Demo Tape 2 was released in 1996.
In early 1995, System of a Down performed under the name Soil at the Cafe Club Fais Do-Do, a nightclub in Los Angeles .
Shortly after the event, System of a Down made what is known as Untitled 1995 Demo Tape , which was not commercially released, but eventually appeared on file-sharing networks around the time of the band’s success with Toxicity about six years later.
In 1994, after only one live show at the Roxy and one jam session recording, Hakopyan and Laranio left the band.
Due to their eight-year age difference, they did not meet until 1992 while working on separate projects at the same recording studio. They formed a band named Soil with Tankian on vocals and keyboards, Malakian on vocals and guitar, Dave Hakopyan (who later played in the band The Apex Theory…
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