System of a Down played two nights at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with Queens of the Stone Age and Acid Bath, their first UK shows in nine years.
System of a Down, the Armenian-American metal band whose “B.Y.O.B.” won a Grammy, played Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Monday 13 and Wednesday 15 July 2026. They were the band’s first UK shows in nine years.
Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian attended the same Armenian school as children but met only in 1992, at a recording studio. With Shavo Odadjian they formed System of a Down in Glendale, California, in 1994.
John Dolmayan joined on drums in 1997. Three of the band’s five studio albums debuted at number one in the US, and it has released no new album since Mezmerize and Hypnotize in 2005.
It was also their first London show in ten years. On the first night they opened with “Soldier Side” and closed with “Toxicity”, as circle pits formed across the floor.
Queens of the Stone Age, Josh Homme’s band from Palm Desert, California, and Acid Bath, a Louisiana sludge metal band that reunited in 2024, supported.