The last of any kind of news we'd heard about System of a Down doing anything at all was April 2015, where Serj Tankian said there were no timelines for a new record., despite rumors circulating prior that the band might start recording.
Now, for the first time in what seems like forever, Tankian tells Rolling Stone that new material is actually floating around and the band is talking to each other again. (emphasis is ours)
“I’ve written a bunch of rock songs. We’ll see where they end up. I leave that vague on purpose because I don’t know what’s going to happen with them. Whether they become System or solo or whatever, we’ll see. Time will tell. And I’m waiting for a couple of friends of mine who have films that just got financing, so I’m waiting for them to shoot their film so I can start working on the soundtracks.
“…we’re communicating and trying to see if we can bring our material together. There’s definitely a lot of communication going on, a lot of back and forth. I can’t make a statement in terms of whether we’re going to have a record or not, because we haven’t gone into the studio and done it. But there’s definitely communication going on, songs being played to each other and all that stuff, so it’s good. We’ll see what happens.”
“…I think it would be great to create something brand new in a new direction. It would be very exciting, but everyone’s got to be on board, on the same page, and it’s got to be done in a way so that everyone is happy. If we can do that, we’ll do it."
Well, holy shit. Obviously we've gotten our hopes up in the past, but this time it sounds like there's real, actual potential for System of a Down to come up with a new record. isn't it crazy that the last record we've gotten from the group was Hypnotize in 2005? It really, really doesn't feel like 11 years have passed… at all.
[via The PRP]
