Seven Hours After Violet

System of a Down’s Shavo Odadjian has been working with some side projects over the past few years, and after months of teasing we get to hear some of it. He’s just released the first single with his latest band, Seven Hours After Violet (S.H.A.V.).
The song is the first glimpse of an upcoming album from the group that also features vocalist Taylor Barber of Left to Suffer, guitarists Morgoth (Winds of Plague) and Alejandro Aranda (Scarypoolparty) and drummer Josh Johnson from Winds of Plague.
“Until this band, every side project I’ve done has been outside of the walls of heavy music,” Odadjian explains. “I steered away from anything heavy because System of a Down is heavy. Once I got started with Seven Hours After Violet, I had to let go of that. I said, ‘Let me go with my gut and do what I’m best at.’ For the first time ever in my career, I just said, ‘As long as I love it, I don’t give a fuck what anybody else thinks,’ and that was extremely liberating. Seven Hours After Violet is the result. It’s my favorite thing I’ve done since System and I can’t wait for the world to hear it.”