System of a Down "Toxicity"

OCT 17
VALLEY VIEW CASINO CENTER
SAN DIEGO, CA

OCT 19
T-MOBILE ARENA
LAS VEGAS, NV

looks like that's all for now

it's a 5 show tour ending in a festival headline. all out west here. quick cash grab I'm sure.

Yeah, this is a surprise to me too... the last I heard, Daron was ranting that Serj wasn't into doing any new material?

wait the headline show was the sacramento show. yeah they are still beefing but maybe this will help to mend fences who knows.

acc to that Stereogum story, iirc they don't have much of an issue playing the old stuff live, all the conflict seems to be around new approaches to hypothetical new stuff.

That's a great setlist, nice to see so much from Steal This Album.

Glad they're busting out a lot of Steal This Album tunes, it's really underrated.

totally

i loooove spiders too, classic track

Wouldn't be at all bothered if they never played or mentioned Lonely Day again, however.

This band hits different these days

every System of a Down song is like—

i’m the mushroom man, i’m the mushroom man. oh ho! oh! oh! In June 2003, Amnesty International published reports of human rights abuses by the U.S. military and its coalition partners at detention centers and prisons in Iraq.[26] These inclu-

— mister cries at work (@mistermoviespod) August 12, 2021

That's good

In the wake of responses to the Woodstock 99 documentary I wanted to Tweet this:

Nu metal activated my white male rage and me and my bros got in a System of a Down mosh pit and dismantled the prison industrial complex

why is this album so good?

"Toxicity" probably is the strongest overall, "Chop Suey!" maybe the most classic, but also most classically silly, "Forest" and "Science" deserved more love. Also kind of wish the "Chop Suey!"/"Crocodile Rock" mashup was an option.

"Prison Song" was my first exposure to any discourse on that topic. But the HBO doc would never dare acknowledge anything like that and mess up their entirely logical narrative.

tbh I would pump the mushroom man sound. It sounds dope as fuck.

*song, not sound