The sound of protest music used to be the gentle plucking of Bob Dylan's guitar or the smooth grooves of Marvin Gaye. But at the end of the 1990s, there was a more insistent voice, screaming through a ...

Despite that, there's just too much filler throughout, and for an album that Rifkind thought was going to be the biggest of ...

Metal’s industrial-conspiracy complex was way off base, of course. So were Clear Channel, whose tacit ban failed to halt Chop ...

A new collaboration between System of a Down vocalist Serj Tankian and iconic guitar company Gibson has resulted in the launch of a new ‘Foundations’ Les Paul Modern guitar and music experience ...

If you're just sitting in your car and waiting for a new System of a Down album, you've officially been waiting for two ...

Ever since the release of their final two studio albums Mezmerize and Hypnotize back in 2005, fans have been hoping against all hope that the dudes in System of a Down could finally find common ground ...

How did one of the weirdest bands in recent memory — System of a Down — become a gigantic phenomenon with No. 1 albums? And why do fans love them so much? Here's the answer. One fan summed up the band ...

"I always did little side projects," he said about how he coped with the state of System. "I'm really good friends with RZA from Wu-Tang [Clan]. Him and I got together and made music. We have an album ...

The mystery of System of a Down doing more new music continues! The band put out two new songs to raise awareness about the ongoing attacks against Artsakh and Armenia, titled "Protect the Land" and ...

"The option has always been there for the band to move on without me." System Of A Down without vocalist Serj Tankian would certainly feel strange, but it's still a possibility. "In the end, to me ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...