While discussions seemingly still rage on over whether or not we'll get a new System Of A Down album one day, the band put aside their creative differences to play their first shows of the year this weekend.
The Armenian-American titans performed at Columbus, Ohio's Sonic Temple Festival and Chicago, Illinois' Chicago Open Air on May 17 and 18 respectively (their first gigs since October 2018), with frontman Serj Tankian also pulling double duty and joining forces with Tom Morello onstage at Sonic Temple to perform Audioslave's Like A Stone.
Anyway, new music or not, System Of A Down's setlist on both days was typically brilliant – check it out below (courtesy of Setlist.fm):
1. Innervision (preceded by I-E-A-I-A-I-O tease intro)
2. Prison Song
3. I-E-A-I-A-I-O
4. Soldier Side – Intro
5. B.Y.O.B.
6. U-Fig
7. Violent Pornography
8. Aerials
9. Mr. Jack
10. Deer Dance
11. Dreaming (partial)
12. Needles
13. Radio/Video
14. Hypnotize
15. ATWA
16. Bounce
17. Suggestions
18. Psycho
19. Chop Suey!
20. Lost In Hollywood
21. Question!
22. Lonely Day
23. War? (partial; transitioned into Suite-Pee before bridge)
24. Suite-Pee
25. Cigaro
26. Toxicity
27. Sugar