Order your exclusive Scars On Broadway t-shirt and Daron Malakian Metal Hammer cover now

A Scars On Broadway shirt and magazine cover

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Metal Hammer has teamed up with System Of A Down legend and Scars On Broadway mainman Daron Malakian to offer fans a world exclusive bundle you can't get anywhere else.

To celebrate the release of Scars On Broadway's brand new studio album, Addicted To The Violence, the bundle includes a limited edition Scars On Broadway shirt and a special Daron Malakian Metal Hammer alternate cover, including an interview with the man himself where he discusses his career, his music and what might come next.

Order your Scars On Broadway bundle from the official Metal Hammer store now.

A Daron Malakian shirt and magazine cover — (Image credit: Future)

Inside the interview, Malakian reveals that he struggled when System Of A Down first went on hiatus in the 2000s, explaining: "I’m not gonna lie, it was difficult for me at first because that’s not really what I wanted. But I can’t force other people to do something just because I wanted it.

“My first thing was, ‘OK, if I release music, I need an outlet for that,’” Malakian adds, “and Scars became that outlet. I’ll be honest with you, man, I’m just as proud of the Scars stuff as anything I’ve done. I think some of my best shit is on [the first album].”

Reviewing Addicted To The Violence for Metal Hammer, Dannii Leivers wrote of the album: "On a record that is unmistakably the work of its creator, there are left turns. Done Me Wrong breaks midway into a loopy, Armenian-folk power-keyboard solo. Destroy The Power is like a game of whack-a-mole veering between a Ghost-like choral hymn, prog and nu metal crunch. It is never once boring. In a world where we can’t have System Of A Down, this will more than do nicely."

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Merlin was promoted to Executive Editor of Louder in early 2022, following over ten years working at Metal Hammer. While there, he served as Online Editor and Deputy Editor, before being promoted to Editor in 2016. Before joining Metal Hammer, Merlin worked as Associate Editor at Terrorizer Magazine and has written for Classic Rock, Rock Sound, eFestivals and others. Across his career he has interviewed legends including Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Metallica, Iron Maiden (including getting a trip on Ed Force One courtesy of Bruce Dickinson), Guns N' Roses, KISS, Slipknot, System Of A Down and Meat Loaf. He has also presented and produced the Metal Hammer Podcast, presented the Metal Hammer Radio Show and is probably responsible for 90% of all nu metal-related content making it onto the site.

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