News•August 23, 2024 1:04 AM ET•2,767 views

Seven Hours After Violet (System of a Down, Left To Suffer, Winds Of Plague) share second new single

Seven Hours After Violet, the new project led by System Of A Down bassist Shavo Odadjian, is set to drop their self-titled debut album on October 11 via Sumerian Records' 1336 Records.

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The lineup features Left To Suffer vocalist Taylor Barber, guitarist/backing vocalist Alejandro Aranda, and Winds Of Plague guitarist Michael Montoya and drummer Josh Johnson.

Alongside the album announcement, the band released their second single, "Radiance," available on all streaming platforms with an accompanying music video. This follows their debut single, "Paradise," which dropped in June.

Odadjian shared the following:

That's one of the heaviest songs on the record. I have a few really heavy ones. But I wanted to release something brutal first, 'cause… I don't know… I just kind of like the heaviness of it, and I think the world needs to hear really heavy music from me right now. They've heard a lot, so I kind of wanted to drop that first. I feel like after that we can move into the other stuff, because it does have the melodic, it has the grooves, it has the heavy, heavy stuff.
My singer, Taylor Barber, he comes from the world of deathcore and the growling. His voice is an instrument, and he's a wonder. He's like the new wonder of the world that no one knows yet that's there. He does have a following and he comes from another band called LEFT TO SUFFER, which is a grindcore band. But he sings like a canary as well. His range is so huge. He's the perfect member. He's the perfect singer that came in and can do all the parts. And then also we got Alejandro Aranda, who, he is just this musical genius who came in. He was the last member, and I didn't even know I needed that member, but, now it's, like, of course I needed him. Of course he fit perfectly. He does side vocals. He sings along with Taylor perfectly. So it's like a two-vocal band now, two-vocalist band. And we got Josh Johnson on the drums, and he's amazing. He hails from a band called WINDS OF PLAGUE; he used to play with them. So he's talented as hell. So, yeah, I'm honored and lucky to have these guys around me and for us to be able to do this music together.