SYSTEM SERJ DOWN WITH ACHOSEN SHAVO WU-TANG PLAN

System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian is down with the new project from bassist Shavo Odadjian and Wu-Tang’s RZA.

System Of A Down bassist Shavo Odadjian is not only spearheading the new internet musicicans community urSESSION, he’s also trying to put the finishing touches on the first album by his new band, Achosen.

The group features RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan, and Odadjian said it’s a dream come true.

“Me and RZA working together making music? That’s fun. I’ll do that for free. It’s not even time. I’ll stay up all night and do a couple of shots and work. That’s RZA. My friend and my bandmate is my idol and vice versa, and that’s a trip. If anyone should know how RZA…what he’s done to music. What he’s done to hip-hop. What a change he’s made to lyrics, and to beats and to hip-hop itself. But to have that guy respect me as much as I respect him, to do a band together and to know that we’re there mentally boom (makes connection gesture). That just in itself gives me the time and the space to do it. That should be coming out early in the new year. We’re about seventy percent done with the record.”

So what does his band mates in System Of A Down, who are on an specified hiatus, think of Achosen?

“[System Of A Down vocalist] Serj [Tankian] who is not the biggest rap fan was just like, ‘Get out of here! What are you doing?!’ It’s different stuff man. Achosen is going to trip people out. That’s all I can say for it. It’s going to trip people out in a really good way. I think rock fans are going to start liking hip-hop. It’s not rap metal. There’s no heavy guitars or anything like that. I’m doing all the beats. It’s just like a different realm of hip-hop with heavy hitters on top of us.”

Odadjian contributed bass to the forthcoming release by the Wu-Tang Clan, and he has to work around RZA’s schedule to get Achosen finished. Look for it to be ready and in stores by early 2008.