• • • • Website Members • • • • Past members System of a Down is an Armenian-American band from, formed in 1994. The band currently consists of (lead vocals, keyboards), (vocals, guitar), (bass, backing vocals), and (drums). The band achieved commercial success with the release of five studio albums, three of which debuted at number one on the.

System of a Down has been nominated for four, and their song ' won a in 2006. The band went on hiatus in 2006 and reunited in 2010; since then, they have performed live occasionally despite having not released any new material since the and albums in 2005. System of a Down sold over 40 million records worldwide, and their singles 'Aerials' and 'Hypnotize' have both reached number one on Billboard 's chart.

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] Soil (1992–94) [ ] Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian attended as children, although due to their eight-year age difference they did not meet until 1992 while working on separate projects at the same recording studio. They formed a band named Soil with Tankian on vocals and keyboards, Malakian on vocals and guitar, Dave Hakopyan (who later played in /) on bass and Domingo 'Dingo' Laranio on drums. The band hired Shavo Odadjian (another Rose and Alex Pilibos alumnus) as manager, although he eventually joined Soil as rhythm guitarist.

In 1994, after only one live show at the Roxy and one jam session recording, Hakopyan and Laranio left the band. Demo tapes and signing (1994–97) [ ] After Soil split up, Tankian, Odadjian, and Malakian formed a new band, System of a Down. The group took its name from a poem that Malakian had written titled 'Victims of a Down'. The word 'victims' was changed to 'system' because Odadjian believed that it would appeal to a much wider audience and also because the group wanted their records to be alphabetically shelved closer to their musical heroes,. Odadjian switched from guitar to bass and passed on his managerial duties to and its founder David 'Beno' Benveniste. The band recruited drummer, an old school friend of Malakian's and Odadjian's who had played with Malakian in a band called Snowblind during their teens. In early 1995, System played as 'Soil' at the Cafe Club Fais Do-Do, a nightclub in.

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Shortly after the event, System of a Down made what is known as Untitled 1995 Demo Tape, which was not commercially released but appeared on file sharing networks around the time of the band's success with about six years later. Demo Tape 2 was released in 1996. At the beginning of 1997, System of a Down recorded their final publicly released demo tape, Demo Tape 3.

In mid-1997, drummer Khachaturian left the band because of a hand injury (he subsequently co-founded The Apex Theory, which included former Soil bassist Dave Hakopyan). Khachaturian was replaced by John Dolmayan. The band's first official release of a professionally recorded song was on a collection called Hye Enk ('we're Armenian' in English), an recognition compilation, in 1997. Soon after playing at notable Hollywood clubs such as the and the band caught famed producer 's attention who asked them to keep in touch with him. Showing great interest, the group recorded Demo Tape 4 near the end of 1997. Unlike the previous demo tapes, however, Demo Tape 4 was made only to be sent to (although it has since been leaked onto the internet).