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System of a Down paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne during the band’s concert on Wednesday in East Rutherford, New Jersey, with a rendition of Black Sabbath’s “Snowblind.” The MetLife Stadium gig, the band’s first New York City-area concert in over a decade, also marked System of a Down’s first concert …

Ozzy Osbourne has been a constant force in System of a Down guitarist and vocalist Daron Malakian‘s life since he was around four years old, when he became fascinated with the art for Osbourne’s live album, Speak of the Devil. “I was just obsessed with it, and I idolized him,” …

Daron Malakian has strong opinions about what’s missing in heavy music today: danger and risk. “I think you have a generation of fans who are very easily offended,” he tells Rolling Stone. “Offensiveness and shock should not be taken away from rock music in general.” Those qualities are inherent in …

Julien Baker teamed up with Jasmine.4.t for a rendition of System of a Down‘s 2001 single “Toxicity” at SXSW. Baker joined the British musician and her band for a raucous take on the hard rock track during Jasmine.4.t’s set at the Austin festival. Before launching into the cover, the musician …

Eight-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close‘s resume apparently stretches far beyond the Hollywood Hills. Before Close presented the Golden Globes award for Best Picture within the drama category, the awards ceremony’s host Nikki Glaser introduced Close as “former drummer for System of a Down.” System of a Down guitarist Daron Malakian …

In a new social media post, System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian has doubled down on his criticism of Imagine Dragons. Last September, Imagine Dragons performed in Baku, Azerbaijan, in spite of calls from Tankian and other musicians to cancel the concert. Tankian’s objections stemmed from Azerbaijan’s 2020 invasion …

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Next year marks two decades since System of a Down released a new album. Although they released two new songs in 2020 to draw attention to Azerbaijan’s invasion …

T he first time Ethan Edenburg, Eric Jackowitz, and Tom McGovern hung out, they wrote a song. It was March 2022, and they were in Los Angeles, toying around with their instruments, when the conversation turned to what it would be like to have a midlife crisis while visiting Las …

Serj Tankian, frontman of hard rock band System of a Down, will release his memoir Down With the System on May 14, 2024 via Hachette Books. The musician described the tome as an “accidentally hatched philosophical memoir.” “Boom! – I wrote a new book,” Tankian wrote on X, formerly Twitter. …

Soul Glo serve up a rendition of System of a Down’s “Soil” in the Philadelphia hardcore band’s installment of the “Song That Found Me At The Right Time” series. The series, a partnership between Sounds of Saving and 988 Suicide + Crisis Lifeline, features an artist covering a track that …