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Scars on Broadway (album)

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Released
  
July 29, 2008

Artist
  
Scars on Broadway

Producer
  
Daron Malakian

Length
  
45:04

Release date
  
29 July 2008

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Recorded
  
2007-2008 Sunset Sound Studios Los Angeles, CA Steakhouse Studio North Hollywood, CA

Label
  
Insomniac/Interscope Records

Genres
  
Heavy metal, Alternative metal, Alternative rock, Experimental rock

Similar
  
Daron Malakian albums, Alternative metal albums

Scars on broadway full album


Scars on Broadway is the first and to date only studio album by Scars on Broadway, a band consisting of System of a Down members Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan. The album contains fifteen tracks, all written by Malakian.

Contents

The album opened at #17 on the Billboard 200 with 24,000 copies.

As of April 2010, the album has sold 83,000 copies in the US.

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Writing and recording process

On what direction his album will take, Malakian states:

"It will probably be something very heavy mixed in with traditional Armenian and thrash, death, doom, black and dark metal influences. When, or even if, the music comes out, it will still be structured, just like System of a Down's music is."

This electronic idea was demonstrated in all 2005 concerts in which Malakian, instead of merely singing the chorus to the song "Sugar" or "War?," as well as "Old School Hollywood" from Mezmerize, distorted his voice electronically with a Vocoder. Daron, in a recent interview, has said that the sound will be influenced by classic rock such as David Bowie, Brian Eno, Yes, Neil Young, and Roxy Music. Malakian has shifted his songwriting away from SOAD's frazzled metal to more song-based work. "I don't feel we're the mosh-pit band," says Malakian. "That's just where I'm comfortable as a writer right now."

Scars on Broadway began recording on September 27, 2007. For the recording of their debut album, the two will be "accompanied by some great musicians." On December 6, 2007, the drum tracks for the album had been finished and the band moved into the next stage of recording. On July 25, the band released a teaser for the album featuring the song "Babylon"

The band has released "They Say" as their first airplay single. It was accompanied by a video that was shot and released in late June.

The song "Enemy" contains a part of the System of a Down song unofficially referred to as "Drugs", a live-only song that Daron would often play in between songs.

Track listing

All tracks written by Daron Malakian.

Personnel

Scars on Broadway is:

  • Daron Malakian — vocals, guitars, bass guitars, keyboards/organs/mellotrons
  • John Dolmayan — drums
  • Produced by: Daron Malakian
  • Engineered by: Dave Schiffman
  • Additional Engineering and Editing by: John Silas Cranfield
  • Recorded @ Sunset Sound Studios: North Hollywood, California
  • Assisted by: Clifton Allen
  • Additional Recording @ Steakhouse Studio: North Hollywood
  • Mixed by: Ryan Williams @ Pulse Recording: Los Angeles, California
  • Mastered by: Eddy Schreyer @ Oasis Mastering: Burbank, California
  • Worldwide Representation: Velvet Hammer Music and Management Group
  • Legal Representation: Jon Blaufarb
  • Business Management: David Weise & Jacob Jackel for David Weise & Associates, Inc.
  • A&R for Interscope: Martin Kierszenbaum and Ben Gordon
  • Additional Performances by: Franky Perez and Danny Shamoun
  • Artwork by Vartan Malakian
  • Cover and Inlay Art by Sandra Cand
  • Package Design by Brandy Flower
  • Songs

    1Serious2:07
    2Funny2:55
    3Exploding/Reloading2:15

    References

    Scars on Broadway (album) Wikipedia