Metal Breakdown Daily is one page, every weekday: the episode on the player below and the three stories in print, so you can listen, read, or both. Today it leads with System Of A Down, who announced a fourth and final Rose Bowl show on Monday night, June 12, 2027 with Gojira opening, after the first three nights sold out inside a week: four stadium dates in Pasadena for a band that hasn’t released an album since 2005.
Then Meshuggah, whose 40th-anniversary North American run, The Forty-Year Anomaly Tour, will carry Testament and Blood Incantation, with tickets on sale Friday and the full routing imminent. And Disturbed, who said a year ago that they needed a long break and have now booked twelve arena shows across Australia, New Zealand and Asia for April and May 2027.
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Scott Penfold opens today’s Metal Breakdown Daily with the week that took System Of A Down from one Rose Bowl show to four, then Meshuggah’s anniversary bill and Disturbed’s return, and takes a side on whether four sold-out stadiums are the argument for a new System album or the argument against one. Download the free Loaded Radio App on Apple iOS and Google Play and stream the show now.
System Of A Down Add A Fourth And Final Rose Bowl Show
System Of A Down will play four nights at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena in June 2027: June 5 and 6 with Pierce The Veil and June 10 and 12 with Gojira, the fourth date announced Monday night as “the final show” the band will play at the venue this year, with tickets on sale Tuesday, October 27 at 12 p.m. PT / 3 p.m. ET.
The run came together in eight days. On October 19 the band announced a single Rose Bowl show, billed as their lone US date of 2027. On October 23 a second night was added with Pierce The Veil, followed within hours by a third with Gojira. On October 26, with all three sold out, came the fourth. The Rose Bowl holds roughly 90,000 for a concert, which puts the run somewhere north of 350,000 tickets in one metropolitan area.
For a band with five studio albums, the last of them Hypnotize in November 2005, and two standalone singles since (2020’s “Protect The Land” and “Genocidal Humanoidz,” released for Armenia), it’s a demonstration of demand nobody else in nu-metal or anywhere near it can match. The openers split the audience neatly: Pierce The Veil for the generation that found the band through streaming, and Gojira, Grammy winners who played the Paris Olympics opening ceremony from the windows of the Conciergerie, for everyone who was there for Toxicity. Whether all of this is the case for a sixth album or the case against one is The Take.
Meshuggah’s Forty-Year Anomaly Tour: Testament And Blood Incantation Confirmed
Meshuggah’s 40th-anniversary North American tour, The Forty-Year Anomaly Tour, will feature Testament as direct support and Blood Incantation opening, with general on-sale Friday, October 30 at 10 a.m. ET; the first date to surface is February 16, 2027 at the Masonic Temple in Detroit, with the full routing expected imminently.
The tour leaked before it was announced: a Reddit post surfaced the Detroit listing and the bill, and by Monday night the promoters had confirmed the outline. Alongside Detroit, two festival stops were already public: Sonic Temple in Columbus on May 13 and Milwaukee Metal Fest on May 14, both of which also carry Testament. Meshuggah formed in Umeå, Sweden in 1987; their most recent album is Immutable (2022), and the band has been teasing something for the anniversary without saying what.
The bill is the draw. Testament released Para Bellum last year and are on nearly every 2027 US festival poster. Blood Incantation’s Absolute Elsewhere (2024) was the most-debated death metal album of its year and earned them a run of dates opening for Tool. Meshuggah, meanwhile, built the rhythmic language that djent was named after and have spent four decades declining the credit. Three bands, three different arguments about what extreme metal is for, one ticket. The Detroit show will not last the weekend.
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Disturbed Take The Sickness To Australia, New Zealand And Asia
Disturbed will play twelve arena shows across New Zealand, Australia and Asia from April 22 to May 25, 2027, each with two sets, one built around their five-times-Platinum debut The Sickness and one of greatest hits; the Australia and New Zealand fan presale is Wednesday, October 28 at 12 p.m. local time, with general on-sale Friday, October 30 at 1 p.m. local.
Asia presale and on-sale times vary by venue; the band’s site has the details. The format matches the North American and European legs of The Sickness 25th Anniversary Tour, which opened in Nampa, Idaho in February 2025 and closed in Europe that autumn with Megadeth supporting. When that run ended, guitarist Dan Donegan said on Instagram Live that the band would “take quite a bit of time off next year,” adding, “We just feel like we could use a break,” and David Draiman wrote on X that “we all need a nice long break.” Their 2026 has been quiet accordingly.
