NEWS 2020/06/14
For a brief time there, around the turn of the century, System Of A Down were one of the biggest and arguably the single most important metal band in the world. They might have been lumped in with the nu-metal set, but their politicised, idiosyncratic and frequently barking mad noise sounded like no-one else on the planet. It certainly didn’t sound like something built for mainstream consumption, but three of their five studio albums would go on to debut at Number One in the U.S. album charts as the band exploded all around the world. Although SOAD have toured sporadically over the past decade – and should have been headlining Download this weekend, of course – a much-anticipated and occasionally teased sixth album has never materialised. So that’s it. Just five albums, one of which w...