(new band with Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan from System of a Down)
The album isn't out until next week... but... err...
What is the name of the band mean? Read this (below) from Guitar World magazine.
GW - What’s the story behind the name of the band?
Malakian - In Glendale, where I live, there’s a street called Broadway. The bottoms of the light posts have swastikas on them. They were made that way [in the Twenties]; It’s not like skinheads carved them in or anything like that. The symbols aren’t tilted, like Nazi swastikas are but it’s obvious what they are. And I always thought it was a trip, like, “What’s up with that?” There was always something a little mysterious about it. So one day I was talking to my friend - we were on our way to a hockey game - and he said something about, “Yeah, those swastikas on Broadway.” And I said, “Wait I second…” I didn’t think I wanted to call the band Swastikas on Broadway [laughs], but Scars on Broadway came to me right after that, because of the light posts.
Note: I used to live in Glendale and the swastika story is 100% true. Glendale was once a big KKK stronghold in the 1920's-1940's. It's also interesting with it's bad racist past, that Glendale now has a huge vietnamese and armenian population
Fine, fine... I got excited and had originally posted a link. I removed it. I will go sit in a corner now.
we know you meant it well.