Dudes who aren’t necessarily fast with shredding and sweeping, but more melody-led. “You know, a lot of my guitar heroes aren’t really the shredder guys. What are the main secrets to the Daron Malakian school of shred – as seen on live renditions of tracks like Psycho, Streamline, Highway Song, Lonely Day, Mr. (Image credit: Francesco Castaldo/Archivio Francesco Castaldo/Mondadori via Getty Images) This time I mixed it with an early '80s Gibson Korina Flying V, so it was an SG and Flying V mixed and doubled…” “And yeah, pretty much all my guitars since Mezmerize and Hypnotize have been recorded with a 1962 LP SG Standard I have. I mixed that with a Marshall, which is the bulk of the tone for these two songs. “There were no pedals, but I went through a 100-Watt Friedman amplifier that’s very close to a Marshall JMP. What are we hearing on the new recordings? You’ve mainly used Marshall amps and Gibson and Ibanez guitars over the years. It might be arranged in a traditional way, but I do have a traditional approach to some degree!” “With my writing I usually like to keep it some sort of traditional song structure or format. Sometimes when you get too progressive you lose the song and you lose the hook. I try a lot of progressive things, sure, but always keep it as a song.
“I know! But I do try to keep our music in some sort of song format. The other new song – Genocidal Humanoidz – is brilliantly unpredictable, even including some black-metal riffing about 90 seconds in… Then I got John and Shavo to get in the studio to track their parts – like I said, I already had the song tracked but we re-tracked everything except for my vocals which remained the same as on the Scars version.” “He would send things back, I send something back, and so on. There was a bit of back and forth over text, I would say, ‘Well, maybe try to sing it like this…’ which was kinda different, because I usually work face to face in the same studio with people when sharing ideas. “I sent Serj the song with all the original tracks done, he was still in New Zealand at the time and he put down some of his vocals.
I had the song ready and everyone told me to send it over, which I did. So I had the song ready and everyone told me to send it over, which I did.
I’d actually written the song a year and a half ago, before there was any huge conflict… Well, there’s always been some kind of conflict over the last 20 or 30 years, but not like this.
“Yeah, I feel like the lyrics were tailor-made for the situation. Which, despite having been written prior, sounds like it was written specifically for the situation in your ancestral home… So I did that and told them I had this song called Protect The Land…” I had a song I had already recorded and was ready to release with my own album with my other band Scars On Broadway, but the song fit so perfectly for the situation that I had to bring up to the band. “Yeah, he sent a message to the band in a group chat saying we should do something to raise awareness. Now, I came up with this riff sitting there listening to Soldier Side Intro. Alot Of The Stuff Of The Mez/Hyp Package is In Db. Song: Soldier Side - Outro Album: Hypnotize Artist: System Of a Down Bassist: Shavo Odajian Tuning: Db, Ab, Db, Gb Comments: There's already a tab for it, But that one sounds like ass because Shavo or The Rest of SOAD Hardly Ever (Or Never That I'm aware of) Play in E,A,D,G.
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