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Posted: Apr 27, 2008 - 10:04 PM
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Here is a new review from Rolling Stone of Scars on Broadway at Coachella:
At the exact same time, just a day after singer Serj Tankian performed a solo Coachella set, his System of a Down bandmates Daron Malakian (singer-guitarist) and John Dolmayan (drums) debuted their new band, Scars on Broadway. Few outside the obsessive SOAD fan community have heard much about the new act, which has just finished recording its first album, but the brooding, melodic hard-rock quintet was determined to make a forceful entrance. “It’s hot as a motherfucker here at Coachella,” declared Malakian, grinning in a black hat and mirror aviator shades. “But we want you to dance with us.” More song-based than System’s often chaotic prog-metal, Scars still shook with psychotic guitar flourishes between the melodies. And many songs introduced at Coachella suggested a powerful obsession with recreational chemicals and the environment. “We are the enemy of the Earth,” Malakian warned as a mosh pit erupted in front of him. In another song, he lamented in tones sad and haunted, “You never saw a sky like this/you never want to die like this . . . Is this the end of rebirth?”
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Posted: Apr 27, 2008 - 10:10 PM
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Joined: Apr 10, 2008
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Location: Milton Keynes, England
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hmmm it sounds favourable!! the fact that they say its more song-based backs up what Daron has already said he's aiming for...so far so good!
ps. theres some videos from Serj's set on Youtube by the way...not very long and lacking in quality...nothing we havnt see before but just incase anyone was wondering! |
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Posted: Apr 27, 2008 - 11:30 PM
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Joined: Jan 26, 2008
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JalapenoMan wrote:
“We are the enemy of the Earth”
“You never saw a sky like this/you never want to die like this . . . Is this the end of rebirth?”
OMG.
these lyrics sound AWESOME. |
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Posted: Apr 27, 2008 - 11:54 PM
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another review/blog
Coachella Day 2: Sorry kids, no System of a Down reunion
April 26th, 2008 · Post a Comment · posted by Kelli
7:30 p.m. — It was all the buzz online and even in the Register offices when we realized that former System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian and former System guitarist and drummer, Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan and their new band, Scars on Broadway would both be performing at Coachella.Could this mean a System of a Down reunion? People seemed to hope so. There was no reunion last night during Tankian’s solo performance, so a small crowd of hopefuls packed in front of stage in the Mohave tent in hopes of seeing a glimpse of a reunited System of a Down.
Well, it didn’t happen. Malakian and Dolmayan performed with two new bandmates and came out 15-minutes late, but the crowd of about 300 didn’t seem to care. The band came out just crushing the audience with music that was dark and heavy, very reminecent of Black Sabbath. The set included such cheery tunes as “I like Suicide” and “Kill Each Other.”
The heavier rock tracks made the bands new radio single “They Say” sound like “Hit Me Baby One More Time.” We’re talking slamming guitars and this was also the first major moshpit I’ve sween all festival.
The Mohave tent was only about a quarter of the way full. I’d hate to have to be the one to tell them that there were way more people rockin’ out to Serj last night.
http://soundcheck.freedomblogging.com/2 ... #more-1800 |
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Posted: Apr 28, 2008 - 12:48 AM
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Joined: Mar 05, 2008
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Wtf is that supposed to mean?!
"I'd hate to have to be the one to tell them that there were way more people rockin' out to Serj last night."
Serj is awesome, and almost nobody has heard of SoB other than System fans. So of course it's gonna be empty! They're bashing BOTH Serj and Scars.
1st one sounded like they enjoyed it though! That's a 1st. |
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Posted: Apr 28, 2008 - 01:08 AM
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| Yeah, the second review by "Kelli" is retarded. Serj had his performance in the OUTDOOR stage, where the capacity can reach thousands, Scars on Broadway performed on a smaller stage, hence the smaller audience. As 'Bounce!' said, only a tiny portion of the rock world have heard of Scars On Broadway, it's retarded to compare them to Serj Tankian, he's released an album and toured around the world - he's bound to attract a bigger audience. |
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Posted: Apr 28, 2008 - 01:10 AM
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Joined: Mar 02, 2008
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Location: Brooklyn, NY
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| Again, it's just people trying to stir drama. That's not going to spoil my mood though This Coachella Festival is giving me high hopes. |
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Posted: Apr 28, 2008 - 01:20 AM
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Ego Brain
Joined: May 07, 2006
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Location: the valley of the walls
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meh, i don't put too much stock in reviews, good or bad. at a huge festival, there are always a bunch of retards just wanting to be there -- not giving a rat's ass about the music. so i wouldn't expect there to be many true fans of scars or serj. i mean, reviewer said it was first major moshpit of the festival -- what kind of crowd is that? bunch of weenies! what excited me was comment about slamming guitars.  rock on daron and john! |
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Posted: Apr 28, 2008 - 10:56 PM
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A review by Los AngelesTimes:
Another band's orbits converged even closer, with System of a Down singer Serj Tankian performing his own set on Friday night and the band's Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan unveiling their new project, Scars on Broadway, in the Mojave Tent on Saturday.
System, which is on an open-ended hiatus, is one of the pillars of Los Angeles rock, and it's one of the few metal/hard-rock bands that can claim critical respect, so curiosity was high for this debut.
Like Tankian's lighter, more nuanced music, Scars on Broadway took System's idiosyncratic rock in a related but distinct direction, this one decidedly more assaultive.
The headbanging opening elicited the rare Coachella mosh pit, but as the set progressed the music displayed some range. The theatrical Tankian is System of a Down's most visible member, but guitarist Malakian is a principal architect of its sound, and he applied some of the same imagination to Scars, with some soaring harmonies, varied tempos and textures and even some Middle Eastern tonalities.
But this is music geared to the hard-rock loyalist, fired by lyrics of apocalyptic dread and delivered with pile-driver force by Malakian, drummer Dolmayan and their three bandmates. Don't be surprised if they're headlining a festival soon, but don't expect it to be Coachella.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la ... 4716.story |
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Posted: Apr 28, 2008 - 11:03 PM
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