Baskytarista Shavo Odadjian odvrátil spekulace, že se kapela rozpadá:

"SYSTEM is alive and well. We"re just not working together right now. We kind of like split up at first, but you know, we"re brothers, man, we"ll take bullets for each other. So it"s like, you kind of miss each other after a while and you, one guy makes the first move, then another starts making phone calls....this is a juggernaut, man. SYSTEM OF A DOWN is my lifeline. It"ll never go away. We could not make a record for 10 years — that"s not gonna happen, but I"m just saying we could — and we"ll come back strong."

Zároveň se na svět dostaly informace o sólové desce Serje Tankiana. Album "Elect Dead" vyjde 23. října u Serjical Strike/Reprise Records s tímto obsahem:

01. Empty Walls
02. The Unthinking Majority
03. Money
04. Feed Us
05. Saving Us
06. Sky Is Over
07. Baby
08. Honking Antelope
09. Lie Lie Lie
10. Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
11. Beethoven's Cunt
12. Elect the Dead