January 22, 2008
SYSTEM OF A DOWN Guitarist's SCARS ON BROADWAY Confirmed For COACHELLA


SYSTEM OF A DOWN guitarist Daron Malakian's new band with SYSTEM drummer John Dolmayan, called SCARS ON BROADWAY, has been confirmed for this year's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, set to take place April 25-27 in Indio, California.


For more information, visit www.coachella.com.

Malakian has told Revolver magazine that SCARS ON BROADWAY is his first priority right now and he doesn't see a return to SYSTEM any time soon. Malakian explained, "SYSTEM is not my band right now. I'll go back and do that someday. I'd expect a second SCARS album before I'd expect another SYSTEM album." That could mean a long wait for SYSTEM fans, since SCARS ON BROADWAY has yet to finish recording its debut album or set a release date. The last SYSTEM CD, "Hypnotize", came out in late 2005.

SYSTEM drummer John Dolmayan, who also plays in SCARS ON BROADWAY, told The Pulse of Radio he understands fans being concerned over SYSTEM's future. "The SYSTEM issue is gonna come up forever," he said. "It's unavoidable because people really like the band and they want to see the band working, making albums and touring. The only thing I would ask of our fans is just be a little bit patient. We are in a phase of our lives where we need to do something different so that we can come back to SYSTEM renewed and refreshed. That's not gonna take 15 years. We don't know exactly how many years it'll take. When we're ready, we'll get back into it."

SCARS ON BROADWAY has yet to determine which record label will release their debut album.

SYSTEM vocalist Serj Tankian released his debut solo effort, "Elect the Dead", last October through Reprise Records.

SYSTEM OF A DOWN bassist Shavo Odadjian recently launched a music-based social networking site called urSession and is working on his own side project with WU-TANG CLAN member The RZA.


Source: BLABBERMOUTH.NET

Yeah man!! Scars on Broadway kicks ass!! "They Say" is just the perfect song! ... cant w8 for the release of their album on the 29th of July

They also revealed the cover of the album.. looks kinda strange^^
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/img/other/s...on_broadway.jpg

finally heard THEY SAY
i think its pretty good
not anything particularly special
but good

I've only heard about 6 songs from the album and only like 2(kind of) from what I've heard it's kind of poppy rock.Not what I was expecting from Daron and co.

i havent heard the rest of the album, but i found They Say to be very bland. the same monotonous couple of chords over and over again was nauseating. the only redeeming quality about the song was that distortion noise during the chorus. hopefully the rest of the album is less... boring. as a long-time listener of soad, ive come to expect a degree of eccentricity and originality from them.

what i heard sucks... maybe other trax are any good

Well Casey (Amen) was the original singer, once he departed it sounds like the band went in a diffrent direction. Regardless of how it sounds people are going to follow it because it's Jon and Darron from SOAD. But like Darron says do not hold your breathe for a SOAD reunion, their is a huge power struggle between Serj and Darron, both of them want to be the leader of the band. Darron is a real asshole if you ever watch any of his interviews he is very egotistical. I prefer SOAD up until Toxicity after that, that's when all the bullshit started and it rolled over into Hypnotize and Mezmerize, yes those albums sold well but that was a copout from SOAD we all know they are capable of making better material. Plus whent hey did Ozzfest that year they where fighting on stage during shows, taking seperate buses to gigs. Honestly I hope they do not get back together if they do it's for money.

SOAD are still like one of my favourite bands ever but I agree with the comments about Daron, talk about ego...im not a fan of his solo stuff, Serj's pisses all over it

No doubt Serj came out the winner, Serj stayed more true to the heavier side of things. All though I have heard some of the stuff Shavo did with Rza it is really not that bad but the way people are today they would know good music if it came up and face fucked them. If Scars stayed with Casey on vocals you would not be hearing that They Say shit

Innit man casey is a fuckin legend no doubt he'd have kept it proper punk metal, not this pop punk faggot shit

new newsletter from SOB!

No Switzerland in their tour :'(

and "They Say" is a really good song. It's some kind of aggressive but not just straight to your face aggressive. I love it...!

they are alright neve rbe as good as soad tho

yeah they tend to be dicks in interviews.
where are you guys listening to the full album? ive been searching for it on soulseek for days and found nothing.

I think noone here heard other songs of Scars on Broadways Selftitled album! They just heard songs from the "old project"!

just 1 month to go and we'll hear the official release of the Songs!!! :D

Shaggz- I have a concert from the KROQ Weenie Roast 2008- MP3.

1. I LIKE SUiCiDE
2. Stoner Hate
3. World Long Gone
4. Enemy
5. Whore Street
6. Chemicals
7. Universe
8. Cute Machaines
9. They Say

quality is pretty good 100 times better than anything off youtube.
if you want P.M. me, I'll hook you up.

Just received a newsletter:

here's the link to the yahoo music thingy...
http://new.music.yahoo.com/

thx but ill just wait for the studio versions

new song online.. called "Chemicals"

http://www.myspace.com/scarsonbroadway here you can listen to it!

hmm I don't like it that much.. "They Say" is much better then this.. especially the refrain of "Chemicals" kinda sucks! the rest isn't too bad!

chemicals is a lot better than they say, which i found quite bland.

i agree this track is bomb. i like it better than "they say". this mite b the first band i see in london, after i moved up there ;) yay.

i barely liked they say

i like this one even less

not sure why
but im not really caring for them

thers no energy in these songs, his voice stays the same, he needs to change it up
idk, thats just me

he does a bit in chemicals

ok the album leaked and is quite bland and disappointing. chemicals is still the best track, with only a couple somewhat standout tracks. i can safely conclude that daron is a douche and serj is the creative force behind soad.

Exactly!

this album was quite a letdown

i don't like their singer... i guess this is my biggest let down from '08

lamelamelamelame

guess we all know who was the creative force in SoaD

Very very boring album. The artwork sucked and the music sucked and I hate Daron in the first place. So why did I listen to this in the first place?

they broke up because of him, right?