System Of A Down’s John Dolmayan: “I Think It’s Very Unlikely That We’ll Make New Music”

For months – and even years – now, John Dolmayan has been publicly calling on his System Of A Down bandmates to “put the bullshit aside” and work on new music together, even telling Kerrang! earlier this year, “We’d have been making an album now if it was up to me.” Now, though, the drummer seems to have accepted that a follow-up to 2005’s Mezmerize and Hypnotize probably isn’t going to happen. In a new interview for this weekend’s virtual Download TV, John explains how “simple” it would be for the alt-metal titans to make a new record, admitting, “We have the music. We just can’t get out of our own way on that one.” He adds that even if the band – completed by Serj Tankian, Daron Malakian and Shavo Odadjian – cou...

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