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Business Insider
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Business Insider
How to get System of a Down tour tickets: New Jersey, Chicago, and Toronto
System of a Down will be going on tour for the first time since their Wake Up the Souls world tour in 2015, so if you were worried you'd missed your chance to see the band live, now is your opportunity. This fall, their stadium tour will bring them to three cities across North America, with two concerts in each city, and I've broken down how to get System of a Down tickets below. The band featuring Serj Tankian (lead vocals, keyboards), Daron Malakian (guitar, vocals), Shavo Odadjian (bass, backing vocals), and John Dolmayan (drums) will start at Metlife Stadium in New Jersey August 27 and 28 before they travel to Chicago's Soldier Field for their concerts on August 21 and September 1. The tour will come to a close in Toronto at the Rogers Stadium for the shows on September 3 and 5. The Armenian-American heavy metal band was formed in Glendale, California, in 1994. Over 7 years between 1998 and 2005, the band released five total albums, and no additional albums have been released since the final two, Mezmerize and Hypnotize. The band went on hiatus a year later before getting back together in 2010. In November 2020, in response to the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, System of a Down released their first songs in 15 years, "Protect the Land" and "Genocidal Humanoidz". If you're looking for how to get tickets to System of the Down's 2025 stadium tour, then we've got you covered. Here's our breakdown of the band's 2025 tour schedule, purchasing details, and price comparisons between resale and original tickets. You can also browse concert and ticket specifics at your convenience on StubHub and Vivid Seats. System of a Down's 2025 tour schedule System of a Down will be hitting three cities for two days each for their 2025 stadium tour. The tour starts in New Jersey for the August 26 and 27 shows, moves on to Chicago for August 31 and September 1, before concluding in Toronto for the September 3 and 5 concerts. August 27, 2025 New Jersey, NJ $111 $101 August 28, 2025 New Jersey, NJ $136 $119 August 31, 2025 Chicago, IL $188 $176 September 1, 2025 Chicago, IL $92 $84 September 3, 2025 Toronto, Canada $68 $83 September 5, 2025 Toronto, Canada $101 $119 Follow our WhatsApp channel and Instagram for more deals and buying guides. How to buy tickets for System of the Down's 2025 concert tour You can buy standard original tickets for System of the Down's 2025 stadium tour dates on Ticketmaster. However, due to the high demand, the number of remaining original tickets is limited. Tickets to System of the Down's 2025 tour can also be purchased through verified resale ticket vendors like StubHub and Vivid Seats. For tour dates with a more limited inventory of original tickets, you may find better luck with seating variety and availability on these sites. How much are tickets? Ticket prices for System of the Down's 2025 tour dates vary depending on the date, location, and demand for each show. On Ticketmaster, the cheapest available tickets range from $133 for the opener show in New Jersey on August 27 to $464 for the August 31 show in Chicago. As of writing, the full price breakdown for the cheapest original tickets on ticket master is as follows: Date City Ticketmaster prices August 27, 2025 New Jersey, NJ $133 August 28, 2025 New Jersey, NJ $469 August 31, 2025 Chicago, IL $464 September 1, 2025 Chicago, IL $138 September 3, 2025 Toronto, Canada CA$231 September 5, 2025 Toronto, Canada CA$243 The lowest-cost tickets to System of the Down's shows on StubHub range from $68 for the September 3 show in Toronto to $188 for the Chicago show on August 31. Vivid Seats has similar prices, with the least expensive tickets ranging from $83 to $176 for the same dates. Who is opening for System of a Down's tour? System of a Down will co-headline with different bands at each location and have an opener for all of the stadium tour's shows. The band will appear alongside Korn in New Jersey on August 27 and 28, Avenge Sevenfold in Chicago on August 21 and September 1, and finally Deftones in Toronto on September 3 and 5. Progressive rock band Polyphia will be opening for all six shows of the tour. Will there be international tour dates? Two of the six shows for the Stadium tour will be in Toronto at the Rogers Stadium on September 3 and 5. No additional international tour dates have been announced at this time.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
System of a Down's Daron Malakian strikes familiar, violent chords on new Scars on Broadway album
