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"Pull Oasis out of your ass!" Watch System Of A Down's Daron Malakian lead entire stadium in Oasis tapeworm chant

System Of A Down's long-running beef with Oasis has now been simmering for a quarter of a century

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"I look over, and Daron had fallen off the stage and was on the ground. He had completely lost himself." Even a band as huge as System Of A Down had to start somewhere. This is the untold story of Soil

Before System Of A Down, there was Soil. Its former members look back on what would be the birth of a metal legend

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"It's about understanding the imperfection of your life. Imperfections are unbeatable." Queens of the Stone Age return with new single Easy Street

Watch the video for the first new song from QOTSA since 2023

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System of a Down review – perverted pop and anti-war anger mixed into a metal melee

The veteran band may not have much new material to show for the past decade or so but this brutal, melodious mayhem still inspires catharsis

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"Metal is a better place for having a happy, healthy System Of A Down in it." System Of A Down's UK return was electric, euphoric and one of the best rock stadium shows in recent memory

"Are System Of A Down back?!" one fan on our row remarked. Yes, yes they absolutely are

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“One of the most unlikely bands ever to notch up a string of number-one albums”: Every System Of A Down album ranked from worst to best

As the nu metal-era giants prepare to rock Tottenham Stadium, we review and rank their five studio albums

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Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 12-18 includes Harrison Ford and Kristen Bell

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of July 12-18 include actor Harrison Ford, country singer Louise Mandrell and actor-director Cameron Crowe

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“Using our history, our genocide, our pain to their political advantage”: System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian lambasts Israel for recognising Armenian genocide amidst Palestinian conflict

The singer slams the perceived hypocrisy, days after a United Nations commission accused the Israeli military of targetting children in the Gaza Strip

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“I remember them telling me, ‘You don’t play angry’”: Bassist in Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian’s pre-System Of A Down band was fired for not being “angry enough”

David Hakopyan was a member of Hollywood rockers Soil before they re-named themselves and dominated the nu metal era

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"The floor descends into an orgiastic frenzy of moshers, dancers and crowdsurfers while cups fly overhead offering relief from the clammy press." Cult heroes Acid Bath put on the hottest gig in metal as they make their UK debut

Acid Bath's first ever UK gig comes almost 30 years since the band split - and weeks before they play stadiums with System Of A Down

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"It was a beautiful scar on the metal world." How Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn and the rest took nu metal from hated subgenre to the biggest thing on Planet Earth

Nu metal may have been shunned by metal elitists, but it took heavy music to the masses like never before, or since

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“Are you trying to get us killed?” The explosive story behind System Of A Down’s Toxicity album

System Of A Down’s second album Toxicity gave nu metal’s most political band a platform to be heard . But some people wanted to shut them up –permanently

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“We’ve played each other songs, but we still haven’t come eye-to-eye on how things should be done”: 15 years after their comeback, will there ever be a sixth System Of A Down album?

Since reuniting in 2011, System Of A Down have headlined festivals, packed arenas and released two songs. What’s the situation with their long-anticipated follow-up to Mezmerize and Hypnotize? Well, don’t hold your breath.

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“Genocide still occurs today. We have not learned our lesson of people over profits”: Watch System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian sing heartfelt prayer for genocide victims at Sick New World festival last weekend

The frontman sang the traditional prayer Der Voghormia, one day after Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day was recognised on April 24

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Shrooms, alligators and the swamp: how the ‘satanic e-girls of TikTok’ revived psychedelic sludge metallers Acid Bath

The Louisiana band came to a tragically early end in the 90s, but after going viral they’ll soon play stadiums with System of a Down. They look back on the claggy riffs and circle pits

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“People were saying that the style we were playing would mean we never got signed”: Sounding nothing like anyone else, how System Of A Down overcame the odds and started their climb to dominance

1998 single Sugar brought the future nu metal superstars to the dance – and they were weird as hell

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“Kirk Hammett’s in front of me with a guitar trying to teach me stuff. They’re like, ‘Get your stuff. You’re flying on the private jet with us’”: Daron Malakian on the time he saved a Metallica gig – and ended up filling in for an injured James Hetfield

Malakian stepped up to sub for Hetfield at the last minute while on tour – and stuck around until he was fully recovered

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"I'll never forget it. It still brings goosebumps." System Of A Down's Daron Malakian on being asked to fill in for injured James Hetfield on Metallica's Summer Sanitarium tour in 2000

System Of A Down had yet to make their breakthrough – but guitarist Malakian was thrust onto the stage with metal royalty

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Inverse

25 Years Ago, A Schlocky Horror Movie Wasted A Brilliant Idea

There have been dozens of Dracula movies. Only one had System of a Down on the soundtrack.

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"I thought this album was going to be the biggest of my career." The crazy forgotten music project featuring Ozzy Osbourne, System Of A Down, Wu-Tang Clan, Xzibit and more than was meant to be legendary, but was a total disaster

This could have been incredible, but it was an absolute flop

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"Our fans were starting to say, ‘Hey, these guys are prophets, they’re saying things that hadn’t happened yet.'" 9/11, censorship and conspiracy theories: the bizarre story behind the System Of A Down classic that became metal's biggest song

Not even System Of A Down themselves could have predicted just how big this song would become

Louder

Here's who I'd put on my Mount Rushmore of nu metal (three spots were easy, one was excruciatingly hard)

Nu metal has produced some of heavy music's biggest bands - and here are the four artists I'd hold up as the genre's Big 4

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"It felt like my head was going to explode." Alligator murder, police raids and abandoned adult theatres: the story of the chaotic video shoot that helped make an underground 90s band cult legends

Long before nu metal bands were getting arrested for making music videos, Acid Bath were setting a precedent

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"Speaking to your own child about that is very personal, vulnerable and emotional." System Of A Down's Serj Tankian reveals why he covered a Chris De Burgh classic - and teamed up with an EDM legend

Serj Tankian made some surprising musical choices for his new solo album

International Business Times UK

Sick New World Music Festival Boasts Insanely Stacked Lineup for 2026 Return

Sick New World is coming back in a big way for two shows of nu metal celebration set in two separate locations

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