{"id":429428,"date":"2025-09-16T17:50:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/429428\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T17:50:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T17:50:23","slug":"system-of-a-down-add-second-london-show-to-2026-european-stadium-tour-with-queens-of-the-stone-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/429428\/","title":{"rendered":"System Of A Down add second London show to 2026 European stadium tour with Queens Of The Stone Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/system-of-a-down\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">System Of A Down<\/a> have announced details of a second London show on their stadium tour with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/queens-of-the-stone-age\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Queens Of The Stone Age<\/a> next year \u2013\u00a0find out the details here.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/daron-malakian-scars-on-broadway-addicted-to-the-violence-album-system-of-a-down-interview-3878421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daron Malakian tells us about his new Scars On Broadway album \u2013 and the chances of new System Of A Down<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The metal four-piece will now be playing London\u2019s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium again on July 15, two days after their first show there. Both Queens Of The Stone Age and Acid Bath, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/sludge-metal-legends-acid-bath-to-reunite-after-28-years-for-sick-new-world-festival-3803481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reformed last year after 17 years<\/a>, will again be supporting.<\/p>\n<p>The presale opens at 12pm BST tomorrow (September 17) on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.systemofadown.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the band\u2019s website<\/a>. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster-uk.tm7559.net\/c\/2862475\/431519\/7559?sharedid=NME&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.co.uk%2Fsystem-of-a-down-tickets%2Fartist%2F726146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">find tour tickets here<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n<p>System Of A Down\u2019s European tour will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/system-of-a-down-announce-uk-and-european-stadium-tour-playing-london-with-queens-of-the-stone-age-3891515\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">begin in Sweden on June 29, before the band play venues in France, Italy and Germany<\/a>. The two London dates are set to follow, with a Poland show on July 18 finishing the tour.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2nd show added in London on 15 July. Pre-sale opens for this new date tomorrow at 12pm local. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7V7kcmvKOd\">pic.twitter.com\/7V7kcmvKOd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 System Of A Down (@systemofadown) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/systemofadown\/status\/1967986173776683022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Before last week\u2019s news of new dates, they\u2019d been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/it-looks-like-system-of-a-down-are-teasing-a-uk-and-european-tour-3891289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teasing an announcement with their logo being projected onto buildings<\/a> in London, Italy and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The shows are set to be their first in Europe since 2017, when a run of 20 shows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/blogs\/festivals-blog\/download-festival-day-one-system-of-a-down-prophets-of-rage-mastodon-2086920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">included a headline slot at Download<\/a>. Their last London show was at Wembley Arena in 2015. Their reduction in touring in recent years was due both to creative frustration with the lifestyle as well as the surgery frontman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/serj-tankian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Serj Tankian<\/a> had on his back in 2021, he recently told SiriusXM\u2019s Eddie Trunk.<\/p>\n<p><b>System Of A Down\u2019s UK and European 2026 tour dates are:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>June:<\/b><b><br \/><\/b><b>29 \u2013 Sweden, Stockholm \u2013 Strawberry Arena<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>July:<\/b><b><br \/><\/b><b>2 \u2013 France, Paris \u2013 Stade De France<\/b><b><br \/><\/b><b>6 \u2013 Italy, Milan \u2013 Ippodromo Snai La Maura<\/b><b><br \/><\/b><b>8 \u2013 Germany, Berlin \u2013\u00a0 Olympiastadion<\/b><b><br \/><\/b><b>10 \u2013 Germany, D\u00fcsseldorf \u2013\u00a0 Open Air Park D\u00fcsseldorf<\/b><b><br \/><\/b><b>13 \u2013 UK, London \u2013 Tottenham Hotspur Stadium<br \/><\/b><b>15 \u2013\u00a0UK, London \u2013 Tottenham Hotspur Stadium<\/b><b><br \/><\/b><b>18 \u2013 Poland, Warsaw \u2013\u00a0 PGE Narodowy<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the band have toured almost exclusively in the US, though they did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/watch-system-of-a-down-dust-off-rarities-to-kick-off-their-south-american-tour-3859101\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit South America for their \u2018Wake Up!\u2019 stadium tour<\/a> this spring. A few weeks ago, they played some more US shows, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/watch-system-of-a-down-honour-ozzy-osbourne-with-first-snowblind-performance-in-23-years-3888532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paid tribute to Ozzy Osbourne with their first performance of \u2018Snowblind\u2019 in 23 years<\/a> in tribute to the late metal legend.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"System Of A Down have announced details of a second London show on their stadium tour with Queens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,3982,257,3981,453,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-429428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-live-music-news","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-metal","14":"tag-rock","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115215246019164448","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}