It Seems Promising
Drummer of the band John Dolmayan talked about SOAD not releasing music for so long, telling X107.5 (via Blabbermouth): don't know why we aren't coming out with an album. It's very disheartening...
"It seems like we all get along, we all have a great time touring, we still are putting together really good music. I think that we can put out a fantastic album."
He also talked about the band's decrease in touring activity, saying:
"I know a lot of our American fans are saying, 'Why don't you guys tour the States more often?'"We talked about it about two years ago. We said, 'Look, we haven't made an album' - at that point it was a decade only that we hadn't made an album - only one short decade, 'cause we have so many left...[Laughs] And we talked about it and we said, 'Look, let's make our album first.'""We had every intention of going in the studio and working on an album. As far as the timeline, everybody had their own opinion of when that was gonna happen. For me, it was 10 years ago, and then there's varying degrees of that."If I had my way, we would have put out five albums in the last 12 years. And I think we're really doing a disservice to ourselves, because you only have a finite amount of time."If anything proves anything, Chris Cornell passing away unexpectedly proves that at any given moment [it could all be gone]. It does put things into perspective, and you realize how much time you're wasting and how precious that time is."
Dolmayan also said he feels "really good" about the new music the band's been working on, adding:
"To be honest with you, if I didn't feel that way, I wouldn't even wanna broach putting together an album, because we do very well touring on our catalog."And, quite frankly, there's a lot of bands I wish wouldn't be putting out albums, 'cause they haven't put out a good album in a long time."We've been in the studio for the past year and we've put together about 15 songs so far that I think match or beat anything we've done in the past... And I don't make those kind of claims without having something to back it up."We're better than we've ever been, we're tighter than we've ever been, we know what we're doing and the songs are there. It's a matter of getting-together and putting aside whatever differences, or whatever problems people have — which don't seen to surface when we're together, by the way. It's almost like there's two System of a Downs for me."
Asked whether there's one band member who's getting in the way of the new album, John replied:
"Nobody in particular. And the funny thing is we all get into the studio, everybody's getting along great, we have a blast on the road."In our band, the difficulty really isn't, 'Is one of us gonna fall off the wagon or get into a bad situation?'"It's really a matter of, 'Are we gonna come together and make something happen?' It's been about 12 years since we've put out an album..."
Its kind of depressing that a band like this doenst release a new album but maybe their time is over!
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