The sound of protest music used to be the gentle plucking of Bob Dylan's guitar or the smooth grooves of Marvin Gaye. But at the end of the 1990s, there was a more insistent voice, screaming through a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a music journalist from New York City, living in Nashville. In Serj Tankian’s new memoir, Down With The System (out now), the ...

Ever since the release of their final two studio albums Mezmerize and Hypnotize back in 2005, fans have been hoping against all hope that the dudes in System of a Down could finally find common ground ...

Fans of System of a Down desperately hoping the Armenian American alt-metal band will one day release a full-length follow-up to their chart-topping 2005 companion albums “Mezmerize” and “Hypnotize” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Picture the scene. It's November 22, 2005. One of the biggest bands in metal are releasing their fifth studio album: the second ...

It's been some time since System of a Down has released new music, with their last singles, "Protect the Land" and "GenocidalHumanoidz", in 2020. But fans won't have to wait long to hear the band's ...

When it comes to System of a Down, the conversation lately usually revolves around differences between members and how vocalist Serj Tankian seemingly really wants to quit the band but is comfortable ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. When the band reconvened in 2010, Tankian proposed a four ...

System of a Down's attempt at writing a new album between 2016 and 2018 ended up with the group shutting down sessions amid creative differences, but in a new interview with Q With Tom Power on Canada ...

No matter how long I’ve known it to be true, it never ceases to amaze me that a band as deeply strange and abrasive as System Of A Down ever infiltrated the mainstream as much as they did in the early ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...