Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Dean Delray on the “Let There Be Talk” podcast, John Dolmayan was asked about the possibility of new System Of A Down music once again. The drummer responded by saying that he doesn’t even know if he wants to record new material anymore due to all the drama.

Dolmayan said the following about working on new music:

“I find it very unlikely. I’m not even sure I wanna do it anymore. It’s just so much drama and bullshit. In a lot of ways, I’m just over it. ‘Cause I fought really hard to get us to make an album over the course of the last 15 years. More than anybody else, I was calling people, ‘Let’s get together. Put the egos aside. Let’s have meetings. Whatever it takes. Let’s get in the studio. Let’s just get in the studio and see what happens.’ I just couldn’t get it done. I failed.”

He also added:

“Relationships break up all the time. And that’s with one person. Try having it with four.”

He continued after being asked if Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian are to blame for the lack of a new album:

“It’s not just Daron and Serj. It takes four people to make this band, and it takes four people to unmake it. I think that we’re all to blame. I could just blame Daron and Serj, because, quite frankly, they’re the primary songwriters, so it’s easy to blame them. But it’s not just their fault. A lot of it is their fault, but it’s not just their fault.”

Dolmayan also had the following to say about touring:

“Everybody pretty much does their own thing, but that’s been the way it’s been since day one, so it’s not like that changed. For me, it’s very odd, where we can put our differences aside to go on tour — we’re having a great time onstage, we have a blast on tour — and then I say, ‘Okay, well, you can put it aside for that, but you can’t put it aside for [this].’

“Listen, I’m as confused as other people are. I’m more frustrated than everybody else. ‘Cause at the end of the day, this is it — this is what my life’s work is. And as much as I enjoyed making the covers album, and I’m glad people are digging it — it’s getting a pretty good response — and it was a lot of fun to make, but I don’t wanna have time to make a covers album. I wanna be so immersed in SYSTEM OF A DOWN and the creative process of SYSTEM OF A DOWN that there isn’t even time for me to do that.”

[via Blabbermouth]