The music video for System of a Down’s classic 'Chop Suey!' has surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube, making it the first metal song to hit that illustrious mark, Loudwire reports. 'Chop Suey!' joins the company of songs in the YouTube billion club that fall into the hard- or alter-rock category - Guns N’ Roses’ 'November Rain' and 'Sweet Child O’ Mine', Linkin Park’s 'In the End' and 'Numb', and Nirvana’s 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'...

System Of A Down have just come together to release their first new music in 15 years, inspired by near-war tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan. They released two new songs, 'Protect The Land' and 'Genocidal Humanoidz', the former in a more hard-rocky tone, and the latter more classic SOAD ska-metal.

A group of kids from the O’Keefe Music Foundation have released a Christian metal cover of System of a Down’s 'Chop Suey!'. The music is the same, but the lyrics are new and faith-based, like "That day on the mountain side/helpless and crucified/Arms, wide, you took up your cross and died". Singer Taylor Campbell was 8 years old when this was recorded, while a quartet of teenage musicians back her up.

System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian tweeted shortly “simply awesome” responding to a viral video of Nigerian wedding guests rocking out to the band’s 2001 hit ‘Toxicity’. The short clip features revellers headbanging and singing along to the track, to which Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello said "there's hope".