“We heard you. We’re coming”: SOAD announce South America stadium tour

After a spot of social media teasing, System Of A Down have just announced the WAKE UP! South America tour.

Before their giant 2025 stadium dates in North America with Korn, Avenged Sevenfold and Deftones, Serj Tankian and co. will make their return to South America in April and May for seven shows. They’ll kick things off in Colombia before heading to Peru, Chile, Argentina and finally Brazil for three headliners around the country.

“Wake Up South America!” say the band. “We did. We heard you. We’re coming.”

Tickets go on sale this Thursday, December 19 at 12pm local time.

The dates are as follows:

April 2025

24 Bogotá Estadio Nemesio Camacho El Campin – Colombia
27 Lima Estadio Nacional – Peru
30 Santiago Parque Estadio Nacional – Chile

May 2025

3 Buenos Aires Estadio Velez Sarsfield – Argentina
6 Curitiba Estadio Couto Pereira – Brazil
8 Rio De Janeiro Estadion Nilton Santos – Brazil
10 Sao Paulo Allianz Parque – Brazil

In May this year, vocalist Serj told Rainn Wilson (yep, that’s Dwight Schrute from The Office) in an interview that he wasn’t interested in doing longer tours anymore.

“I love performing, but… I think when you do a long tour, it’s not just physically exhausting, but it’s artistically redundant after a while, repeating the same thing,” he explained. “That’s why we’re really enjoying doing these one-offs, they’re special events, special occasions. We can’t do them everywhere, we can’t do them all the time. But performing becomes fun again, in a way, and I had kind of lost that.

“As far as touring somewhere in the near future, possibly, I would say. I mean, I’m open to looking at stuff, but not thrilled about doing long tours at all, anywhere. Just one-offs, or maybe a handful of one-offs with dates in between.”

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