System of a Down Reunion: Band Might Record New Music Following Wake Up the Souls Tour

The members of System of a Down look to be staging a reunion. The group announced a handful of dates last month, teasing the possibility of hitting the studio. Now, bassist Shavo Odadjian is saying the group wrote new music and that there's a good chance they'll record it soon, Madcap Music Reviews reports (via Loudwire). Any new album will be the band's follow-up to 2005's Mezmerize/Hypnotize.

"I don't have a date," he said. "We're keeping it to ourselves. We're getting back to the bullsh*t of being together."

The plan, according to Serj Tankian, is to hit the road in April for the Wake Up the Souls Tour.

"We are going to play this tour, come back and we're going to see where we are," he said. "If we have songs that work for System, if I have them and Daron [Malakian, guitar] has them. The openness is there to work together, but we haven't made any particular plans that we can announce."

The tour will be a historic outing for the band when it stops by Yerevan's Republic Square in Armenia. The homecoming gig will mark the first time SOAD performs in the country. Other dates include the Amnesia Rockfest in Canada and Rock in Rio in Brazil. The group's only scheduled concert in the United States will occur April 6 at The Forum in Inglewood, California.