NEWS
2019/11/20
Once every two weeks, Daron Malakian visits Disneyland. Along with his girlfriend Gayane, he strolls the amusement park in Anaheim, California, boarding rides and marvelling at the vision of its founder, Walt Disney. Between the months of October and April, he will drive to the Staples Center in Downtown Los Angeles to watch the city’s ice hockey team the Kings, at which he has season tickets at centre ice. “That gets me out of the house two or three nights a week,” he says. The 44-year-old sees his family on Sundays, and most evenings will head out to dinner with his significant other. He stays up late, and after Gayane has gone to bed, at two or three in the morning he will retreat to a room in his house in which he will play and write music. “I’m kind of a hermit,” he says. “I...
