Helium) on bass and Domingo "Dingo" Laranio on drums. They formed a band named Soil with Tankian on vocals and keyboards, Malakian on vocals and guitar, Dave Hakopyan (who later played in The Apex Theory/ Mt. However, due to their eight-year age difference they did not meet until 1992 while working on separate projects at the same recording studio. Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian attended Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School as children. The band has sold over 12 million records worldwide, while two of their singles, " Aerials" and " Hypnotize", reached number one on Billboard 's Alternative Songs chart.Īll members of System of a Down are of Armenian descent, being born to Armenian immigrants or being immigrants themselves. Other than two new songs in 2020 (" Protect the Land" and " Genocidal Humanoidz"), System of a Down has not released a full-length record since the Mezmerize and Hypnotize albums in 2005. The band went on hiatus in 2006 and reunited in 2010.
System of a Down has been nominated for four Grammy Awards, and their song " B.Y.O.B." won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2006. The band achieved commercial success with the release of five studio albums, three of which debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200.
Since 1997, the band has consisted of Serj Tankian (lead vocals, keyboards) Daron Malakian (guitar, vocals) Shavo Odadjian (bass, backing vocals) and John Dolmayan (drums), who replaced original drummer Andy Khachaturian. System of a Down (also known as SOAD or simply System) is an American heavy metal band formed in Glendale, California, in 1994.
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