
New sounds from Daron Malakian of System Of A Down fame!
As from its early days, Daron Malakian always addressed the Scars On Broadway project as just rock, and “a lot more rock driven, although there will be some metal influences in the SOAD style“.
On what direction the debut album will take, Malakian states: “It will probably be something electronic mixed in with traditional Armenian and thrash, death, black, and doom metal influences. When the music comes out, it will still be structured, just like System of a Down’s music is.”‘.
In a recent interview, Malakian stated that the music will be influenced by classic rock acts such as David Bowie, Brian Eno, Neil Young, and Roxy Music. He also stated that he shifted his songwriting from SOAD’s frazzled metal to more song-based work, inspired by Neil Young and David Bowie.
“I don’t feel we’re the mosh-pit band,” says Malakian. “That’s just where I’m comfortable as a writer right now,” he said, hinting at the band’s rock over metal music approach.
Starting from May 28th, 2008, “They Say” is available for purchase at iTunes Music store. On July 20th, 2008, “They Say” was featured as iTunes’ Free Single of the Week. On June 20th Scars on Broadway released a teaser for their single “They Say” on a myspace bulletin. In the teaser, the video is said to premiere soon. The video for their first single ‘They Say’ premiered on Yahoo’s music page on June 27th. The song Chemicals was made available to listen to on the band’s Myspace page on July 8.