Last night (September 8), System Of A Down’s name was projected onto buildings around London. Does that mean they’re finally coming back?!
Having just played some giant stadium shows in North America, it looks like System Of A Down are possibly teasing a return to the UK.
The band’s name and a partial image of the earth was projected in several London locations last night (September 8) including Curtain Road, Bermondsey Street and Upper Ground, which we’re very much hoping means they’ll be back for some long-awaited live dates.
SOAD last played the UK in 2017 when they headlined Download Festival; before that it was their incredible 2015 Wembley Arena spectacular on the Wake Up The Souls Tour, and then prior to that they played Reading & Leeds in 2013.
In May 2024, frontman Serj Tankian said that he wasn’t so keen on long tours anymore – “It’s not just physically exhausting, but it’s artistically redundant after a while, repeating the same thing…” – and instead was happy doing “one-offs, they’re special events, special occasions. We can’t do them everywhere, we can’t do them all the time. But performing becomes fun again, in a way, and I had kind of lost that.”
He added: “As far as touring somewhere in the near future, possibly, I would say. I mean, I’m open to looking at stuff, but not thrilled about doing long tours at all, anywhere. Just one-offs, or maybe a handful of one-offs with dates in between.”
Check out a pic of the Curtain Road teaser below:
