System Of A Down performed two back-to-back sold-out nights at MetLife Stadium, returning to the NYC area for the first time in over a decade. The band played almost the entire Toxicity album along with favorites from their other records, prompting tens of thousands to sing along to both mainstream hits and more abrasive, unusual tracks. Neither of the two songs released in 2020 were performed, but the band revived their Black Sabbath cover "Snowblind" after its first performance in 23 years. The scale of the shows underscored the band’s enduring popularity and rarity of large-scale appearances.
No matter how long I've known it to be true, it never ceases to amaze me that a band as deeply strange and abrasive as System Of A Down ever infiltrated the mainstream as much as they did in the early 2000s. Culturally, "Chop Suey!" is closer to "Mr. Brightside" than it is to most metal songs, and that is still a wild concept to digest.
But here they were, back in the NYC-area for the first time in over a decade, playing back-to-back sold-out nights in the area's largest venue, MetLife Stadium, a venue that holds exponentially more people than the one SOAD last played here ( Jones Beach in 2012 with Deftones as part of SOAD's first tour since returning from hiatus), and it all felt just a little bit unbelievable.
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