System of a Down Announces 2025 Tour Dates

SYSTEM OF A DOWN has announced three massive stadium events featuring DEFTONES, AVENGED SEVENFOLD and KORN. Produced by Live Nation, the performances will take place at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on August 28 with KORN; Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois on August 31 with AVENGED SEVENFOLD; and conclude at Rogers Stadium in Toronto, Ontario on September 3 with DEFTONES. Special guests POLYPHIA and WISP will open for all three shows.

Tickets will be available starting with an artist presale beginning on Wednesday, December 11. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on-sale beginning on Friday, December 13 at 12 p.m. local time at LiveNation.com.

In a recent interview with São Paulo, Brazil's 89 FM A Rádio Rock radio station, SYSTEM OF A DOWN drummer John Dolmayan and bassist Shavarsh "Shavo" Odadjian once again spoke about the possibility of the band one day making a follow-up to its "Mezmerize" and "Hypnotize" LPs, which came out in 2005. The Serj Tankian-fronted outfit has toured intermittently since ending its hiatus in 2011 but has yet to record any new music. John said: "I wouldn't count on a SYSTEM OF A DOWN album anytime soon. It's very unlikely that it will happen, but if it does happen, it'll be because it's organic and the four of us just decide one day that, okay, we don't care about what happened in the past. We don't care if we had differences, either artistically or emotionally. We're just gonna get together and do it, and it'll be something that happens spontaneously. Because if we try to plan it, the anxiety involved with that will be too much. It'll splinter the band too much."

Shavo chimed in: "It's been built up too much. The time that has passed is so long, so much that I feel like if it were to happen, like [John] said, it would have to happen without thinking: 'Let's do it.' We go in, we don't announce it, we don't talk about it, we do it, and then you hear it without a big news about it. It's the only way."

John added: "We do have songs that we worked on several years ago, and they're pretty incredible."

Shavo said: "We have it. No one else has it. It's not recorded."

System of a Down Announces 2025 tour dates:

August 28, 2025 - New York City, NY (MetLife Stadium)

August 31, 2025 - Chicago, Illinois (Soldier Field)

September 3, 2025 - Toronto, Ontario (Rogers Stadium)