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SYSTEM OF A DOWN Contribute Over $20,000 For Genocide Awareness
Los Angeles-based multi-platinum-selling hard rock band SYSTEM OF A DOWN again confirmed their steadfast support of organizations seeking to promote genocide awareness by their recent donation to the Zoryan Institute. In the last two years, SYSTEM OF A DOWN has contributed over $20,000 to the Zoryan...July 7, 2005
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SYSTEM OF A DOWN Singer Fails In Bid To Buy New Zealand Beach Property
The New Zealand Herald is reporting that SYSTEM OF A DOWN singer Serj Tankian has failed in his bid to buy a west coast beach property and develop a recording studio. Tankian planned to pay NZD $890,000 (approximately $604,000) for the 13.6ha property at Bethells Beach but his application was refuse...July 4, 2005
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BAD ACID TRIP To Open For SYSTEM OF A DOWN, THE MARS VOLTA
Southern California's BAD ACID TRIP, one of the first signings to SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian's Serjical Strike label imprint, have been confirmed as the opening act on SYSTEM OF A DOWN's upcoming first major U.S. tour in three years. While specific dates are being confirmed and will be a...June 6, 2005
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AXIS OF JUSTICE Redesigns, Relaunches Web Site
Axis of Justice, the non-profit, grassroots, pro-social justice organization formed by Tom Morello (AUDIOSLAVE) and Serj Tankian (SYSTEM OF A DOWN),has redesigned and launched its new web site, AxisOfJustice.org. The relaunched site offers practical information to further AOJ's mission — bringing t...May 23, 2005
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SYSTEM OF A DOWN Frontman Collaborating With Ex-GUNS N' ROSES Guitarist
According to RollingStone.com, SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian has been working on a CD for Buckethead, the masked, experimental funk guitarist best known for playing in the doomed incarnation of GUNS N' ROSES. Buckethead sent Serj a handful of instrumentals, which Serj has fleshed out with a...May 21, 2005
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AXIS OF JUSTICE To Stage Anti-War Protest Prior To AUDIOSLAVE Concert
Launch Radio Networks reports: Axis Of Justice, the political and social activist group founded by AUDIOSLAVE guitarist Tom Morello and SYSTEM OF A DOWN singer Serj Tankian, will stage an anti-war protest at the corner of Wilshire and Western Boulevards in Los Angeles this Friday, May 20 at 6:00 p.m...May 19, 2005
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Mezmerize
SYSTEM OF A DOWN has done it again. With its third record (not including the "Steal This Album!" collection of leftovers from 2002),the band has created another work of thoroughly eccentric, tuneful, and heavy metallic rock that mixes a wide range of influences, adds a dash of loopy, surreal humor,...May 15, 2005
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AUDIOSLAVE Guitarist Discusses Decision To Dust Off RAGE And SOUNDGARDEN Classics
AUDIOSLAVE guitarist Tom Morello (ex-RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE) recently spoke to The News Tribune about "Out of Exile" — the follow-up to the band's self-titled debut, due May 24 — the decision to dust off old RAGE and SOUNDGARDEN tunes; and his work with Axis of Justice, the grass-roots political g...May 9, 2005
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SYSTEM OF A DOWN Announce Summer Tour
SYSTEM OF A DOWN have been confirmed to headline their first major U.S. tour in three years, it was announced today. While specific dates are being confirmed and will be announced shortly, the band will kick off a two-month trek in early August that will see them playing arenas in major and secondar...April 27, 2005
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AUDIOSLAVE Guitarist Says New Album 'Rocks More Furiously' Than Debut
AUDIOSLAVE guitarist Tom Morello has told The Flint Journal that the group's upcoming sophomore album, "Out of Exile", "rocks more furiously" than the group's self-titled debut. "The first one was about the excitement of the creative explosion of four guys who were thrilled to be writing songs toget...April 24, 2005
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SYSTEM OF A DOWN: New Album Unveiled At NYC Listening Session
Launch Radio Networks reports: SYSTEM OF A DOWN held an exclusive preview of "Mezmerize", the first half of SYSTEM OF A DOWN's new double-CD set, Wednesday night (April 13) in New York City. The listening session for the record were held at a hotel in the city's downtown Soho district. The second ha...April 14, 2005
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AXIS OF JUSTICE Celebrates Farmworkers' Victory
AUDIOSLAVE's Tom Morello and SYSTEM OF A DOWN's Serj Tankian are proud to join in the celebration of the decisive victory that the farmworkers of Immokalee, Florida (the Coalition of Immokalee Workers — CIW) have just claimed. For more than four years, the CIW has been embroiled in a boycott of Taco...March 13, 2005
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SYSTEM OF A DOWN And KROQ-FM Present 'Souls 2005' Benefit Concert
Multi-platinum-selling group SYSTEM OF A DOWN will headline "Souls, 2005", a benefit concert presented by Los Angeles radio powerhouse, KROQ-FM, and held in Los Angeles on Sunday, April 24 at the Universal Amphitheatre. All tickets for the concert will be priced at $45.00 and will go on sale at 10:0...March 8, 2005
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SYSTEM OF A DOWN To Play SOULS 2005 Benefit Concert In April?
According to SOADOnline.net, SYSTEM OF A DOWN are rumored to be planning a "Souls 2005" benefit concert on April 24 at the Universal Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. The concert will raise awareness of the World War I-era mass murders of Armenians by Turkey's Ottoman Empire, which Turkey...March 3, 2005
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SYSTEM OF A DOWN Singer Says Band Went Through Troubled Times Last Year
SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian recently spoke to Australia's Beat magazine about the group's forthcoming album "Mesmerize/Hypnotize", which is currently being mixed at a Los Angeles studio by Andy Wallace (KORN, LIMP BIZKIT, DISTURBED, SEPULTURA). Asked what prompted the idea to release a do...January 23, 2005
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