System Of A Down’s Daron Malakian announce first Scars On Broadway album since 2018 with ‘Addicted To The Violence’ and comeback single ‘Killing Spree’

System Of A Down‘s Daron Malakian has introduced the third Scars on Broadway album, titled ‘Hooked on the Violence’, and has launched the primary single ‘Killing Spree’.

Resulting from be launched on July 18, the brand new album will observe 2018’s ‘Dictator’ – with Malakian saying it’s “among the greatest stuff I’ve to supply”.

To accompany the announcement of ‘Hooked on the Violence’, Scars on Broadway has dropped new single ‘Killing Spree’, which explores the “taboo” nature of psychological issues.

“It’s a taboo subject individuals may be afraid to speak about,” Malakian mentioned in a press assertion. “Youngsters have rebelled endlessly. Psychological issues have all the time been there too. Within the final 15 years, we’ve seen a era that may stroll into college and kill different college students. I’m not glamorizing or advocating it. I’m simply saying, ‘The youngsters are on a fucking killing spree.’ It’s what I see in entrance of me.

“I’m not simply speaking about killings both. You’ll see a woman who’s getting overwhelmed up on the subway and other people round her aren’t even serving to; they’re fucking recording on their iPhones. We had automated weapons fifty years in the past, and no one was doing this. I blame the mindset. We now have a era that’s so indifferent and desensitized. They’re completely unemotional and unempathetic. There’s no respect for all times.”

He additionally shared a video for ‘Killing Spree’, watch it under.

‘Hooked on the Violence’ is primarily written, produced and composed by Malakian but in addition has contributions from longtime bandmates Orbel Babayan (guitar) and Roman Lomtadze (drums).

Again in February, Malakian opened up about the opportunity of a brand new album from System Of A Down, saying, “I’m undecided how a lot I would like that anymore”.

The legendary steel band’s final albums had been their two 2005 full-lengths ‘Mezmerize’ and ‘Hypnotize’. Although there was no closing phrase on if the band have a brand new album within the works, frontman Serj Tankian beforehand shared that a brand new System document can be a “recent begin in a model new method”.

In a brand new interview with Rick Rubin, which was performed on the saart of the yr, Malakian mentioned he’s really probably not a fan of the prospect of one other album.

Talking to Rubin, who produced the 2 albums alongside Malakian 20 years in the past, Malakian mentioned: “It might have been good to see the place the band would have developed if we stored placing music out. If we put out an album now, it’s simply so far-off from [‘Mezmerize’ and ‘Hypnotize’] it doesn’t proceed the story to me.”

He continued, including that beginning a “new story” with the band “might need been one thing I needed” up to now, however now, “I’m undecided how a lot I would like that anymore – I’m certain individuals received’t be too blissful to listen to that from me. I’m not on the identical place I used to be perhaps 10 years in the past.”

Elsewhere, System Of A Down lately accomplished their South America tour dates in April and Might, and are getting ready to tackle North America in August and September. The dates – all of which offered out – mark the primary time since 2017 that the band are performing back-to-back exhibits for an prolonged time frame, having solely performed one or two exhibits a yr in latest instances.