The Sickness was released March 7, 2000 and has now been toured as an anniversary for longer than it was promoted as a new record. A band that has rarely played Southeast Asia taking its biggest album to Bangkok and Manila is a good use of the year off. The open question is the other one: Divisive is four years old, and bassist John Moyer has said there’s “no shortage” of new music coming. Two sets of old songs in Tokyo is a great night. A new record is what the next decade needs.
The Take: Four Rose Bowls Are The Argument Against A Sixth System Of A Down Album
The thing selling 350,000 tickets in one city is a closed catalog, five albums frozen at the moment they mattered most, and System Of A Down figured out twenty years ago that the best way to protect those songs was to stop writing new ones.
Every fan in that stadium is buying Toxicity, Chop Suey and Aerials exactly as they remember them, and System can deliver that because nothing has been added to dilute it. Scarcity is the product. No other band in heavy music could do this: Metallica would need a new record to justify four nights, Tool would need a reason, and neither would sell out in a week. System did it on a catalog that closed in 2005, and the market has agreed with them every time they’ve tested it since.
The counter-argument is the one fans make, and it’s fair. Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian are two of the most distinctive writers the genre has produced, both are still working, and the reason there’s no album is a long-documented disagreement over who writes it. The 2020 singles proved the four of them can still make something when there’s a reason to. Three hundred and fifty thousand people in one city is a reason.
But consider what a new record does to this. It gets compared to Toxicity, it loses, and the next stadium run becomes a reunion tour with an asterisk instead of a canon without one. Every legacy band that broke the seal learned the same thing: the new album doesn’t get played live, and it doesn’t get forgiven. System Of A Down are the one band who never gave anybody the chance to be disappointed. Four Rose Bowls says that was the right call. Make the fourth one count. Don’t make a sixth album.
TL;DR
- System Of A Down will play four nights at the Rose Bowl in June 2027: June 5 and 6 with Pierce The Veil, June 10 and 12 with Gojira. The first three sold out within a week; the fourth, billed as the final one, goes on sale October 27 at 12 p.m. PT. The band’s last album was Hypnotize (2005).
- Meshuggah’s 40th-anniversary North American tour, The Forty-Year Anomaly Tour, features Testament and Blood Incantation; general on-sale is Friday, October 30 at 10 a.m. ET. Detroit’s Masonic Temple (February 16) is the first date out, with Sonic Temple (May 13) and Milwaukee Metal Fest (May 14) already confirmed.
- Disturbed play twelve arenas in New Zealand, Australia and Asia from April 22 to May 25, 2027, two sets a night built around The Sickness; AU/NZ presale October 28, general on-sale October 30.
- The Take: four sold-out Rose Bowls on a catalog that closed in 2005 are the argument against a new System Of A Down album, not for one.
FAQ
When are the System Of A Down Rose Bowl shows?
System Of A Down play the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on June 5, 6, 10 and 12, 2027. Pierce The Veil open the June 5 and 6 shows and Gojira open June 10 and 12. The first three dates sold out; the fourth, announced October 26, 2026 as the band’s final show at the venue in 2027, went on sale October 27 at 12 p.m. PT.
How many Rose Bowl shows are System Of A Down playing?
Four. The band announced one show on October 19, 2026, added two more on October 23 after it sold out, and added a fourth on October 26 after all three sold out. The Rose Bowl holds roughly 90,000 for concerts, making the run more than 350,000 tickets. It is the band’s only announced US engagement of 2027.
When do Meshuggah 2027 tour tickets go on sale?
General on-sale for Meshuggah’s The Forty-Year Anomaly Tour is Friday, October 30, 2026 at 10 a.m. ET. The North American run marks the band’s 40th anniversary and features Testament as direct support and Blood Incantation opening. The first confirmed date is February 16, 2027 at the Masonic Temple in Detroit; the full schedule had not been published as of October 27.
Is Disturbed touring in 2027?
Yes. Disturbed play twelve arena shows across New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines between April 22 and May 25, 2027, each with a set built around The Sickness and a greatest-hits set. No North American or European 2027 dates have been announced. Fan presale for Australia and New Zealand is October 28 at 12 p.m. local time; general on-sale is October 30 at 1 p.m. local.
When was System Of A Down’s last album?
System Of A Down’s most recent studio album is Hypnotize, released November 22, 2005, the second half of the Mezmerize/Hypnotize pair. Since then the band has released two standalone singles, “Protect The Land” and “Genocidal Humanoidz,” in November 2020 to raise funds for Armenia and Artsakh. No new album has been announced.
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