{"id":482449,"date":"2019-02-20T07:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=796384"},"modified":"2019-02-20T07:00:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T14:00:48","slug":"see-daron-malakian-and-scars-on-broadways-devilish-guns-are-loaded-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/see-daron-malakian-and-scars-on-broadways-devilish-guns-are-loaded-video\/","title":{"rendered":"See Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway\u2019s Devilish \u2018Guns Are Loaded\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/daron-malakian-scars-on-broadway-guns-are-loaded.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/system-of-a-down\/\" id=\"auto-tag_system-of-a-down\" data-tag=\"system-of-a-down\">System of a Down<\/a> guitarist Daron Malakian created an eerie nightmare world full of skulls, gun-toting devils and grimy imagery of him and his band members melting into darkness for his video for \u201cGuns Are Loaded,\u201d a track off his Scars on Broadway side project\u2019s recent <em>Dictator<\/em> album.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Guns Are Loaded\u2019 isn\u2019t necessarily about specific things, but more about a feeling or emotion,\u201d he tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cThe song is about a feeling of anger, a feeling of a breaking point, or times when the world is coming down on you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He took inspiration from \u201cparts of our nature\u201d for the clip\u2019s dusky imagery. \u201cThe skulls and devils are symbols for parts of us within,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen you\u2019re to the point when life is coming down around you, sometimes a darker side, a darker feeling or darker thoughts come out of us. When we are afraid, frustrated or angry, that side may show itself. The guns also symbolize something too: The song isn\u2019t necessarily about actual guns, but they represent the desperation of a moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That said, he doesn\u2019t have any particular message for listeners, despite singing, \u201cThis is for the abused and for the abuser\/I know you didn\u2019t choose it, you just wanna survive\u201d at one point in the song. Malakian tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> he doesn\u2019t write songs to offer lessons on how to deal with dark emotions. \u201cI\u2019m not trying to tell anyone how to feel or react,\u201d he says. \u201cI would rather people take what they want from it. It\u2019s more about the feeling I had personally when I wrote the song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video comes ahead of a brief Scars on Broadway tour that he and his bandmates will embark on next month. Beyond planning for those, he says he\u2019s \u201cworking on a new Scars record,\u201d which he hopes to release soon. \u201cI\u2019m definitely focused on Scars right now and what is next for that band,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scars on Broadway Tour Dates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>March 3 \u2013 San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park<br \/>March 4 \u2013 Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom<br \/>March 6 \u2013 San Francisco, CA @ Slim\u2019s<br \/>March 7 \u2013 Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory<br \/>March 8 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern<br \/>March 17 \u2013 Columbus, Ohio @ Sonic Temple Festival<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/daron-malakian-scars-on-broadway-guns-are-loaded-video-796384\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>System of a Down guitarist Daron Malakian created an eerie nightmare world full of skulls, gun-toting devils and grimy imagery of him and his band members melting into darkness for his video for \u201cGuns Are Loaded,\u201d a track off his Scars on Broadway side project\u2019s recent Dictator album. \u201c\u2018Guns Are Loaded\u2019 isn\u2019t necessarily about specific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-482449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 07:09:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}