On September 4, 2026, System of a Down released “Johnny”, their first material in six years, and is set to release their 25th anniversary album of Toxicity .
In July 2026, System of a Down announced a tour of Australia and New Zealand, supported by Faith No More . The tour is scheduled for January–February 2027.
In February 2025, Malakian gave his thoughts about making a new System of a Down album.
— Daron Malakian (2025)
In 2025, though, the band launched a tour called “Wake Up!”, with dates in Latin America for the first time in ten years and a few US and Canada shows.
In May 2024, Tankian revealed in his memoir , “Down with the System,” that back when System of a Down was on hiatus in 2005, he offered to step down and suggested the band find a new vocalist due to his back injury and disinterest in touring. Although the band…
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In 2024, the band performed two gigs: in the former case, they made their second headline appearance in a row at Sick New World on April 27;
in the latter one, they co-headlined (together with Deftones ) a standalone concert at the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco , making it the first-ever ticketed concert to take place at the venue.
On May 14 of the same year, System of a Down hosted their only live performance of 2023 as co-headliners of the Sick New World festival in Las Vegas .
In January 2023, Dolmayan claimed that Tankian “hasn’t really wanted to be in a band for a long time […] and quite frankly, we probably should have parted ways around 2006. We tried to get together multiple times to make an album, but there were certain rules set in place…
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