9/11, censorship and conspiracy theories: the story of System Of A Down's Chop Suey!

Metal’s industrial-conspiracy complex was way off base, of course. So were Clear Channel, whose tacit ban failed to halt Chop ...

System of a Down's last album, ' Hypnotize ,' turns 20

If you're just sitting in your car and waiting for a new System of a Down album, you've officially been waiting for two ...
loudwire

System of a Down’s Shavo Odadjian: ‘I’m Having Fun Again’ With My New Band

North Kingsley recently dropped their debut EP, Vol. 1, with their second planned for October. Instead of releasing a full-length album, the group will hit fans with a new three-song EP every few ...
loudwire

System of a Down’s Daron Malakian Recalls Releasing ‘Toxicity’ Before 9/11

Malakian discussed writing one of System of a Down's definitive songs, "Chop Suey!" "I remember when I wrote ‘Chop Suey!’ we didn’t even have a tour bus yet,” Malakian recalls. “We were still in an RV ...
Alternative Press

System Of A Down bassist on hiring band psychiatrist: "I’ve had that conversation"

We’ve been reporting on System Of A Down finally making new music for quite a while now, and with the band still being deadlocked on the direction of the new album, SOAD‘s bassist Shavo Odadjian has ...
Alternative Press

Daron Malakian on System Of A Down: "It's not looking like we're doing something together soon"

There has been plenty of talk in the past of System Of A Down finally recording a follow up to 2005’s Mezmerize and Hypnotize, but guitarist Daron Malakian has confirmed that the band have now stalled ...
Los Angeles Times

System of a Down: The reunion that’s being unjustly overlooked?

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. For a brief moment -- sometime in early 2005 or so -- its seemed as if L ...
brooklynvegan

System Of A Down's magnum opus 'Toxicity' turns 20 -- retrospective review

We’re about two decades removed from the peak of the nu metal era, an era that’s been re-entering the current music discourse in the forms of nostalgia, continued hatred, and re-evaluations, ...
Rolling Stone

Serj Tankian Describes Telling System of a Down to Find a New Singer

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. When the band reconvened in 2010, Tankian proposed a four ...
brooklynvegan

System Of A Down made live debuts of new singles at first show in 2 years (videos, setlist)

System Of A Down played their first show in two years at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena on Friday (10/15). Their career-spanning, 30-song setlist included almost all of their classic Toxicity (which turned ...
Uproxx

System Of A Down Tells Us About Ending A 15-Year Drought To Benefit War-Torn Artsakh

Who had “System Of A Down record new music” on their 2020 bingo card? Probably not even System Of A Down. The Armenian-American alt-metal band haven’t released an LP since the 2005 double-header ...