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System of a Down Have Confirmed They Are Recording a Sixth Album
Armenian-American alt-metal band System of a Down have confirmed that they are working on a sixth studio album. This new release will see the band return after more than a decade as their last albums were Mezmerize and Hypnotize, both released in 2005.
This information is confirmed by the band’s drummer John Dolmayan, who spoke recently with Kerrang. “Our playing ability is better than it ever has been and we’re trying new things,” Dolmayan says, “We’re not trying to make Toxicity Part II, just because it was by far our biggest album. This needs to be something for a new generation of SOAD fans, so everyone can see we’re not resting on our laurels,” he tells the site, via Loudwire. Furthermore, he says that the band has written 15 songs over six months, although it should not be assumed that all 15 will be on the record.
He makes it clear that the band is focused on working as a team, saying, “I want everyone on board and feeling good about it, that’s what we’re trying to accomplish right now.”
The band will also be playing several Europe dates next summer. The dates are listed below.
Tour dates:
06/07 – Nancy, FR @ Open Air Zenith
06/10 – Paris, FR @ Download Festival
06/12 – Prague, CZ @ O2 Arena
06/17 – Łódź, PL @ Impact Festival
06/20 – Nimes, FR @ Nimes Festival
06/23 – Madrid, ES @ Download Festival
07/02 – Arras, FR @ Main Square Festival
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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