SYSTEM OF A DOWN Is Accepting Setlist Requests

SYSTEM OF A DOWN wants to know which songs you most want to hear when the reunited band hits the road later this spring. As a reward for telling SYSTEM your Top 6 setlist requests, one winner from each tour city will win a pair of tickets to his/her local show. They will also win a setlist from the show they attended, signed by all four members of the group. Click here for more information.

Participating shows:

May 10 - Edmonton, AB @ Canada Rexall Place
May 12 - Vancouver, BC @ Canada Rogers Arena
May 13 - Seattle, WA, USA @ Key Arena
May 15 - Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre
May 18 - Denver, CO @ Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
May 19 - Albuquerque, NM @ Hard Rock Casino presents The Pavilion
May 21 - San Diego, CA @ Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre
May 22 - Las Vegas, NV @ The Pearl
May 24 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Forum
May 25 - Irvine, CA @ Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
June 04 - Nürnberg, Germany @ Rock in Park
June 05 - Nürburgring, Germany @ Rock am Ring
June 06 - Paris, France @ Omnisports de Bercy
June 08 - Paris, France @ Omnisports de Bercy
June 09 - Interlaken, Switzerland @ Greenfield Festival
June 11 - Castle Donington, UK @ Download Festival
June 13 - Nickelsdorf, Austria @ Novarock
June 15 - Berlin, Germany @ Wulheide
June 17 - Gothenburg, Sweden @ Meltdown Festival
June 19 - Seinajoki, Finland @ Provinssirock
June 21 - Moscow, Russia @ Olympisky

The contest will close on April 28 at 11:59:59 EDT.

SYSTEM OF A DOWN officially announced its return on November 29, 2010, with the band confirming that it will headline or co-headline several prominent European festivals this summer.

Bassist Shavo Odadjian told The Pulse of Radio a while back that he could never envision SYSTEM OF A DOWN going away permanently. "We're brothers, man, we'll take bullets for each other," he said. "So it's like, you kind of miss each other after a while and you, one guy makes the first move, then another starts making phone calls....this is a juggernaut, man. SYSTEM OF A DOWN is my lifeline. It'll never go away. We could not make a record for 10 years — that's not gonna happen, but I'm just saying we could — and we'll come back strong."

Odadjian hinted in a 2010 interview that financial problems and creative differences led the band to take a break and prevent a permanent split.

There is no word yet on whether SYSTEM plans to record a new album.

SYSTEM OF A DOWN went on hiatus in late 2006 after touring behind its two 2005 albums, "Mezmerize" and "Hypnotize". All four members of the group expressed a desire to work on separate projects.

Singer Serj Tankian has issued two solo albums, while guitarist Daron Malakian and drummer John Dolmayan launched a short-lived band called SCARS ON BROADWAY in 2008. Odadjian worked on a project with RZA from the WU-TANG CLAN called ACHOZEN, but no music from that has surfaced.