Artist: SCARS ON BROADWAY
Album: SCARS ON BROADWAY (CD)

Year: 2008
Media type: CD

Scars on Broadway is the debut album by Scars on Broadway, a band consisting of System of a Down members Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan. The album contains 15 tracks all written by Malakian.

On what direction his album will take, Malakian states:

"It will probably be something electronic mixed in with traditional Armenian and thrash, death, black, and doom 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 6th, 2007, the drum tracks for the album had been finished and the band moved into the next stage of recording. On July 25th, 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 "Drugs", a live-only song that Daron would often play in between songs.

All songs written and composed by Daron Malakian.

TRACKLIST:

1. "Serious" 2:08
2. "Funny" 2:55
3. "Exploding/Reloading" 2:15
4. "Stoner Hate" 2:00
5. "Insane" 3:07
6. "World Long Gone" 3:16
7. "Kill Each Other/Live Forever" 3:05
8. "Babylon" 3:56
9. "Chemicals" 3:13
10. "Enemy" 3:03
11. "Universe" 4:15
12. "3005" 2:54
13. "Cute Machines" 3:03
14. "Whoring Streets" 3:01
15. "They Say" 2:48

LINE-UP:

Daron Malakian — vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards/ organs/ mellotron, producer
John Dolmayan — drums

Dave Schiffman — engineer
John Sukas Cranfield — digital editing
Ryan Williams — mixing
Eddy Schreyer — mastering
Vartan Malakian — artwork