More than a year-and-a-half after the celebrated return of System of a Down, very little information has been released about a possible new album, which would be their first since ‘Hypnotize’ came out in November 2005.

John discussed the possible timetable for the Armenian-American quartet's new album with the Montreal Gazette:

"We don’t know what will happen next, but I’d like to be in the studio at this time next year... possibly making an album by 2014. If we were concerned about what people think, System wouldn't exist. I have no concerns about what the album will sound like. I just worry about when it will come out."

Although System of a Down lace many of their songs with social and political content, Dolmayan says that the band’s intention is not to preach:

"That's not what people pay for. They pay to come see us play live, create magic onstage, not to be told how to live their lives... If someone takes something positive out of our music, or what we say on stage, that’s great. But we don’t ever want to force them."