System Of A Down’s Shavo Odadjian on shelved collab with KoRn’s Jonathan Davis: “It didn’t feel right to any one of us”

nme.com:

System Of A Down’s Shavo Odadjian has opened up about his shelved collaboration with KoRn‘s Jonathan Davis.The legendary metal band’s bassist and member of Seven Hours After Violet discussed why he decided to not release his joint track with the KoRn vocalist while appearing as a guest on the Las Vegas radio station KOMP 92.3.As Blabbermouth notes, Odadjian had reported back in April 2023 that the song would be released as part of Seven Hours After Violet’s self-titled debut LP.

However, upon its release on October 11 2024, the song was not featured on the album’s tracklist.“Morgoth [real name Michael Montoya – and guitarist of Seven Hours After Violet] 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.