Fans of System of a Down desperately hoping the Armenian American alt-metal band will one day release a full-length follow-up to their chart-topping 2005 companion albums "Mezmerize" and "Hypnotize" can at least seek some solace in the latest offering from band co-founder Daron Malakian. "Addicted to the Violence," the third album from his solo project Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway, may lack System frontman Serj Tankian's mellifluous singing, iconoclastic rants and feral screams, but its eclectic structure, melodic earworms, fetching vocal harmonies and poignant themes are sonically and structurally similar to System of a Down — and with good reason. 'All of my songs can work for either Scars or System because they come from my style and have my signature,' Malakian says from his home in Glendale. 'When I wrote for System, I didn't bring guitar riffs to the band. Like with [System's 2002 breakthrough single] 'Aerials.' That was a complete song. I wrote it from beginning to end before I showed it to them.' Malakian — who tackled vocals, guitar and bass — assembled "Addicted to the Violence" (out Friday) during the last five years, using songs he'd written over roughly two decades. The oldest track, 'Satan Hussein,' which starts with a rapid-fire guitar line and features a serrated verse and a storming chorus, dates to the early 2000s, when System's second album, "Toxicity," was rocketing toward six-times platinum status (which it achieved nine months after release). With Scars, Malakian isn't chasing ghosts and he's not tied to a schedule. He's more interested in spontaneity than continuity, and artistry takes precedence over cohesion. None of the tracks on the band's sporadically released three albums — 2008's self-titled debut, 2018's "Dictator," and "Addicted to the Violence"— follow a linear or chronological path. Instead, each includes an eclectic variety of songs chosen almost at random. 'It's almost like I spin the wheel and wherever the arrow lands, that's where I start,' he explains. 'I end up with a bunch of songs from different periods in my life that come from different moods. It's totally selfish. Everything starts as something I write for myself and play for myself. I never listen to something I've done and say, 'Oh, everybody's gonna love this.' For me, a song is more like my new toy. At some point, I finish playing with it and I go, 'OK, I'm ready to share this with other kids now.'' Whether by happenstance or subconscious inspiration, "Addicted to the Violence" is a turbulent, inadvertently prescient album for unstable times — a barbed, off-kilter amalgam of metal, alt-rock, pop, Cali-punk, prog, Mediterranean folk, alt-country and psychedelia — sometimes within the same song. Lyrically, Malakian addresses school shootings, authoritarianism, media manipulation, infidelity, addiction and stream-of-consciousness ramblings as dizzying as an hour of random, rapid-fire channel surfing. Is writing music your way of making sense out of a nonsensical world? I like to think of it as bringing worlds together that, in other cases, may not belong together. But when they come out through me, they mutate and turn into this thing that makes sense. In that way, music is like my therapist. Even if I write a song and nobody ever hears it, it's healthy for me to make and it helps me work stuff out. When I write a song, sometimes it affects me deeply and I'll cry or I'll get hyped up and excited. It's almost like I'm communicating with somebody, but I'm not talking to anyone. It's just me in this intimate moment. Is it strange to take these personal, intimate and therapeutic moments and turn them into songs that go out for the masses to interpret and absorb? I want people to make up their own meanings for the songs, even if they're completely different than mine. I don't even like to talk about what inspired the songs because it doesn't matter. No one needs to know what I was thinking because they don't know my life. They don't know me. They know the guy on stage, but they don't know the personal struggles I've been through and they don't need to. Was there anything about "Addicted to the Violence" that you wanted to do differently than "Dictator"? Different songs on the album have synthesizer and that's a color I've never used before in System or Scars. Every painting you make shouldn't have the same colors. Sometimes I'm like, "Will that work with the rest of the songs? That color is really different." But I'm not afraid to use it. [Warning: Video includes profanity.] 'Shame Game' has a psychedelic vibe that's kinda like a hybrid of Strawberry Alarm Clock and Blue Oyster Cult, while the title track has a prog rock vibe redolent of Styx, Rush and Mars Volta. I love all that stuff. I spend more time listening to music than playing guitar. It's how I practice music. I take in these inspirations and it all comes out later when I write without me realizing it. In 2020, System released the songs 'Protect the Land' and 'Genocidal Humanoidz,' which you originally planned to use for Scars on Broadway. At that time, I hadn't recorded 'Genocidal Humanoidz' yet, but I had finished 'Protect the Land,' and my vocals on the song are the tracks I was going to use for my album. Serj just came in and sang his parts over it. Why did you offer those songs to System when every time you tried to work on an album with them after 2010, you hit a creative impasse? Because [the second Nagorno-Karabakh War] was going on in Artsakh at that time between [the Armenian breakaway state Artsakh and Azerbaijan], and we decided we needed to say something. We all got on the phone and I said, 'Hey, I got this song 'Protect the Land,' and it's about this exact topic.' So, I pulled it off the Scars record and shared it with System. You released the eponymous Scars on Broadway album in 2008, almost exactly two years after System went on a four-year hiatus. Did you form Scars out of a need to stay creative? At the time, I knew that if I wanted to keep releasing music, I needed a new outlet, so Scars was something that had to happen or I would have just been sitting around all these years and nobody would have heard from me. You played a few shows with Scars before your first album came out in 2008, but you abruptly canceled the supporting tour and only released one more Scars song before 2018. That was a really strange time. I wanted to move forward with my music, but we had worked so hard to get to the point we got to in System, and not everyone was in the same boat when it came to how we wanted to move forward. I just wasn't ready to do a tour with Scars. Was it like trying to start a new relationship after a bad breakup? I might have rushed into that second marriage too quick. I had [System drummer] John [Dolmayan] playing with me, and I think that was [a sign that] I was still holding onto System of a Down. That created a lot of anxiety. A few years later, you announced that you were working on a new Scars album and planned to release it in 2013. Why did it take until 2018 for you to put out "Dictator"? I was writing songs and thinking they were amazing, but in my head I was conflicted about where the songs were going to go. "Should I take them to Scars? Is that premature? Would System want to do something with them?" I underwent this constant struggle because Serj and I always had this creative disagreement. I finally moved past that and did the second album, but it took a while. System of a Down played nine concerts in South America this spring, and you have six stadium gigs scheduled in North America for August and September. Is there any chance a new System album will follow? I'm not so sure I even want to make another System of a Down record at this point in my life. I'm getting along with the guys really well right now. Serj and I love each other and we enjoy being onstage together. So, maybe it's best for us to keep playing concerts as System and doing our own things outside of that. The cover art for "Addicted to the Violence" — a silhouette of a woman against a blood-red background holding an oversize bullet over her head, and standing in front of a row of opium poppies — is the work of your father, Iraqi-born artist Vartan Malakian. Was he a major inspiration for you? My approach to art and everything I know about it comes from my dad, and the way we approach what we do is very similar. We both do it for ourselves. He has never promoted himself or done an art exhibition. The only things most people have seen from him are the album covers. But ever since I was born, he was doing art in the house, and he's never cared if anyone was looking at it. Do you seek his approval? No, I don't. He usually is very supportive of what I do, but my dad's a complicated guy. I admire him a lot and wish I could even be half of the artist that he is. And if he and my mom didn't move to this country, I would not have been in System of a Down. I would have ended up as a soldier during Desert Storm and the Second Gulf War. That's my alternative life. It's crazy. Have you been to Iraq? When I was 14 years old, I went there for two months to visit relatives and it was a complete culture shock. I'm a kid that grew up in Hollywood, and I went to Baghdad wearing a Metallica shirt and I was a total smart aleck. Everywhere we went, I saw pictures and statues of Saddam Hussein. I turned to my cousin and said, 'What if I walked up to one of the statues and said, 'Hey Saddam, go f— yourself?'' Just me saying that made him nervous and scared. Talking like that was seriously dangerous and I had no idea. That was a definite learning experience of what I could have been. And it inspired me later to write 'Satan Hussein.' You had a glimpse of life under an authoritarian regime. Do you have strong feelings about the Trump administration and the way the president has, at times, acted like a dictator? I don't hate the guy and I don't love the guy. I'm not on the right, I'm not on the left. There are some things both sides do that I agree with, but I don't talk about that stuff in interviews because when it comes to politics, I'm not on a team. I don't like the division in this country, and I think if you're too far right or you're too far left, you end up in the same place. Is "Addicted to the Violence," and especially the song 'Killing Spree,' a commentary on political violence in our country? Not just political violence, it's all violence. 'Killing Spree' is ridiculous. It's heavy. It's dark. But if you listen to the way I sing, there is an absolutely absurd delivery, almost like I'm having fun with it. I'm not celebrating the violence, but the delivery is done the way a crazy person would celebrate it. So, it's from the viewpoint of a killer, the viewpoint of a victim, and my own viewpoint. I saw a video on social media of these kids standing around in the street, and one of them gets wiped out by the back end of a car and flies into the air. These kids are recording it and some of them are laughing like's it's funny. I don't want to say that's right or wrong, but from what I'm seeing, a lot of people have become desensitized to violence. You're releasing "Addicted to the Violence" about six weeks before the final six System of a Down dates of 2025. Have you figured out how to compartmentalize what you do with System of a Down and Scars on Broadway? There was a time that I couldn't juggle the two very well, but now I feel more confident and very comfortable with where System and Scars are. I love playing with System, and I want to do more shows with Scars. I couldn't tell you how either band will evolve. Only time will tell what happens and I'm fine with that as long as it happens in a natural way. Everything we've experienced has brought us to where we are now. And now is all we've got because the past is gone and the future isn't here yet. So, the most important thing is the present. Get notified when the biggest stories in Hollywood, culture and entertainment go live. Sign up for L.A. Times entertainment alerts. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
Scottish Sun
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scottish Sun
HUGE rock album mysteriously disappears from Spotify – and fans are furious
A HUGE rock album has mysteriously disappeared from Spotify, leaving fans furious. This heavy metal band shot to fame in the mid-nineties and are often known for their politically motivated songs. 5 Fans logging onto Spotify have been left wondering why a famous rock album has disappeared Credit: Getty 5 One of System of the Down's albums has disappeared from the streaming site Credit: Getty 5 The heavy metal group's album Toxicity is no longer available to stream Credit: Getty Fans have been left fuming after they found that System of the Down's 2001 album Toxicity is no longer on Spotify. It has completely disappeared from the music streaming site, and no reason has been given, leaving their followers scratching their heads. The album's top three songs - Chop Suey!, Toxicity, and Aerials, - are still available, but the Toxicity album artwork is not displaying next to them. Instead the trio of hits are showing under the compilation album Rock Classico. The rest of the songs from the famous album aren't on Spotify at all. Taking to Reddit to discuss, one fan said: "Yeah I don't know what's happening but it's weird!" While another added: "Where is the album gone? I need it back!" This one added: "I can't live without it! It's like oxygen for me!" ROCKING ON System of the Down were formed in California in 1994. Since 1997, the band has consisted of founding members Serj Tankian (lead vocals, keyboards), Daron Malakian (guitar, vocals), and Shavo Odadjian (bass, backing vocals). Ozzy Osbourne announces final Black Sabbath gig as band reunite for 'greatest heavy metal show ever' with HUGE line up John Dolmayan is on drums, after replacing the original drummer Andy Khachaturian. Over the years the band have had a huge amount of success. They have released five studio albums, three of which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200. System of a Down has also been nominated for four Grammy Awards. 5 Fans are furious they can't stream the album on Spotify Credit: Getty Their song B.Y.O.B. won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2006. The band went on a hiatus in 2006 but, much to their fans' delight, they reunited in 2010 Musing over the band's ongoing appeal, lead singer Tankian told The Sun last year: "I think it's a combination of our songwriting. "I think it's a combination of the fact that no matter how dead serious we might be in one song, the next song could be a hilarious, funny song, or even within the same song. "There's many moments of jest and we're laughing at ourselves because life is too short. "I think it makes us very unique and different in how we present our music and who we are. People relate to it, I guess. I don't know. You've got to ask them."
