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‘This is wild’: Florida man plays guitar during brain surgery to remove tumor

Guitarist Christian Nolen plays the Deftones and System of a Down on doctors’ instructions while undergoing awake craniotomy

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“Don’t expect them to get invited back to SNL anytime soon”: Watch System Of A Down play a sweary B.Y.O.B. on Saturday Night Live and really annoy NBC

Daron Malakian Brought His Own (F-)Bombs to a performance on America’s most famous comedy show, and System Of A Down never played there again

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The 10 best cover songs by nu metal bands

Nu metal loves a cover song. From Limp Bizkit to Alien Ant Farm, here are the 10 finest examples

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System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan tells Kanye West to “Show some class man” after the rapper posts revealing photos of his wife Bianca Censori to Instagram on her birthday

"Would you show pictures of your wife’s t*ts to your friends? Your parents?", Dolmayan argued with one commenter

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20 metal bands with no bad albums

From Tool to Cave In and Mastodon, these metal masters all boast spotless back-catalogues

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10 massive metal bands we want new albums from in 2024

From Ozzy Osbourne to Tool, a host of metal legends look ready to make 2024 a star-studded year

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System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian and Black Sabbath legend Tony Iommi have teamed up for a brand new single, Deconstruction

System Of A Down’s singer and Black Sabbath’s guitarist collaborated with Gibson CEO Cesar Gueikian to release a brand new song for charity

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An Ozzy Osbourne documentary featuring Slipknot, Slayer and System Of A Down is finally coming out “after 20 years”

We Sold Our Souls For Rock ’N’ Roll, directed by Wayne’s World’s Penelope Spheeris, has been given the green light by Sharon Osbourne after two decades on the shelf

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As a millennial metalhead, I was laughed at for loving nu metal. In 2023 it's filling festivals and influencing more young bands than ever - and I couldn't be happier about it

Nu metal was derided as silly, overblown and undeserving of recognition in the wider metal scene. Admittedly, two of those things were kinda true, but it still ruled, OK?!

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"It was a beautiful scar on the metal world." How Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn and the rest took nu metal from hated subgenre to the biggest thing on Planet Earth

Nu metal may have been shunned by metal elitists, but it took heavy music to the masses like never before, or since

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10 times nu metal gloriously gatecrashed mainstream TV

From Slipknot smashing TFI Friday to bits to Evanescence beefing with 50 Cent at the Grammys, the 2000s had it all

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“We inadvertently started an LA riot, and we didn’t even do anything." System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian on fleeing civil war in Lebanon, causing mayhem in Hollywood and becoming an unlikely metal icon

From hearing bombs drop around his childhood home to fronting one of metal's biggest ever bands, this is Serj Tankians unbelievable life story

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"I hope girls see it's OK to do what you want." How Indonesia's Voice Of Baceprot shook off religious pressure and misogyny to become one of their country's most exciting young metal bands

Their revolutionary songs have earned them approval from Tom Morello and the Indonesian equivalent of a Grammy, but Voice Of Baceprot are just getting started

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System Of A Down’s Shavo Odadjian shares snippet of new solo music

System Of A Down bassist’s impending solo album is “the heaviest” he’s ever done, he says

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"My dad listened to nu metal a lot." We spent two days in Las Vegas at the world's biggest nu metal festival, and it was an eye-opener

With headliners System Of A Down alongside new bands Turnstile, Spiritbox and Loathe, Sick New World was supposed to be the ultimate nu metal celebration. But could it live up to hype?

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"We never felt like we were in anybody's scene". How System Of A Down invaded nu metal, baited Slayer fans and created a classic debut album in 1998

System Of A Down were terrified by Kiss as kids, but by the time they released their self-titled debut they were trolling Slayer fans and invading nu metal

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‘Music lets us be the real versions of ourselves’: Indonesian Muslim metalheads Voice of Baceprot

With sturdy riffs and Rage Against the Machine-style funk bass, the young female trio have accrued millions of listeners – and are devoted to calling out violence against women

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Watch Homer Simpson singing System Of A Down's Chop Suey!

This AI-generated clip of Homer Simpson belting out System Of A Down's Chop Suey! wins the internet today

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“The drama's gonna be there, always": Serj Tankian on the turmoil that makes System Of A Down tick

Serj Tankian once opened up on the conflict at the heart of metal giants System Of A Down

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10 pop covers of metal songs you won't believe actually happened

From Lil Uzi Vert covering Chop Suey to Maroon 5 defanging a Nine Inch Nails classic, these covers will stun, embarrass and, in some cases, delight you!

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People are losing their minds over Lil Uzi Vert's bizarre cover of System Of A Down's Chop Suey

Featuring collaborations with Babymetal and Bring Me The Horizon, rapper Lil Uzi Vert's new album is indulging their love of rock music - but their cover of Chop Suey is something else

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Pianist transforms Slipknot music into classical wedding entrance songs and melts our cold black hearts

Stephen Beerkens reimagines the music of Slipknot, Sleep Token, System Of A Down, Kiss, Metallica, Iron Maiden and more as songs to walk down the aisle to, and it's perfect for metalheads in love

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Every song on System Of A Down‘s Toxicity ranked from worst to best

It’s one of the greatest metal albums ever, but that hasn’t stopped us from rearranging Toxicity’s tracklisting

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Here are Korn, Deftones and System Of A Down’s Sick New World setlists to prove that nu metal is alive and kicking in 2023

Jonathan Davis even busted out his old school purple tracksuit at the Sick New World festival in Las Vegas this weekend

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Watch 100 Gecs debut their bizarre, hyper-pop version of System Of A Down’s Toxicity

It’s Toxicity with huge beat drops and thumping bass, and we can’t tell if we love it or want to scoop out our eardrums

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