System Of A Down have announced a North American tour, currently containing 10 dates with the possibility of more. Gogol Bordello will open each show in the tour. This series of shows is the first since the band went on hiatus in 2006. The band insists they did not break up, but rumors swirled about a dis-banding. According to gibson.com, the band already have a bunch of European festival appearances scheduled for this summer. There’s no word on if the band have plans to record a new album anytime soon.

Previously, bassist Shavo Odadjian told The Pulse of Radio that he never thought the band was permanently finished. “We’re brothers, man, we’ll take bullets for each other,” he said. “So it’s like, you kind of miss each other after a while and you, one guy makes the first move, then another starts making phone calls... this is a juggernaut, man. System of a Down is my lifeline. It’ll never go away. We could not make a record for 10 years – that’s not gonna happen, but I’m just saying we could – and we’ll come back strong.”

System of a Down North American tour dates:

May 10 - Edmonton, AL - Rexall Place
May 12 - Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena
May 13 - Seattle, WA - Key Arena
May 15 - Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
May 18 - Denver, CO - Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
May 19 - Albuquerque, NM - Journal Pavilion
May 22 - Las Vegas, NV - The Pear

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