While the world patiently waits for the System of a Down record that is apparently happening soon enough, drummer for the group John Dolmayan has begun work on a covers album that he claims is simply "practice" for him!
According to Dolmayan's Twitter:
Started working on my cover album, should be good practice for the eventual SOAD album sometime in the future.
It'll be interesting to hear Dolmayan's work by himself on a few different levels; what songs he picks to cover, who he's going to have in the band (if even anyone else- I'm not aware of him being a multi-instrumentalist), and how he covers the songs in terms of style. Plus it's cool that while he announces it'll be something he'd doing outside System of a Down, he lets the fans know it's going to happen with the band soon enough! Fingers crossed!