System of a Down Announce 2027 Australian Stadium Tour with Faith No More

The projections were the warning. Now the stadium dates are official.

System of a Down have announced their long-awaited return to Australia, locking in three enormous stadium shows for January and February 2027 with Faith No More joining the entire run as special guests.

The tour will begin at Sydney’s Accor Stadium on Friday 22 January, move to Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium on Wednesday 27 January and finish at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium on Monday 1 February.

It confirms the coordinated campaign that appeared across Australian cities last week, when unmistakable artwork connected to both bands was projected onto buildings in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Blunt reported on the tour tease as the imagery spread, with the combination of System of a Down’s red hand and Faith No More’s early album artwork pointing towards something far larger than a one-off appearance.

That something is now official: three Australian stadium events bringing together two bands that helped redraw the boundaries of heavy music.

System of a Down Australian tour dates for 2027

When do System of a Down tickets go on sale?

General public tickets go on sale on Friday 31 July 2026, with staggered on-sale times across the three cities:

• Sydney: 10am AEST
• Melbourne: 11am
• Brisbane: 12pm

The artist presale begins on Tuesday 28 July for fans opted into the System of a Down and Faith No More mailing lists. PayPal First Access begins Wednesday 29 July through Ticketek, with a PayPal account required to purchase during that window.

Further ticket and event information is available through TEG Live.

A return Australian fans have waited 15 years to see

System of a Down have not performed in Australia since headlining Soundwave in 2012. Their final show of that run took place in Perth, meaning the opening night in Sydney will end an absence of almost 15 years.

The 2027 dates arrive after the band’s recent EU and UK summer stadium run, which included consecutive sell-outs in Paris, London and Warsaw. The Australian shows continue that stadium-scale chapter and mark the band’s first local headline tour in more than a decade.

Few heavy bands carry the same cross-generational pull. Since emerging with their self-titled debut in 1998, System of a Down have turned an intensely individual mixture of metal, punk, Armenian musical influence, political urgency and surreal humour into a body of work that remains instantly recognisable.

Albums including Toxicity, Steal This Album!, Mezmerize and Hypnotize produced songs that have continued finding new audiences long after their initial release. “Chop Suey!” alone has now passed two billion Spotify streams, a milestone that underlines how deeply the band’s early-2000s catalogue has travelled beyond its original era. The achievement placed System of a Down among a tiny group of heavy artists to reach that level on the platform.

The group have released only two new songs since 2005, but their live demand has never disappeared. Instead, every major announcement has become an event, with the scarcity of their touring schedule only intensifying the scale of each return.

Faith No More complete a genuinely historic double bill

Faith No More last performed in Australia during Soundwave 2015. Their inclusion transforms the announcement from a major System of a Down return into one of the most significant alternative-heavy touring packages Australia has hosted in years.

The San Francisco band’s collision of alternative rock, metal, funk, punk and experimental music permanently widened the vocabulary available to heavy artists. Songs including “Epic”, “Midlife Crisis”, “We Care a Lot” and “Ashes to Ashes” remain central to a catalogue whose influence can be heard across several generations of rock and metal.

The announcement also delivers on comments made by bassist Bill Gould, who recently named Australia among the territories Faith No More intended to visit as the band prepared to return to live activity in 2027. Faith No More had already placed Australia inside their comeback plans, with January or February identified as a possible starting point.

Both bands have previously been booked on the same major bills, including pandemic-disrupted US dates during the 2020 and 2021 touring cycle. Those performances did not ultimately happen with Faith No More, making the Australian stadium run an especially rare chance to see the two acts share a complete tour.

The teaser campaign nearly said it all

The announcement follows several days of increasingly direct clues. The first Brisbane projection paired imagery connected to System of a Down’s 1998 debut with artwork associated with Faith No More’s We Care a Lot. Footage circulated with “Epic” as its soundtrack before similar projections appeared elsewhere.

No dates, venues, promoter or ticketing details accompanied the campaign. Still, the decision to place both bands’ visual identities together across multiple cities made the intended conclusion difficult to ignore.

Now the scale makes sense. These are not club dates, a festival cameo or a short arena run. System of a Down and Faith No More are heading directly into three of the country’s biggest stadiums.

For Australian fans who have spent more than a decade waiting for either band to return, January 2027 will bring both back on the same stage.