GRAMMY Award-winning rock icons System Of A Down are celebrating the 25th anniversary of Toxicity with a week-long exhibition at Beyond The Streets in Los Angeles, which opened on Tuesday, October 13, and offers free entry through October 18th, 2026, inviting fans to step inside the immersive world of an album that has become a defining pillar of modern rock. Continue reading
American Head Charge’s vocalist and co-founder Cameron Heacock has been profiled on the award winning YouTube channel/photobook series Soft White Underbelly about his curent situation, homeless and dealing with drug additiction on skid row in Downtown Los Angeles. The interview is a harrowing glimpse into his life after music, as well as his entire life story and the career of AHC, once rising rock stars and proteges of System of A Down and their first producer, Rick Rubin. The band had as many tragedies as they did triumphs, releasing four albums, and EP and a DVD from 1999, including 2001’s The War of Art (American Recordings) and 2005 The Feeding (DRT Entertainment) with the hit singles “Loyalty” and “Cowards” – the entrance music for former UFC champion Chuck Liddell. The band has claimed they never saw a cent of royalties from this album. Their final album was Tango Umbrella for Napalm Records in 2016. They performed on Ozzfest 2001, and would open for SOAD, Slayer, Slipknot, Marylin Manson, Kittie, Muidvayne, Life of Agony, Biohazard, and many more. But the band had as many lows with several breakups, reformations, and drug rehab stints, the death of former guitarist Bryan Ottosen on tour in 2005, and the death of bassist and co-founder Chad Hanks in 2017 of a terminal illness. Continue reading
Sick New World has begun teasing a return in 2026, with visuals appearing at System of a Down’s recent stadium shows in New Jersey, Chicago, and Toronto! Coincidentally, all of the second headliners for the SOAD shows (Korn, Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones) have either co-headlined SNW, have ties to it. In addition, the SNW website has been updated with a new callout to sign up for their mailing list. Sick New World was canceled in 2025 due to unforeseen circumstances. Read our review of the first SNW here. In terms of potential 2026 headliners, SOAD, and 2025’s co-headliner of the canceled fest, Metallica, could both do the festival on a similar weekend to past festivals ahead of their summer 2026 tour dates in Europe. We’ll continue to track this story as it develops.