The second date of System Of Down‘s planned 2025 touring took place last night, April 27th, at the Estadio Nacional in Lima, Peru. Despite digging deep into their catalog during the opening night of the tour last week in Bogota, Colombia, the Armenian-American nü-metal superstars had a few more tricks up their sleeves for this latest 34-song set.
“36“, “Pictures” and “Highway Song” from the band’s 2002 outing “Steal This Album” all made it back to the setlist, marking their first respective performances since 2002 and 2017. “Mind” also got its first full performance since 2011 at last night’s show. If you’re curious, the full setlist for yesterday’s concert ran as follows:
“X”
“Suite-Pee”
“Prison Song”
“Aerials”
“I-E-A-I-A-I-O”
“36” (first time since 2002)
“Pictures” (first time since 2017)
“Highway Song” (first time since 2017)
“Needles”
“Deer Dance”
“Soldier Side – Intro”
“Soldier Side”
“B.Y.O.B.”
“Radio/Video”
“Dreaming” (breakdown only)
“Hypnotize”
“Peephole”
“ATWA”
“Bounce”
“Suggestions”
“Psycho”
“Chop Suey!”
“Kill Rock ‘n Roll”
“Lost In Hollywood”
“Lonely Day”
“Mind” (first time in full since 2011)
“Spiders”
“Holy Mountains”
“Forest”
“DAM”
“War?”
“Roulette”
“Toxicity”
“Sugar”
With it remains to be seen if the group have anymore deep cuts planned for their 2025 touring, their is a relative abundance of opportunities to find out ahead of them, with their most ambitious touring schedule since 2017 set to unfold as follows:
04/30 Santiago, CHL – Parque Estadio Nacional
05/03 Buenos Aires, ARG – Estadio Jose Amalfitani
05/06 Curitiba, BRA – Estadio Couto Pereira
05/08 Rio de Janeiro, BRA – Estadion Nilton Santos
05/10 Sao Paulo, BRA – Allianz Parque
05/11 Sao Paulo, BRA – Allianz Parque
05/14 Sao Paulo, BRA – Autodromo Interlagos
With Korn, Polyphia & Wisp:
08/27 New York City, NY – Metlife Stadium
08/28 New York City, NY – Metlife Stadium
With Avenged Sevenfold, Polyphia & Wisp:
08/31 Chicago, IL – Soldier Field
09/01 Chicago, IL – Soldier Field
With Deftones, Polyphia & Wisp:
09/03 Toronto, ON – Rogers Stadium
09/05 Toronto, ON – Rogers Stadium