Malakian is also already writing songs for the next album.

Bandmembers not sure about next single but already have video idea for 'Lost in Hollywood.

HOLLYWOOD — Finally System of a Down have revealed the real motivation for breaking up their double album, Mezmerize/Hypnotize, into individual releases, the latter of which hit stores Tuesday.

"It's like watching 'Kill Bill: [Volume] 1' and '2,' " guitarist, singer and mastermind behind the album, Daron Malakian, said during a recent interview at the Roosevelt Hotel. "That was like the big inspiration for us to separate it into two."

Well, if you're going to steal an idea from someone, who better than Quentin Tarantino? And just as sitting through the entire "Kill Bill" is a lot to ask even of fans, System felt their songs would initially be better served in smaller doses.

So now that fans have had six months to live with Mezmerize, here comes Hypnotize, the even more experimental half of the set .Like Mezmerize, and all of System's releases, Hypnotize fuses metal with world music and a touch of pop, but this time there's more humor, more sentiment and even the band's first true ballad.

"I write a lot of songs and some of 'em I never thought worked for System so I didn't take 'em to System, and that's one that I wasn't going to take into the band," Malakian said of the somber "Lonely Day." "I kind of [regretted] it."

"Yeah, we had to kind of get it out of him," bassist Shavo Odadjian continued. "He brought it and we loved it so much that he was like, 'I really don't want it on the record,' but ... it's something that needs to be heard."

Similar in sentiment but on an entirely different subject is "Holy Mountains," an ode to mountains that are geographically considered Turkish, but Armenians believe still belong to them.

"That's one of our national landmarks, like the Armenian soccer team is called Ararat," said Odadjian, who, like the other members of System, is of Armenian descent. "Imagine if the Grand Canyon was taken over by Mexico ... wait, let me take that back, bad analogy."

"Well we can see how America relates to this," Malakian added, laughing.

On the opposite end of the spectrum is "Vicinity of Obscenity," which features a chorus of "Banana, banana, banana, terra cotta pie" and "Do we all learn defeat/ From the whores with bad feet?"

"We're not four guys that sit around the table and talk about politics," Malakian explained. "Serj [Tankian, singer] and I both have a side to us that's serious and a side to us that's not serious and I think if we only wrote the serious parts then it wouldn't do justice to every side."

"That makes the politics and whatever the serious stuff [is] stand out more," Odadjian added. "It's just the yin and the yang."

Musically, Hypnotize also introduces some new elements, including rockabilly, blues and British rock.

"The influences are all across the board," Malakian said. "In 'Kill Rock 'n' Roll' the choruses came about at the moment I was listening to a lot of the Supremes, and if you listen to that part you can hear a melody and a harmony there that's not too far away from what the Supremes would probably be doing, but there's heavy guitars in the back."

System have yet to pick the follow-up single to "Hypnotize" but said it could come from either half of the double album.

"I think if you asked each person what they thought the next single should be they'd probably give you a different answer," Malakian said. "I'm pretty sure 'Lonely Day' [will eventually be a single] just 'cause so many people ask us about it and it is really straightforward, it's almost like made to be a single."

"I think we all want maybe 'Lost in Hollywood' to one day be a single," Odadjian added. "And we already have a video idea."

The band, as always, is taking the holidays off but plans to return to the road in early 2006. Malakian is also already writing songs for the next album.

"I don't try to top [the last album], I just try to get out of that mode," he said. "If I'm topping it, then I'm still focused on it.

"[Writing songs] all comes down to being a bunch of snapshots of life," he continued. "And if you're taking snapshots of life, chances are you're not only gonna see sad things, you're gonna see happy things, you're gonna see sexual things, you're gonna see crazy things, normal things, people walking their dogs, people doing people things. People tend to gravitate sometimes to the darker side of [life], but there's a lot of sometimes not-so-dark sides to it."

— Corey Moss
Mtv.com

Quell'uomo mi fa paura.

Sto per mettermi a piangere di felicità.
Io li amo, questi ragazzi.

un riassuntino in italiano?

Lo amo.

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Scritto da: ivanspider82 30/11/2005 12.08
un riassuntino in italiano?

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non sarebbe una brutta idea in effetti

niente,solo che

Hanno finalmente ammesso la loro bisessualita'!!!C'E' speranza anche per noi maschietti!

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Scritto da: CapoPkk 30/11/2005 18.59
niente,solo che

Hanno finalmente ammesso la loro bisessualita'!!!C'E' speranza anche per noi maschietti!

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STAI SCHERZANDO VERO?!?!?!?!.............VABBè!!!

sta scherzando, però cmq anche se fosse

praticamente dice che oltre che Daron stà facendo delle song per il nuovo album(io li aMO) e Lonely Day faranno un singoloanche per Lost In Hollywood,e hanno anche un'idea di video

Bene molto bene nuove canzoni e video si prospettano x il futuro

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Scritto da: CapoPkk 30/11/2005 18.59
niente,solo che

Hanno finalmente ammesso la loro bisessualita'!!!C'E' speranza anche per noi maschietti!

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Dove?Io d'inglese ne so,e credo di aver capito tutta l'intervista alla perfezione,ma non ho notato nessuna allusione a bisessualità di sorta...Mi illudo.........

io ve lo sempre detto ke non sapete di cosa è capace quel tipo..

ma se sarà elettronico tipo"old school holywood..." inzomma....:(
comunque BENE BENE!!!! :smile32: :smile32: :smile32: :smile32: :smile32: :smile32: :smile32: :smile32:

non vedo l'ora!!!

Daron è un Mito

incredibile...a me daron mette soggezione ma lo adoro.mitici!!!! :smile32: :smile32: :smile32: :smile32: :smile29:

buona

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Scritto da: Peru.19 12/02/2006 17.34
ma se sarà elettronico tipo"old school holywood..." inzomma....:(
comunque BENE BENE!!!! :smile32: :smile32: :smile32: :smile32: :smile32: :smile32: :smile32: :smile32:

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secondo me sarà un ritorno allo stile più "tradizionale" dei primi cd (Toxicity) dopo i più sperimentali Mesmerize-Hypnotize...e sono sicuro che sarà un grande cd :smile32: :smile32: :smile32: :smile32: :smile32: :smile32: :smile32:

E' un grande!

ma si sanno date riguardanti l'uscita dell'album?

Dò un dritta...un sacco di band e cantanti dicono semre di avere song pronte,di lavorare sul prossimo album e cose del genere...e tutto questo lo dicono dopo aver appena pubblicato l'ultimo!E poi che cosa pubblicano se ancora manco si sà quando faranno i tour???se devono fare un altro singolo???

voglio un nuovo album...nn sarebbe bello avere un album al mese?_?

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Scritto da: sifilide4ever 07/04/2006 15.10
voglio un nuovo album...nn sarebbe bello avere un album al mese?_?

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No

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Scritto da: metal17601 07/04/2006 15.12

No

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Period.

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Scritto da: sifilide4ever 07/04/2006 15.10
voglio un nuovo album...nn sarebbe bello avere un album al mese?_?

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no perchè ci vogliono minimo un anno e mezzo a fare un buon album, a meno che non sei Gesù Cristo

ssperiamo ke esca presto il nuovo album dei system :smile32:

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Scritto da: razieldefiance 14/04/2006 10.55
ssperiamo ke esca presto il nuovo album dei system :smile32:

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io dico che esce a metà 2007

Per me esce nel 2008, sto album.

per me nel 2008 l'album lo iniziano soltanto!!! :smile8: