System Of A Down are set to embark on their biggest-ever North American stadium tour in late August and September 2025 — however followers hoping for a brand new album will as soon as once more be left disenchanted.
Throughout an look on SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk, frontman Serj Tankian addressed the way forward for System Of A Down and why a follow-up to 2005’s Mezmerize and Hypnotize nonetheless hasn’t materialized.
“Not presently,” Tankian mentioned when requested about new music. “We’re all engaged on music. Daron [Malakian] simply put out a report with Scars On Broadway, which is de facto good. I like to recommend individuals test it out. I am placing out a report of covers, collaborations and collages… However for System, it isn’t about whether or not all of us wish to make a report. It is about whether or not we see it the identical means creatively. If we do not, it isn’t price doing. If we do, then it is price doing.”
System Of A Down, who reunited in 2011 after a prolonged hiatus, have toured intermittently however launched solely two new songs in practically 20 years: “Defend The Land” and “Genocidal Humanoidz”, each in 2020. The tracks had been motivated by the battle in Artsakh, with all proceeds supporting humanitarian support in Armenia. Along with fan donations, they raised over $600,000.
Tankian defined that the rationale behind the shortage of latest materials is only inventive: “Our variations of opinion had been at all times artistic variations, which I’m proud to say. They weren’t private variations. We at all times liked and revered one another, and greater than ever now. So, that is not why we’ve not made a report. We’ve not made a report due to a imaginative and prescient distinction, and that is an inventive distinction.”
He emphasised the group’s unity offstage: “Most bands, they do not work collectively as a result of they could not like one another. In our case, that is not the case in any respect. We love one another. We’ll tour collectively, we’ll hang around, have dinner collectively, deliver the household over, get pleasure from one another. But when we do not see eye to eye on one thing, then we cannot do this challenge — interval.”
System Of A Down‘s return to stadiums comes after years of scattered competition appearances. Tankian mentioned his well being had beforehand made touring troublesome, citing again surgical procedure and restoration, however he’s now “bodily stronger” and prepared for the run.
Reflecting on the band’s latest one-off competition appearances, Tankian mentioned: “It wasn’t by design. For years, personally, I did not wanna tour in any respect. However then we did one Sick New World present in Las Vegas, and all of us had a blast. It wasn’t a tour… It was only one present — exit on a weekend, take your households and have a superb time. And that made us step again and go, ‘That is what we must be doing. If we’re gonna be doing it, that is the precise means of doing it for us.'”
Regardless of the renewed touring schedule of System Of A Down, Tankian stays agency: a brand new System Of A Down album will solely occur if the band’s imaginative and prescient aligns. “It is purely artistic,” he mentioned. “Once we really feel it is proper, we’ll do it.”
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