System of a Down is back! They didn’t announce new album like we hoped for, but they will tour the United States for the first time since the 2015 Wake Up the Souls tour. The band’s most recent touring effort saw them playing live dates in Europe in 2017.
System of a Down will start their U.S. mini-tour on October 13th in San Bernardino, where they will play with Incubus backed by At The Drive-In, Clutch, Pallbearer and Skeletonwitch. Then they’ll head to Sacramento next day to play on Aftershock Festival, before shows in Phoenix, San Diego, and Las Vegas on which At The Drive-In and Skeletonwitch will serve as opening acts.
System of a Down released their last studio album in 2005, before taking a four-year-long hiatus in 2006. The band reunited in 2011 and embarked on a worldwide tour. The band has been touring ever since, but despite that, there haven’t been any indications of a new record being in the works.
System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian recently talked with the Rolling Stone magazine and said that while the band members discussed making a “possible record,” there hasn’t been anything concrete. Still, according to Tankian, that doesn’t mean there is something wrong within the band.
“That’s the funny thing,” Tankian said. “When people don’t see a record, they assume the worst about your internal relationship. But the truth is we’re actually better friends – at least I’m better friends with everyone than I’ve ever been. John’s my brother-in-law; he’s in my family. We have a great time together touring. But sometimes putting together a record, and that creative output and how things should be done, is different in four people’s heads and it doesn’t always come together. Fortunate or unfortunate, however you want to call it, that’s the truth. But touring is easy, because you’ve done all these songs. You have fun, you go out and tour, and that’s it.”
