It has been 10 years since System of a Down dropped Mezmerize and Hypnotize. The group went on hiatus in 2006, but it got back together five years later, much to the delight of fans. Now, in an interview with Rolling Stone, frontman Serj Tankian is giving System followers some hope of a new album.
The group is gearing up for their international Wake Up the Souls tour. Once that wraps in April, the boys might be hitting the studio.
"There has been talk, and we are going to play this tour, come back and we're going to see where we are. If we have songs that work for System, if I have them and [guitarist] Daron [Malakian] has them. The openness is there to work together, but we haven't made any particular plans that we can announce," Tankian said.
As per usual, the band is hitting the road to spread awareness of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide that occurred in 1915. Every member of the group comes from survivors of the genocide, and they will play Armenia for the first time to close out April. It turns out Tankian's solo efforts also involve the massacre.
"Right now, I'm actually focusing on a film score. It's actually a really cool score, and it's for a film based on, again, the genocide," he said. "That's all I'm dealing with right now. It's called 1915. It's a very interesting drama that's actually shot in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Theater, a very old and distinguished theater. It's a really, really interesting, psychological thriller, modern story. It deals with denial and the psychological impacts of a genocide rather than the physical aspects of it."
Tankian went on to promise that fans will know about a new System album well before the press.
