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"It was a beautiful scar on the metal world." How Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn and the rest took nu metal from hated subgenre to the biggest thing on Planet Earth

Nu metal may have been shunned by metal elitists, but it took heavy music to the masses like never before, or since

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10 times nu metal gloriously gatecrashed mainstream TV

From Slipknot smashing TFI Friday to bits to Evanescence beefing with 50 Cent at the Grammys, the 2000s had it all

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“We inadvertently started an LA riot, and we didn’t even do anything." System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian on fleeing civil war in Lebanon, causing mayhem in Hollywood and becoming an unlikely metal icon

From hearing bombs drop around his childhood home to fronting one of metal's biggest ever bands, this is Serj Tankians unbelievable life story

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"I hope girls see it's OK to do what you want." How Indonesia's Voice Of Baceprot shook off religious pressure and misogyny to become one of their country's most exciting young metal bands

Their revolutionary songs have earned them approval from Tom Morello and the Indonesian equivalent of a Grammy, but Voice Of Baceprot are just getting started

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System Of A Down’s Shavo Odadjian shares snippet of new solo music

System Of A Down bassist’s impending solo album is “the heaviest” he’s ever done, he says

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"My dad listened to nu metal a lot." We spent two days in Las Vegas at the world's biggest nu metal festival, and it was an eye-opener

With headliners System Of A Down alongside new bands Turnstile, Spiritbox and Loathe, Sick New World was supposed to be the ultimate nu metal celebration. But could it live up to hype?

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"We never felt like we were in anybody's scene". How System Of A Down invaded nu metal, baited Slayer fans and created a classic debut album in 1998

System Of A Down were terrified by Kiss as kids, but by the time they released their self-titled debut they were trolling Slayer fans and invading nu metal

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‘Music lets us be the real versions of ourselves’: Indonesian Muslim metalheads Voice of Baceprot

With sturdy riffs and Rage Against the Machine-style funk bass, the young female trio have accrued millions of listeners – and are devoted to calling out violence against women

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Watch Homer Simpson singing System Of A Down's Chop Suey!

This AI-generated clip of Homer Simpson belting out System Of A Down's Chop Suey! wins the internet today

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“The drama's gonna be there, always": Serj Tankian on the turmoil that makes System Of A Down tick

Serj Tankian once opened up on the conflict at the heart of metal giants System Of A Down

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10 pop covers of metal songs you won't believe actually happened

From Lil Uzi Vert covering Chop Suey to Maroon 5 defanging a Nine Inch Nails classic, these covers will stun, embarrass and, in some cases, delight you!

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People are losing their minds over Lil Uzi Vert's bizarre cover of System Of A Down's Chop Suey

Featuring collaborations with Babymetal and Bring Me The Horizon, rapper Lil Uzi Vert's new album is indulging their love of rock music - but their cover of Chop Suey is something else

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Pianist transforms Slipknot music into classical wedding entrance songs and melts our cold black hearts

Stephen Beerkens reimagines the music of Slipknot, Sleep Token, System Of A Down, Kiss, Metallica, Iron Maiden and more as songs to walk down the aisle to, and it's perfect for metalheads in love

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Every song on System Of A Down‘s Toxicity ranked from worst to best

It’s one of the greatest metal albums ever, but that hasn’t stopped us from rearranging Toxicity’s tracklisting

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Here are Korn, Deftones and System Of A Down’s Sick New World setlists to prove that nu metal is alive and kicking in 2023

Jonathan Davis even busted out his old school purple tracksuit at the Sick New World festival in Las Vegas this weekend

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Watch 100 Gecs debut their bizarre, hyper-pop version of System Of A Down’s Toxicity

It’s Toxicity with huge beat drops and thumping bass, and we can’t tell if we love it or want to scoop out our eardrums

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10 completely bonkers guest spots from metal legends on non-metal songs

From Ozzy rapping and Rob Zombie collabing with P Diddy to Serj Tankian teaming with Benny Benassi, these are some appearances from metal icons we were NOT expecting

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The 10 most viewed System Of A Down videos on YouTube

System Of A Down's videos and audio clips have been streamed 4.7 billion times on YouTube alone. But which song is responsible for a quarter of that number?

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The Orange County Register

System of a Down’s Serj Tankian mixes music and painting in a new art exhibition

ANAHEIM, Calif. — When people walk into Serj Tankian’s new art exhibition in La Cañada Flintridge, the Grammy award-winning singer of Glendale-based rock band System of a Down doesn’t just want them to enjoy the visual representation of his mostly abstract and mixed media paintings.

Inverse

You need to play the best music game since Guitar Hero ASAP

'Metal: Hellsinger' is a fascinating blend of FPS and music-rhythm mechanics, culminating in the most hellacious game of 2022.

The Guardian - UK

Metal: Hellsinger – where video games and heavy-metal music collide

With a blistering bespoke soundtrack, and featuring artists such as System of a Down’s Serj Tankian, this shooter is a metalhead’s fever dream

Benzinga

System Of Down's Shavo Odadjian Launches Four New 22Red Concentrates On 'Go Skate Day'

Shavo Odadjian, bassist of System of a Down, celebrated the launch of his four new 22Red concentrates — and #GoSkateDay, by skating on The Churchill in Phoenix,

Benzinga

EXCLUSIVE: Why Machine Head's Logan Mader And SOAD's Shavo Odadjian Love Weed And What They're Doing About It

By Nicolás José Rodríguez and Javier Hasse.

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