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System of a Down is playing back to back shows in a handful of North American cities this summer, and in a new interview bassist Shavo Odadjian let fans know what they could expect from the setlists for each stadium show.
“We’ll probably change the set up drastically between each one so if you come to both shows you’ll hear different songs,” he revealed. “We’re going to play two-hour sets. We’ll go through the catalog. We’ve got 70-plus songs, but we’ll do 30 of them — maybe 27 to 30 songs — and we’ll mix and match."
“We’re going to rehearse a lot so we can know a lot and then we can switch songs up between sets all the time, not play the same thing over and over,” he added.
Last month, Odadjian admitted that this mini tour was a way for the band to “test the waters” following years of one-off shows. “The relationships were not as great as they are now. It’s just everybody wasn’t on the same page," he said. "We’ve been talking. Everything’s great, knock on wood. Everyone’s happy.”
SOAD are touring South America before their slate of North American dates. Check out their full list of tour dates below.
System of a Down 2025 Tour Dates
04/24 – Bogota, CO @ Estadio Nemesio Camacho El Campin
04/27 – Lima, PE @ Estadio Nacional
04/30 – Santiago, CL @ Parque Estadio Nacional
05/03 – Buenos Aires, AR @ Estadio Velez Sarsfield
05/06 – Curitiba, BR @ Estadio Couto Pereira
05/08 – Rio de Janeiro, BR @ Estadio Nilton Santon
05/10 – São Paulo, BR @ Allianz Parque
08/27 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium *
08/28 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium *
08/31 – Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field ^
09/01 – Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field ^
09/03 – Toronto, ON @ Rogers Stadium #
09/05 – Toronto, ON @ Rogers Stadium #
* = w/ Korn, Polyphia, and Wisp
^ = w/ Avenged Sevenfold, Polyphia, and Wisp
# = w/ Deftones, Polyphia, and Wisp