System Of A Down got here up within the late ’90s and early 2000s when metallic wasn’t precisely the preferred kind of music. The style would eventual regain its footing as nü-metal took off large time within the 2000s, and would proceed to chug alongside simply tremendous as much as the current day.
In an interview with Metallic Hammer, System Of A Down guitarist Daron Malakian cited excursions like Ozzfest and bands like Korn and Deftones for actually bringing the style out of the dumps and again into the highlight.
“I will be trustworthy, we got here up at a time the place metallic wasn’t doing so properly. Once we first toured with Slayer, they weren’t enjoying arenas – they had been enjoying theatres within the US. We might gone from metallic being this enormous factor within the 80s to the Seattle factor coming in and kinda killed off quite a lot of metallic, just like the pace metallic bands of that point,” mentioned Malakian.
“That features quite a lot of the bands I actually liked. Even within the late 90s, it felt prefer it was extra different rock that was common, so this group of bands that you just’d probably name nü-metal, or different metallic and occasions like Ozzfest actually introduced metallic again to the mainstream.
“All these bands like us, Korn and whoever had been getting performed on mainstream radio and actually helped put metallic again in a superb place. However then you definately had these bands that got here alongside that each one sounded related and I believe that is when it began to lose respect. It grew to become cookie cutter and each label needed their very own model of no matter band was large at the moment. Good luck discovering 4 Armenian guys! The bands that got here up in that scene to start out with like us, Korn and Deftones had been simply attempting to do one thing authentic and take metallic to a complete different stage, mesh in numerous issues.”
Elsewhere in the identical interview, Malakian notes that he has the third Daron Malakian And Scars On Broadway (beforehand often known as simply Scars On Broadway) file all completed up, however hasn’t had the time to get it out into the world. Daron Malakian And Scars On Broadway performed their first two exhibits in 5 years earlier this month.
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