And that’s hard, because your version made me realize Bowie songs usually have more than one emotion going on: They’re not just happy or sad. But yours pushes the same emotional buttons. Other people could play that song or make it sound the same. Read more: 10 metal-loving mainstream musicians who might surprise you The Bowie cover works because you nail the feeling of it. And if you don’t like that, listen to whatever makes you happy. There’s gonna be a lot of people that listen to this album and say, “This is shit.” The only thing I can say is, “Don’t listen to it if you don’t like it. If I had that mindset when we were putting out System albums, I would have played trying to keep people happy instead of trying to make the best song possible. But there’s gonna be people who like it and don’t, no matter what you do. Why would I be intimidated? If people don’t like it, they don’t like it. Is it intimidating to put yourself out there and cover a Bowie song? But if I mix it up right, maybe you’ll like it. You don’t necessarily like the same spice as I do. Music, like everything else, is basically a spice. But you made me hear something in “Road To Nowhere” that I never noticed before. But if you put him in a different band, you’ll get a different M. He’s very talented, as well as a very nice guy. That’s where you have to give people the ability to be artists. Shadows-I’m not knocking him-but I was pleasantly surprised that The Guy From Avenged Sevenfold could pull off Radiohead that well. I thought, “How would John Bonham have played that song?” All respect to M. With the Radiohead one, I love that song and the video in particular. How do you decide on an approach for a song? Some of your covers are similar, but others are totally different. Part of the goal is for people to listen to it and not know it’s a cover. Part of the goal is for people to enjoy it. I think if you make a cover that sounds exactly like the original, what’s the point of doing it? You’ve got to make it your own song. My rule is probably different than other people’s. Read more: Top 50 metal songs from the past 20 years including System Of A Down, Slipknot, more Do you have a standard for the difference between a good cover and a bad one? For this project, in the limited time we had to do it four or five years, we were able to come up with 14 to 17 songs that I thought were good enough.Īnd each of those songs I had earmarked for different singers. Even for Toxicity, we recorded like 44 songs and whittled it down to the 15 that made the album. Did you actually record 30 or 40 tracks for the album? So having a covers album makes sense in that I don’t necessarily have to create something brand new. Primarily, I generally don’t write songs. What are some of your favorite covers by other artists? I would just sit there with tapes and put together albums that set different moods. I used to do a lot of that when I was a kid. Here are all of System of a Down’s albums ranked.I was personally interested in your album, because I make compilations of cover songs, and I’m still into making old-school mixtapes. System of a Down has sold over 40 million records worldwide, while two of their singles “Aerials” and “Hypnotize” reached number one on Billboard‘s Alternative Songs chart. The band went on hiatus in 2006 and reunited in 2010 since then, they have performed live occasionally despite having not released any new material since the Mezmerize and Hypnotize albums in 2005. System of a Down has been nominated for four Grammy Awards, and their song “B.Y.O.B.” won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2006.
The band achieved commercial success with the release of five studio albums, three of which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200. The band currently consists of Serj Tankian (lead vocals, keyboards), Daron Malakian (vocals, guitar), Shavo Odadjian (bass, backing vocals) and John Dolmayan (drums).
System of a Down is an Armenian-American heavy metal band from Glendale, California, formed in 1994.
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