Scars on Broadway (album)
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| Studio album by Scars on Broadway | ||
| Released | July 29, 2008 | |
| Recorded | 2007-2008 Sunset Sound Studios Los Angeles, CA Steakhouse Studio North Hollywood, CA |
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| Genre | Alternative metal, hard rock, experimental rock | |
| Length | 45:04 | |
| Label | Interscope | |
| Producer | Daron Malakian | |
| Singles from Scars on Broadway | ||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | (73%) |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AbsolutePunk | (66%) |
| Allmusic |    |
| The Aquarian Weekly | (C-) |
| Kerrang! | |
| Rock Sound |   |
| Rolling Stone | |
Scars on Broadway is the 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.
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.
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.
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