In a recent interview with Sylvia Alvarado from Las Vegas radio station KOMP 92.3, SYSTEM OF A DOWN bassist Shavo Odadjian provided more insight into his unexpected decision to cancel a collaboration with KORN‘s Jonathan Davis.
In April 2023, Odadjian announced the impending release of a track featuring Davis on SEVEN HOURS AFTER VIOLET‘s debut album. However, the song was notably absent when the album launched in the fall.
Shavo now said (as transcribed by Blabbermouth): “[SEVEN HOURS AFTER VIOLET guitarist] Morgoth [Michael Montoya] had a chorus he had sang for [Davis] a while back. ‘Cause he produces a lot of bands, and he’s worked with Jonathan Davis. And he’s, like, ‘Let’s write a song around this and then play it for him and see if he digs it.’ And it just didn’t work out well. But at the time when I announced that [Jonathan was going to be making a guest appearance on the album], we were making that song and it was still gonna be a record filled with features. We weren’t gonna get our own singer, we weren’t gonna have our own band. It was gonna be an album of my music with featured vocalists on there from around the planet.
“If we do work together, if we do bring Jonathan Davis in, I want him to work on this with us, not just have a part that he’s done 10 years ago and have that regurgitated,” Shavo continued. “So that’s what it was. It was nothing on him. He’s amazing. We’re friends. I love Jonathan. So it’s, like, we can work together any day, any time. And we will. That song actually became ‘Paradise’, the first [SEVEN HOURS AFTER VIOLET] single. He was on the chorus of that, and it was totally different. It was the same riff, but it was a different vibe of song. I don’t think he dug it. Now listening back, it was premature. It was something we were wanting to do. I shouldn’t have announced it. It was my bad. Because I was so excited — I was excited at the time… It wasn’t what it should be. When it’s right, you know it’s right. And it didn’t feel right to any one of us. That happens in art. Let’s say you’re a painter. I’m sure you paint a lot of paintings. You don’t release them all. You keep some to yourself.”
Source: metaladdicts.com
