System Of A Down guitarist Daron Malakian has rebooted the engine on his sideproject, Scars On Broadway, but there’s a few big changes this time around.
The axeman has replaced every member of the old lineup and given the band-name a makeover, redubbing the project, ‘Daron Malakian And Scars On Broadway’.
Although Malakian has yet to identify the new recruits in the band’s lineup, he has revealed that former members Dominic Cifarelli, John Dolmayan, Franky Perez and Danny Shamoun are all out.
“Nobody quit,” he confirmed in a statement (via Ultimate Guitar). “When I first started Scars, I always said that it would be different lineups from album to album. Depends on the type of direction I want to take. Different musicians work for different styles. That is partly why I added my name in front of the band’s.”
What’s more, the new incarnation of the band already have new music on the way, and will be releasing a fresh single next Monday, April 23rd, with an accompanying music video directed by Hayk Kharikyan and Mikael Sharafyan.
The track will mark the first cut of the long-awaited second Scars on Broadway album, the follow-up to the band’s 2008 self-titled debut.
Now all we need is SOAD to announce new music too and we’ll be set!
14 Huge Australian Tours We’re Still Waiting For
Beyoncé
Queen B’s world tour plan’s for her Lemonade may have been derailed by the whole getting-pregnant-with-twins-thing, but we’re confident that we’ll eventually see her return down under for the first time since 2013. We’ll just have to wait.
Frank Ocean
Mr. Ocean broke all our hearts when he exited his 2013 debut Aussie tour, including his headline set at Splendour, and that was after he pulled out of a planned 2012 Aussie tour. He’s yet to make his way back to us, but after
just breaking a three-year hiatus from playing live, we’re holding out hope that he’ll grace us with his presence again soon.
Gorillaz
It’s been seven years since virtual punks Gorillaz brought their live show to Australia, and we’re getting impatient. But with Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett officially reactivating the band and hitting us with brand new album Humanz this year, a comeback surely can’t be far off.
Kanye West
Yeezy’s had a lot on his plate since releasing 2016’s The Life Of Pablo, including US presidential bids, highly publicised Taylor Swift beefs, his wife Kim Kardashian getting mugged in Paris and of course his hospitalisation for mental illness causing the postponement of his entire Saint Pablo tour, so we can hardly blame him for putting an Aussie visit low on the old priorities list. Still, with three years since his last down under tour, it’s understandable that fans are getting a little impatient.
System Of A Down
SOAD last tore up Aussie stages as part of Soundwave Festival in 2012, and haven’t been back since. The Southern Cali rockers played a buttload of festivals across 2013, reactivated at the end of 2014, headed out on their Wake Up The Souls Euro tour in 2015, and are followed it up with dates in South America, the US and Canada. Souls in Australia need waking up too, guys. What are we, Chop Suey?
Rihanna
Considering that in the past year Ri-Ri has
covered Tame Impala and
become BFFs with ex-PM Julia Gillard, it’s basically ludicrous that she hasn’t toured down under since releasing her 2016 album
Anti. In fact, the ‘Work’ singer hasn’t visited her Aussie fans since 2013. Better get Julia on the blower to sort this out.
Solange
Solange has been snobbing Aussie fans for the past three years, after last heading to our shores for the 2013/2014 Falls Festival. She’s been touring the crap out of her much-frothed 2016 LP A Seat at the Table, but hasn’t penciled Australia in just yet. Come on, Solange, we want a seat at the table too.
Lana Del Rey (UPDATE: Now Announced!)
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