It could be for anybody whose people have suffered that type of thing, such as Native Americans.” “It’s about being proud that people did survive the genocide, and it’s not just for Armenian people. “I’m Armenian, so I wanted to do something for Armenian people – especially since April 24th is the day we remember the genocide,” he says, noting the date the country recognizes as the start to the genocide propagated by Ottoman Turks in 1915. “All of our lives we’ve known wrong from right, our people survived.” “All of our lives we’ve put up a fight, all heroes have died,” he sings in his trademark, almost operatic way.
He’s now previewing the album, Dictator, due July 20th, with a giddy, bouncy new single called “Lives,” which is meant to commemorate the Armenian Genocide and celebrate its survivors. “I gotta be honest, it’s been hard,” he says. With the realization that System of a Down won’t be recording anytime soon, Malakian tells Rolling Stone he’ll release a 12-song record under the Scars on Broadway moniker this summer.
He recorded it entirely himself with the intention of putting it out under the name Scars on Broadway, a side band he launched during System’s mid-2000s hiatus, but he shelved it when the other band started up again in case they needed songs for their own new LP. For the past six years, System of a Down guitarist Daron Malakian has been sitting on an entire album with no plans of releasing it.
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