System Of A Down announce three co-headline stadium shows with Korn, Avenged Sevenfold and Deftones

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System Of A Down has announced three stadium-sized North American co-headline shows for 2025.

Nu metal mavericks will play Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on August 28 with Cereal. They will then join Avenged Sevenfold for a date at Chicago’s Soldier Field on August 31 and finish the mini-tour with a show at Rogers Stadium in Toronto with Deftones on September 3.

Support for the trilogy of concerts will come from Polyphia and Wisp. Tickets go on general sale on 13 December at 12.00 local time.

At the time of writing, the stadium concerts are the only live plans System Of A Down has for 2025. Since returning from a five-year hiatus in 2011, the Armenian-Americans have increasingly favored stacked, limited gigs like these over extensive tours, as the singer Serj Tankian explained last year during an interview with Revolver last year.

“I’ve been touring for 20-something years, off and on of course,” he said. “Not every year. And it’s fun, it’s profitable, it makes a lot of people happy in terms of being out there and sharing the music and (seeing) the reaction and people really enjoying it and getting that feedback.

“But after years of doing it and the traveling involved, it’s one of those things where it’s not the top priority on my list in life.”

Korn, on the other hand, already has a stacked program for the summer of 2025, which largely revolves around festival performances. The nu metal pioneers will headline the nearly 100,000 capacity Download festival in the UK in June.

They too May have new music out by next summer, if a recent interview with guitarist Brian “Head” Welch is to be believed. He said back in the spring that Korn is hard at work on album number 15 and that it’s “the best and heaviest Korn stuff in years”.

A new Deftones album may also be released this summer. Back in April, news broke that the follow-up to the band’s release in 2020 Ohms had been completed instrumentally, with frontman Chino Moreno recording vocals.

“I hate to put a certain kind of time frame (on the new album) because we’re not really in a rush,” Moreno said in an interview backstage at Coachella. “We want it to be great. I think that’s the most important thing. But it’s coming, and yes, it’s really good.”

Avenged Sevenfold released latest album Life is just a dream… last year and will tour Europe next summer to promote it. On the trek, the band will play their first ever dates in Greece, Slovenia and Lithuania and headline several festivals.