Music Times
Jan 9 2015

System of a Down May Be Working on a New Album: Serj Tankian Talks
Solo Work and Upcoming Tour

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.