For someone who has written some of the wildest and weirdest music of the last 30 years, Daron Malakian is a man of remarkably simple pleasures. When Hammer asks the System Of A Down and Scars On Broadway guitarist (and singer in the latter) what he does outside of music, there’s a long pause.
“Not much! I watch some sports with my father-in-law, play a bit of golf,” he says with a laugh, aware of the apparent mundanity of it. But then music has been Daron’s major obsession ever since he began collecting Kiss albums at the age of four.
