The musician had and still has many projects in the most diverse fields due to his serious artistic restlessness, which is why he felt the break so much
THE system of a Down went on hiatus in 2006, but returned to activity in 2010, quite sporadically. Short tours were done while the members moved on to other projects and only one double single has since been released. According to him, this situation of long periods of inactivity left one of the band’s musicians upset.
Al Loud nights (go Ultimate guitar), the bassist Shavo Odadjian he commented on what he felt when the group basically stopped composing, something that didn’t reverse even after the break. Creatively restless, the musician also explained the current situation SOAD.
He says:
Let’s start the System when I was 20, 21 years old. We created a lot, we played a lot… and then, years passed and it was 2005, 2006 when we stopped. It was disheartening for me personally. I won’t talk about what others felt and I don’t want to talk about others in the band… personally I was really upset. This is a big part of my life. To this day, I still keep it alive. That’s why we have shows coming up, we have things we want to do, but the whole writing thing… ‘daunting’ is the right word to describe it.”
The statement was made shortly before the release of his new project’s debut album, Seven hours later Violetta (SHAV). The bassist doesn’t seem to accept the fact that the system of a Down it could produce much more. shavo stated:
I like composing music. Sometimes I think to myself how we got really big and then stopped writing music. And I’m like, “that’s no good, because I want to write music, bro.” I want to compose, I want to play, I want to do more shows. I’m that guy in the band, you know? I’m always the one who wants to do more.”
Despite the clear discontent, Odadjian ensures everyone gets in system of a Down they are on good terms and that the current functioning of the band is the result of an agreement between the musicians. The group’s last work to date was the double single “Protect the Earth” / “Genocidal Humanoids”since 2020, launched to benefit the armed conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Shavo Odadjian on active duty
Shavo Odadjian He is a very active artist in various roles. Musically, as soon as the system of a Down went on hiatus in 2006, founded the AcHoZeNhip-hop project with members of Wu-Tang Clan. Additionally, he commands the trap group North Kingsleyworks as a DJ in the Los Angeles region and played in the backing band of George Clinton (former-Parliament/Funkadelic).
The partnership with RZAfrom Wu-Tang Clanproduced the shavo credits as creator of the film’s soundtrack Mission Babylon (2008), alongside the renowned Hans Zimmer. The artist has appeared in films such as Zoolander (2001) and in the documentary Screamers (2006), as well as in the video of “Big Guns”from AC/DCstill a child in 1993, at his side Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Odadjian he has also produced and directed music videos for system of a Down AND Bad brainsas well as the TV commercial for the game Mortal KombatX (2015), which has the song as its soundtrack “Cut Suey!”from SOAD. Beyond that, he has worked with the visual arts, including an exhibition in the 2006 edition of Ozzfest.
In 2024 it launched the Seven hours later Violetta (SHAV), his first heavy-sounding project on the outside system of a Down. Furthermore shavo on bass, the band has Taylor Barber (Left to suffervoice), Alessandro Aranda (Scary pool partyguitar and backing vocals), Morgoth AND Josh Johnson (Winds of plagueguitar and drums, respectively).
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Source: Terra
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