System Of A Down vow to “drastically” switch up setlists on 2025 tour

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System Of A Down have vowed to “drastically” switch up the setlists for their upcoming 2025 tour.Last December, System Of A Down announced their longest stretch of tour dates in years as they take over South America in April and May, and North America in August and September.The dates – all of which are sold out – will mark the first time since 2017 that the band are performing back-to-back shows for an extended period of time, having only played one or two shows a year in recent times.Bassist Shavo Odadjian previously said that these shows are meant 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. We’ve been talking. Everything’s great, knock on wood. Everyone’s happy,” he told SiriusXM’s Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk in January.Now, in a new interview with SNSMix.com, Odadjian says that the back-to-back shows will present different setlists on each night.“We’ll probably change the set up drastically between each one so if you come to both shows you’ll hear different songs,” Odadjian said.“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.” Watch Odadjian talk about the upcoming System Of A Down shows below (skip to 28:28).As for what the tour might mean for new music, Odadjian clarified in January that nothing’s set in stone per Blabbermouth: “I can’t promise.