“Wake Up” is the System of Down tour that will remain in the history of South America. Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina and Brazil were chosen for the return of the band after 10 years of absence by these lands.
Formed 31 years ago and without getting a new album 20, fever for the Armenians-state seems to grow over time. The dates sold out in record time in each country in South America and as in our country, more than 60 thousand people (in other territories with the greatest number of attendees) observed live a rock band that evokes nostalgia, anger, revelry, memories and without a doubt it became the “soundtrack” of awakening with metal and its sounds, in addition to topics such as mental health, political criticism and personal critic Mixture of loudities that only System of a Down manages to replicate.
Discography
Since their opening to the world with their homonym album in 1998 they called on the back cover referring to a state of personal consciousness: “The hand has five fingers, capable and powerful, with the ability both to destroy and create,” they said.
With “Toxicity” in 2001 they were known worldwide selling more than 15 million albums and unintentionally, they created hymns when in the world the tension was lived by the attacks on the twin towers and many (adolescents still) tried to digest and explain themselves with music that occurred and was embodied.
“Steal This Album!” A year later he became the angular piece of piracy. The theft of the album changed the original notion of the plaque and was launched with a fully blank cover and with this title in reference to a well -known counterculture book called «Steal This Book». In its theme, the conflict in Iraq, the world political panorama and the sarcasm of their music marked an evolution for those who grew up with them.
-System of a Down en Chile 2025
The duplete “mesmerize/hypnotize” in 2005 focused on even more ironic letters and with philosophy such as “dadaism.” Appealing more to the problem of mental health, more personal and reflective songs, without releasing war conflicts, genocides and political conflicts, described the last era of System of a Down and the last driving “hand” to a generation that grew with these albums sounding and awakening all kinds of intentions over and over again.
Show at the National Stadium Park
And we return to the present. 20 years later, people grow but do not forget. 9:00 p.m. and the catharsis seized the crowd in Chile. The beginning with “X”, “Deer Dance”, “Lonely Day”, the mythical “Sugar”, “Chop Suey”, “Toxicity” marked moments of a show with Daron, Serj, Shavo and John in a great present already exception of other opportunities with chemistry in the execution and their relationships between them.
With Malakian as the master of absolute ceremonies, Tankian leading this brutality and other times, performing a homily in seconds with great vocal quality. Odadjian hung on his bass showing how fundamentally it is in each song delivering the rhythmic bastion that next to Dolmayan’s frantic battery executed 33 songs in a concert without arrests.
Tears in the eyes, hands to heaven, mass choirs and a show that was enjoyed from beginning to end, marked the passage of Down and an important milestone in each of the souls that were in the National Stadium Park.
The meaning of the set for their lives was demonstrated in something that was more than a rock and metal concert. Without having a neat execution and we want them, Soy appealed to a personal and mass history with a set of very well chosen songs in which he transferred us to the soundtrack of the awakening of a whole generation.
