The latter received a Grammy nomination in 1997 for Best Metal Performance
After the split, Tankian, Odadjian and Malakian formed System of a Down, named after a poem Malakian wrote called Victims of a Down (which was later featured on the back-side of the band-to-be’s self-titled debut ). The band recruited drummer Ontronik “Andy” Khachaturian, an old school friend of Malakian, and…
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The release of their video 3 Watch It Go earned them a 1997 Metal Edge Readers’ Choice Award, when it was voted “Best Video Cassette”.
A promotional disc was released in 1997 to promote both the band and the Life Is Peachy Tour featuring Incubus and the Urge and included three live tracks.
Work started on the next album, and 1997 saw the release of Somewhere Out in Space , which marked the beginning of the band’s thematic concentration on space. The album featured the hit “Valley of the Kings” and entered in the charts of many European countries. After two years of…
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Compounding the disappointing sales of the album were issues that plagued the band on the subsequent tour. Less than one month into the Hear in the Now Frontier tour, Tate became seriously ill and the band was forced to cancel concert dates for the first time. In an even bigger…
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Manson also appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone , who awarded the band their ‘Best New Artist’ accolade in 1997.
At the beginning of 1997, System of a Down recorded their final publicly released demo tape, Demo Tape 3 .
Also in 1997, Pantera played on the mainstage of Ozzfest alongside Ozzy Osbourne , Black Sabbath , Marilyn Manson , Type O Negative , Fear Factory , Machine Head , and Powerman 5000 .
Korn gained more popularity after co-headlining the Lollapalooza summer tour festival in 1997 with Tool