The Sun
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
HUGE rock album mysteriously disappears from Spotify – and fans are furious
A HUGE rock album has mysteriously disappeared from Spotify, leaving fans furious. This heavy metal band shot to fame in the mid-nineties and are often known for their politically motivated songs. 5 5 Fans have been left fuming after they found that System of the Down 's 2001 album Toxicity is no longer on Spotify. It has completely disappeared from the music streaming site, and no reason has been given, leaving their followers scratching their heads. The album's top three songs - Chop Suey!, Toxicity, and Aerials, - are still available, but the Toxicity album artwork is not displaying next to them. Instead the trio of hits are showing under the compilation album Rock Classico. The rest of the songs from the famous album aren't on Spotify at all. Taking to Reddit to discuss, one fan said: "Yeah I don't know what's happening but it's weird!" ROCKING ON System of the Down were formed in California in 1994. Since 1997, the band has consisted of founding members Serj Tankian (lead vocals, keyboards), Daron Malakian (guitar, vocals), and Shavo Odadjian (bass, backing vocals). Ozzy Osbourne announces final Black Sabbath gig as band reunite for 'greatest heavy metal show ever' with HUGE line up John Dolmayan is on drums, after replacing the original drummer Andy Khachaturian. Over the years the band have had a huge amount of success. They have released five studio albums, three of which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200. System of a Down has also been nominated for four Grammy Awards. 5 Their song B.Y.O.B. won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2006. The band went on a hiatus in 2006 but, much to their fans' delight, they reunited in 2010 Musing over the band's ongoing appeal, lead singer Tankian told The Sun last year: "I think it's a combination of our songwriting. "I think it's a combination of the fact that no matter how dead serious we might be in one song, the next song could be a hilarious, funny song, or even within the same song. "There's many moments of jest and we're laughing at ourselves because life is too short. "I think it makes us very unique and different in how we present our music and who we are. People relate to it, I guess. I don't know. You've got to ask them." 5
The Irish Sun
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
HUGE rock album mysteriously disappears from Spotify – and fans are furious
A HUGE rock album has mysteriously disappeared from Spotify, leaving fans furious. This heavy metal band shot to fame in the mid-nineties and are often known for their politically motivated songs. 5 Fans logging onto Spotify have been left wondering why a famous rock album has disappeared Credit: Getty 5 One of System of the Down's albums has disappeared from the streaming site Credit: Getty 5 The heavy metal group's album Toxicity is no longer available to stream Credit: Getty Fans have been left fuming after they found that It has completely disappeared from the music streaming site, and no reason has been given, leaving their followers scratching their heads. The album's top three songs - Chop Suey!, Toxicity, and Aerials, - are still available, but the Toxicity album artwork is not displaying next to them. Instead the trio of hits are showing under the compilation album Rock Classico. Read more on rock bands The rest of the songs from the famous album aren't on Spotify at all. Taking to Reddit to discuss, one fan said: "Yeah I don't know what's happening but it's weird!" While another added: "Where is the album gone? I need it back!" This one added: "I can't live without it! It's like oxygen for me!" Most read in Showbiz ROCKING ON System of the Down were formed in California in 1994. Since 1997, the band has consisted of founding members Serj Tankian (lead vocals, keyboards), Daron Malakian (guitar, vocals), and Shavo Odadjian (bass, backing vocals). Ozzy Osbourne announces final Black Sabbath gig as band reunite for 'greatest heavy metal show ever' with HUGE line up John Dolmayan is on drums, after replacing the original drummer Andy Khachaturian. Over the years the band have had a huge amount of success. They have released five studio albums, three of which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200. System of a Down has also been nominated for four Grammy Awards. 5 Fans are furious they can't stream the album on Spotify Credit: Getty Their song B.Y.O.B. won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2006. The band went on a hiatus in 2006 but, much to their fans' delight, they reunited in 2010 Musing over the band's ongoing appeal, "I think it's a combination of the fact that no matter how dead serious we might be in one song, the next song could be a hilarious, funny song, or even within the same song. "There's many moments of jest and we're laughing at ourselves because life is too short. "I think it makes us very unique and different in how we present our music and who we are. People relate to it, I guess. I don't know. You've got to ask them." 5 The iconic band have got a huge fan following Credit: Getty
