System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian has mentioned his first steps into discovering heavy metallic music, and whereas he cannot recall the precise band that first received him into the style, he does recall the primary metallic band he ever noticed stay – and that he solely noticed them as a result of his girlfriend on the time needed to go to the present.
“I’m unsure precisely which band actually received me into metallic,” he explains within the new challenge of Metallic Hammer. “I grew up with numerous Armenian and European music, disco within the 70s… My upbringing wasn’t very band-based. Iron Maiden was the primary metallic band I noticed stay as a result of my girlfriend was an enormous fan and she or he took me alongside though I had no thought who they have been. I used to be like 16 or 17, and it was unbelievable – an actual mind-blowing expertise.”
As a matter of face, numerous Tankian’s journey into metallic has been a case of happenstance, together with his personal forays into making music.
“After I began taking part in, I wasn’t younger,” he reveals. “I used to be 19 years previous, so was already an grownup. It’s a special expertise to numerous musos I’ve met, both in my band or others. Most individuals appear to seek out it after they’re eight or 9 and commit to creating this dream a actuality. For me, it simply unintentionally got here into my life.”
Serj Tankian would ultimately kind the band that will develop into System Of A Down with guitarist Daron Malakian, releasing their first studio album in 1998. After 4 extra album releases throughout the next seven years, SOAD would go on hiatus, solely reforming for infrequent excursions and one-off performances. They have not launched a brand new studio album since 2005’s Hypnotize, with no indicators of the 4 members returning to the studio collectively any time quickly.
You may learn extra from Tankian within the newest challenge of Metallic Hammer, starring nu metallic survivors Papa Roach on the duvet, out now.
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