Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. Story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. I haven't finalized it, but that's what I'm thinking of calling it." For me, it's not 'Toxicity' but it is 'Toxicity'. He explained: "I think I'm gonna call it 'Elasticity' just because I wanted to do it with SYSTEM and it didn't happen. Tankian said he's considering calling the EP "Elasticity", a play on SYSTEM's massive 2001 album "Toxicity".
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But as we could not really see eye to eye on how to go forward with that, I decided to finish them off myself and release them as an EP." Tankian told SPIN that they were first meant for SYSTEM, saying: "Originally, I had these songs in mind for a SYSTEM record if we were to end up doing a SYSTEM record.
The band was scheduled to play a number of European festivals this summer, but all of those shows have been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic which is sweeping the globe.Įarlier in the month, Tankian revealed that he will put out a solo EP of what he described as "rock songs" later this year.
SYSTEM OF A DOWN played a couple of live shows in May 2019, including headlining slots at Columbus, Ohio's Sonic Temple festival and Chicago Open Air. "Everything became more public and open, and that was that. "I think it released a lot of tension and negativity," he said. Last year, Serj told Rolling Stone that the public airing of his dispute with Daron didn't open up any more conversations about SYSTEM's future. In a message on Facebook, Tankian wrote that Malakian wanted to control SYSTEM's creative process, take more of the publishing money and be the only band member to speak to the press. In 2018, guitarist Daron Malakian publicly accused Tankian of not wanting to record, with Tankian responding that creative and financial issues with Malakian led to the stalemate.
We're still all friends, we have great relationships, and we tour together, we have fun together, and that's that." I would say a couple of years ago, we made that effort - songs were written by myself, by the other guys, et cetera, but we just couldn't see eye-to-eye, and that's really it. And we can't do something unless we're all really, really into the same direction, into the same goal, into the same vision. And to me, and I know to the other guys in the band, SYSTEM's very special, and what we've done together is very special. We just haven't been able to see eye-to-eye creatively to go to the next level. The singer addressed the band's lack of new music during a May 24 Facebook Live chat with Tumo Center For Creative Technologies.Īsked why SYSTEM hasn't recorded anything new in a decade and a half, Serj said (see video below): "There's been many things said, but it's quite simple. Serj Tankian says that nothing has changed with regard to SYSTEM OF A DOWN's inability to record a follow-up to its 2005 albums "Mezmerize" and "Hypnotize".
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