System Of A Down guitarist/vocalist Daron Malakian has announced a July 18th release date for his new Scars On Broadway (aka Daron Malakian And Scars On Broadway) album, “Addicted To The Violence“. That record will be arriving through Scarred For Life Records and represents the first new full-length from the band since 2018’s “Dictator“.
The song “Killing Spree” guides fans into this third studio album from the band overall, which thus far has frequently served as an outlet to repurpose numerous song ideas Malakian had originally written for System Of A Down‘s failed attempts to make a new record. Malakian and Lorenzo Diego Carrera co-directed the below music video for the track.
Speaking of this first single, Malakian offered:
“It’s a taboo topic people might be afraid to talk about. Kids have rebelled forever. Mental disorders have always been there too. In the last 15 years, we’ve seen a generation that will walk into school and kill other students. I’m not glamorizing or advocating it. I’m just saying, ‘The kids are on a fucking killing spree.’ It’s what I see in front of me. I’m not just talking about killings either.
You’ll see a lady who’s getting beaten up on the subway and people around her aren’t even helping; they’re fucking recording on their iPhones. We had automatic weapons fifty years ago, and nobody was doing this. I blame the mindset. We now have a generation that is so detached and desensitized. They’re totally unemotional and unempathetic. There’s no respect for life.”
Speaking on his creative process for this project, he offered:
“As far as the process goes, I’m always writing songs, because it’s the only way I know how to live. It’s my purpose. When I write, I try to stay honest. I don’t put myself in a box, which is why you have both heavy and mid-tempo material. It takes you through different feelings, and that’s what I’ve always done. If I was a painter, I wouldn’t tell myself, ‘I can’t use these colors.’ So, all the colors are available to me. All the emotions are also available, because we go through each one of them as people. I’m expressing everything I can.”
His writing style has also become more ambiguous, as he tells Rolling Stone:
“At this point in my life, I don’t write any songs for System or for Scars. I just write songs. I think if System was making an album, some of those songs would probably end up on a System album, but System does not make albums these days, so they go to Scars.”
Malakian also stated that he intends to play shows on this record, but has no touring scheduling at the moment.
“Addicted To The Violence” track listing:
01 – “Killing Spree”
02 – “Satan Hussein”
03 – “Done Me Wrong”
04 – “The Shame Game”
05 – “Destroy The Power”
06 – “Your Lives Burn”
07 – “Imposter ”
08 – “You Destroy You”
09 – “Watch That Girl”
10 – “Addicted To The Violence”
Pre-orders are available via lnk.to/ScarsOnBroadway.
