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I have to stop fighting the overwhelming evidence: nu metal and metalcore are officially dad rock now

Slipknot t-shirts being sold by Debenhams. Spotify 'Dad Rock' mixes featuring System Of A Down, Avenged Sevenfold and Killswitch Engage. Game over, mates

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“All those nu metal copy bands, I don’t give a s*** about”: System Of A Down’s Daron Malakian has some thoughts on being lumped in with the 90s nu metal scene

Scars On Broadway/System Of A Down guitarist Daron Malakian is interviewed in the brand new issue of Metal Hammer

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“I can’t force other people to do something just because I wanted it”: Daron Malakian admits System Of A Down’s hiatus was “difficult”

The guitarist/vocalist reveals he struggled when the nu metal-era juggernauts went their separate ways in 2006

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"In a world where we can’t have System Of A Down, this will more than do nicely." Daron Malakian and Scars On Broadway make a brilliant, bonkers comeback with Addicted To The Violence

Wild-eyed riffs, insane left-turns and lyrics blurring the surreal and poignant: Daron Malakian is at his best on the new Scars On Broadway album

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“If I was a painter, I wouldn’t tell myself,‘I can’t use these colours’”: System Of A Down guitarist Daron Malakian on how the synth leads the guitar on his new Scars on Broadway album – and why he doesn’t stick to one style

Addicted To The Violence drops on Friday 18 July and finds Malakian freewheeling through his musical vocabulary

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Celebrity birthdays for the week of July 13-19

Celebrities having birthdays during the week of July 13-19 include actor Priyanka Chopra Jonas, singer Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons and actor Vincent Pastore from “The Sopranos.”

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"Korn got ripped off a lot." Shavo Odadjian on nu metal vs deathcore, weird lyrics and whether a new System Of A Down album can live up to their legacy

Shavo Odadjian is back in the metal world after 20 years with Seven Hours After Violet - but how will he fare against reader questions?

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"What the **** are you saying, bro?!" System Of A Down's Shavo Odadjian on the Serj Tankian lyrics that confused him the most

Even System Of A Down's own bassist has raised his eyebrows at some of Serj's unusual lyrics

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"This is not a war zone...this is a System Of A Down concert!" Have you seen this crazy footage from System Of A Down's South American tour?!

Flares, arena-sized circle pits and some of the most passionate singalongs you will ever hear

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“This is not a war zone, this is not a riot, this is a System Of A Down concert in Brazil!”: Aerial footage of Sao Paulo System mega-gig goes viral

It was all captured by drone

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"System Of A Down made me feel like I belonged in the metal scene." Lowen's Nina Saeidi: 10 records that changed my life

Lowen vocalist Nina Saeidi picks the 10 records that changed her life

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“It’s radical. It’s like magic. I get chills”: How Rick Rubin’s philosophy of chance led System of a Down to the first metal masterpiece of the 21st century

It’s one of the biggest streamed metal songs of all time, but what role did the hand of fate play in its origin?

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“It is ingrained with my artwork, an art piece that I had done years ago called Sunburst”: Serj Tankian and the Gibson Custom Shop team up for limited edition signature Foundations Les Paul Modern

They're only making 25 of these, each of them signed, and they come with a signed LP, signed art print, a copy of Tankian's memoir, plus VIP tickets to an upcoming System Of A Down show

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System Of A Down’s Shavo Odadjian: “I never knocked out Brent Hinds”

System Of A Down’s bassist dispels the widely circulated story that he punched Mastodon’s ex-guitarist/vocalist after an awards ceremony in 2007

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“You have to fight to be heard in metal. But you have to give them something worth fighting for!” 20 metal bassists who took heavy bass playing in new directions

Featuring metal’s leading low-enders – from old-school thrash to modern metal

What Hi-Fi?

9 of the stand-out tracks we've been enjoying in the What Hi-Fi? test rooms

Now Playing returns for its third instalment, with new bangers and some old school classics for you and your hi-fi to enjoy.

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Why System Of A Down bassist scrapped a collaboration with Korn’s Jonathan Davis: “I want him to work on this with us, not just have a part that he’s done 10 years ago and have that regurgitated”

Korn’s frontman was supposed to show up on the new album by Shavo Odadjian’s Seven Hours After Violet project but never appeared

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“I walk in and Hans has me sit down. And he goes, ‘Let’s just get down to business. I’ve been thinking about you a lot lately’”: After his spiritual awakening, Tim Henson is ready for anything – heavy Polyphia, trippy solo records and A-list film collabs

One of today’s premier guitar talents opens up on the future of Polyphia and their upcoming signature models, his debut solo record and how Machine Gun Kelly made guitar cool again…

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Watch Tom Morello cover AC/DC with Slash and System Of A Down’s Shavo Odadjian at California wildfire benefit shows

The Rage Against The Machine guitarist held two star-studded charity gigs earlier this month

What Hi-Fi?

I use this acclaimed album for testing all the time – you should use it to rock your system's world

Drop your preconceptions about certain genres and dive into a test record that you might not have considered before.

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“Sounds just like Slash, doesn't it?”: Slash joins forces with Tom Morello for a three-song cameo at LA Wildfire Relief shows – taking on MC5 and an AC/DC classic

Morello added an extra Slash to AC/DC –and recruited his guitar-slinging son, plus members of System of a Down, Måneskin, and Wu-Tang Clan for his all-star fundraiser

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“We’ve got one song with Serj from System Of A Down and we just finished a second Babymetal collab”: Polyphia are making a “heavy” new album stacked with special guests

Expect big riffs and even bigger names on the next Polyphia album

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"They take your song and put it on the radio and it ends up becoming f***ing propaganda." How Scars On Broadway's They Say helped Daron Malakian move on from System Of A Down

How Scars On Broadway helped Daron Malakian dust himself off after System Of A Down's breakup

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“It’s heavy… Lots of eight-string. We’re playing baritones, too. We’re making new guitars that don’t exist”: Polyphia’s next album is going to be brutal – and some big-name metal artists are already slated for guest appearances

Tim Henson let us in on what’s next for the boundary-smashing instrumental band – and it’s all in the name of blowing festival crowds away (and maybe, just maybe, selling more guitars)

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System of a Down 'testing the waters' with stadium shows with no firm plans for new music

'Chop Suey' rockers System of a Down have no firm plans for a new album despite their upcoming stadium shows, but they aren't ruling it out.

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