System of a Down's 2025 is starting to get pretty crowded. The “Chop Suey!” The band announced on Monday (December 16) that they will be expanding on their recently announced North American stadium dates with a series of shows in South American stadiums.
The seven performances of Wake Up! The South American stadium tour is scheduled to kick off on April 24 in Bogotá, Colombia at the Estadio Nemésio Camacho El Campin, followed by a show in Peru's Cercado De Lima at the Estadio Nacional. The tour will continue in Chile, Argentina and Brazil, concluding with a run of three shows in Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. The concerts will be SOAD's first trip to South America since 2015. No opening acts have been announced for the South American shows.
Fans can sign up for early access to a pre-sale starting Tuesday at 10 a.m. local time (Peru at 8 a.m.), with a general sale starting at noon local time on Thursday (December 19).
The revelation came after the band announced a run of North American shows in 2025 that will kick off at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ on August 27-28 with special guests Korn, as well as two nights at Soldier Field in Chicago (August 31- September 1) with Avenged Sevenfold and a final stop at Rogers Stadium in Toronto on September 3 and 5 with Deftones.
SOAD went on hiatus in 2006, with the band members splitting up to pursue side projects before reforming in 2011 for a series of European festival dates, followed by a string of festivals and sporadic headlining gigs over the next decade. Despite experimenting with a return to the studio to work on a follow-up album to their 2005 double release, Mezmerize and Hypnotizeat the time of publication there was no information about the band's untitled sixth studio album.
See the announcement and full list of announced SOAD 2025 tour dates below.
April 24 – Bogota, CO @ Estadio Nemesio Camacho El Campin
April 27 – Lima, PE @ Estadio Nacional
April 30 – Santiago, CL @ Parque Estadio Nacional
May 3 – Buenos Aires, AR @ Estadio Velez Sarsfield
May 6 – Curitiba, BR @ Estadio Couto Pereira
May 8 – Rio de Janeiro, BR @ Estadio Nilton Santon
May 10 – Sao Paulo, BR @ Allianz Parque
August 27 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium %
August 28 – East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium %
August 31 – Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field *
September 1 – Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field *
September 3 – Toronto, ON @ Rogers Stadium ^
September 5 – Toronto, ON @ Rogers Stadium ^
% = w/ Korn, Polyphia and Wisp
* = w/ Avenged Sevenfold, Polyphia and Wisp
^ = w/ Deftones, Polyphia and Wisp
