass and bringing in certain riffs and adding to Daron's music, and he doesn't have Serj bringing his melody and lyrics into the play. That doesn't mean SCARS is bad it just means it's not SYSTEM. What he does with SCARS will never be on the same level or league as SYSTEM. John continued: "No matter what, Daron is one of the best songwriters I've ever seen in my life. And when you compare that to what we do together as SYSTEM, you understand why the team matters and having certain talents come together and merge matter and that magic thing captured doing that matters." In fact, I think a lot of 'em aren't very good at all. And you'll know this by listening to anybody's side projects they're never quite that good compared to SYSTEM. And every member of this band is very important to the overall sound of the band. But at the end of the day, if you have a majority of the band thinking one way and one person thinking the other, it's very difficult to come together and make music thinking that person is important. And part of that is Serj's fault, and part of that is my fault, and Shavo's and Daron's as well. So we couldn't really come together and agree. We tried to get together multiple times to make an album, but there were certain rules set in place that made it difficult to do so and maintain the integrity of what SYSTEM OF A DOWN stood for. And quite frankly, we probably should have parted ways around 2006. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): " Serj hasn't really wanted to be in the band for a long time. Along with other donations from fans on their social pages, they have raised over $600,000.ĭolmayan addressed SYSTEM OF A DOWN's inability to produce more new music during an appearance on the "Battleline Podcast". Released in November 2020, the tracks were motivated by the conflict between Artsakh and Azerbaijan, with all proceeds supporting humanitarian efforts in SYSTEM OF A DOWN's ancestral homeland of Armenia. SYSTEM OF A DOWN has toured intermittently since ending its hiatus in 2011, but has only managed to record two songs in the last 18 years, "Protect The Land" and "Genocidal Humanoidz". SYSTEM OF A DOWN drummer John Dolmayan has once again opened up about the band's stalled attempts to record a follow-up to its "Mezmerize" and "Hypnotize" LPs, which came out in 2005.
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