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Our experienced team has worked for some of the biggest brands in music. From testing headphones to reviewing albums, our experts aim to create reviews you can trust. Find out more about how we review.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n As it stands in 2025, the chances of us ever getting a new System Of A Down<\/a> record look pretty dismal. In 2020, it took a bloody conflict in their Armenian homeland to get the band into the studio and record two tracks. Protect The Land and Genocidal Humanoidz were bittersweet reminders of just why we fell in love with SOAD\u2019s zany, scattershot metal in the first place, and just what a vital voice the band are in a world hellbent on repeatedly scraping itself across the bottom of the barrel.<\/p>\n But another half decade has since passed. Thank God, then, for guitarist Daron Malakian, who\u2019s continued to fill the void by writing bonkers, fury-fuelled bangers for his side-project Scars On Broadway. Given that Daron wrote the lion\u2019s share of SOAD\u2019s output, it\u2019s not surprising that this third album is everything fans have been hankering for.<\/p>\n Opener Killing Spree lurches between about three melodies, each of them as irresistible as the last in a hail of shred, chug and eyewatering lyrics: \u2018It\u2019s going to feel like Jesus is coming back! It\u2019s going to feel like a shot of fucking smack\u2026\u2019. Satan Hussein opens with a rousing chant of \u2018Quaaludes! Vicodin! Chinese Cups and Echinacea!\u2019.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n Either track would have felt at home on any SOAD album. Manic and forcefully earwormy, with a biting political undertow, the latter warns: \u2018I\u2019m the neighbourhood watch, a machine gun in my crotch\u2026 Thou shall not kill\u2019. The Shame Game opens with the same sense of creeping dread as SOAD\u2019s Aerials, before veering in a more whimsical direction.<\/p>\n On a record that is unmistakably the work of its creator, there are left turns. Done Me Wrong breaks midway into a loopy, Armenian-folk power-keyboard solo. Destroy The Power is like a game of whack-a-mole veering between a Ghost-like choral hymn, prog and nu metal<\/a> crunch. It is never once boring. In a world where we can\u2019t have System Of A Down, this will more than do nicely.<\/p>\n Addicted To The Violence is out now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You can trust Louder Our experienced team has worked for some of the biggest brands in music. From…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-4855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}