System of a Down have scaled again drastically on touring over the previous few years, with just one efficiency happening in 2023 at Las Vegas’ Sick New World Competition. Between the band and his solo initiatives, Serj Tankian has a few the reason why he would not plan on touring for some time.
The 2024 installment of Sick New World is System of a Down’s solely confirmed present subsequent yr, and in a brand new interview with Revolver, Tankian stated that it will possible be the one one they play. Even after the discharge of his personal Invocations dwell album, he would not have any plans to take the music on the highway, although he stated it is doable he’ll play at a pageant or one other different particular occasion.
The frontman praised Sick New World pageant for bringing collectively a whole lot of ’90s and 2000s bands that System of a Down have toured with up to now, and stated that they determined to pay it once more subsequent yr due to how a lot enjoyable it was.
“Once you’re doing a tour, after some time it is like Groundhog Day. You attempt to be as artistic and current to every present as you possibly can, however after the second week, you’ve got been there, completed that already,” he defined. “However when it is one present, it is truly distinctive and particular and enjoyable. Our family and friends got here out, so it turned a very cool, enjoyable occasion.”
Tankian shared that he was coping with well being points final fall on account of a again surgical procedure he’d undergone, however within the Revolver interview, he stated that his well being wasn’t the one motive touring took a again seat in his life.
“I have another issues I am coping with proper now, which can or is probably not affected by journey or touring. It wasn’t only a health-related resolution so far as chopping down on touring, but additionally a way of life resolution. Based mostly on household and imaginative and prescient,” he elaborated.
“I have been touring for 20-something years, on and off, after all. Not yearly. And it is enjoyable, it is worthwhile, it makes lots of people joyful by way of being on the market and sharing the music and [seeing] the response, and other people actually having fun with it and getting that suggestions. However after years of doing it and the journey that is concerned, it is a type of issues the place it is not the highest precedence on my checklist in life.”
The band additionally hasn’t launched any new music because the songs “Shield the Land” and “Genocidal Humanoidz” got here out in November of 2020. Not one of the members appear to suppose that they’re going to be hitting the studio to work on new materials anytime quickly, however you by no means know what the longer term holds.
The Rock + Steel Artists Who Have Offered the Most Live performance Tickets (5 Million or Extra)
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These live performance ticket totals date again to 1981, which is when Pollstar started monitoring.
Artists are listed so as of least to most tickets offered with 5 million tickets being the minimal threshold.
Solely three rock artists have offered greater than 20 million tickets!
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