System of a Down Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
System of a Down, also known by the acronym SOAD and often shortened to System, is an American four-piece rock band from Southern California, formed in 1994. The band currently consists of four Armenian-Americans: Daron Malakian (vocals, guitar), Serj Tankian (lead vocals, occasional keyboards and rhythm guitar), Shavo Odadjian (bass, background vocals) and John Dolmayan (drums).The band achieved commercial success with the release of five studio albums, of which three debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. System of a Down has been nominated for four Grammy Awards, and their song "B.Y.O.B." won the Best Hard Rock Performance of 2006. The group went on hiatus in August 2006 and reunited in November 2010, embarking on a tour for the following three years. System of a Down has sold over 40 million records worldwide.
Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance, MTV Europe Music Award for Best Alternative, Kerrang! Award for Best International Live Act, Echo Award for Best International Rock/Alternative Group
Nominations
Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance, MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video, Kerrang! Award for Best Album, Kerrang! Award for Best Live Band, Kerrang! Award for Best International Band, Kerrang! Award for Best Track, Kerrang! Award for Best Video, American Music Award for Favorite Alternativ...
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Trademark
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Songs often talk about political corruption and injustices in society
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Fact
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Writing the follow-up to "Mezmerize"/"Hypnotize" and will be going back to the studio before the end of 2006 or sometime in 2007. [March 2006]
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Working on their fourth album. [January 2004]
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Announced they will be on hiatus after touring in Ozzfest this summer, but won't break up. [May 2006]
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Wrapping up a video shoot for the 1st single "BYOB" from the new album "Mezmerize". [March 2005]
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Shooting a video for "Question", the upcoming second single of Mezmerize. [2005]
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4th album "Mezmerize" released on May 17th. [May 2005]
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System of a Down went on hiatus in 2006, but have been back together since November 2010 when it was announced that they would tour in the summer of 2011.
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To date, SOAD has released five albums. Those albums are called "System of a Down" (1998), "Toxicity" (2001), "Steal This Album!" (2002), "Mezmerize" and "Hypnotize" (both 2005).
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Grammy Award winning band, bowed at no. 1 on Billboard's Top 200 chart for their hugely innovative, platinum selling record "Toxicity" in 2001; System of a Down released not 1 but 2 records in 2005, "Mesmerize" and "Hypnotize", and, remarkably, both records became number 1
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2 members of System of a Down were born in Lebanon and all are of Armenian heritage
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Bowed at no. 1 on Billboard's Top 200 chart for their hugely innovative, platinum selling record "Toxicity"
Their name comes from their idea/belief that if we don't act to change things for the better we will become less feeling and more cruel and animal like until the world is thrown into total chaos.
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Their song "Soil" is talking about a friend of Serj's from a previous band called Soil, who ended up committing suicide.
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Are active in political demonstrations.
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The members of the Grammy Award winning American band are of Armenian heritage and their songs often have political lyrics like the P.L.U.C.K. about the 1915 Armenian Genocide and the Prison Song which criticizes the prison systems; former song is featured in Ararat (2002) by Canadian-Armenian Atom Egoyan, who admired the genius Soviet-Armenian Sergei Parajanov whose political imprisonment is condemned in Mikhail Vartanov's Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992)
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Heavy Metal 2000
2000
performer: "Storaged" / producer: "Storaged"
Scream 3
2000
performer: "Spiders"
Apocalypse
1998
Video Game performer: "War?"
Strangeland
1998
"Marmalade"
The Secret Life of Pets
2016
performer: "Bounce" - as System Of A Down
Guitar Hero Live
2015
Video Game performer: "Chop Suey!"
Atop the Fourth Wall
2014
TV Series 1 episode
Dirty Cops: Ta Batsonia: A Greek Novel About Crisis
$12 Million
