Rockers System Of A Down have hit back at reports they've split, insisting their hiatus really is just that. Fans feared news of frontman Serj Tankian's new record label and his bandmates' solo projects suggested the group had parted ways, but bassist Shavo Odadjian says there's nothing to fear.

He explains, "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. It's like, you kind of miss each other after a while and 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."

Odadjian, himself, has big solo plans - he's set to launch a new web-based music community site called urSession.com, which doubles as a record company, according to Blabbermouth.net.

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