Kerrang! magazine to be given an exclusive sneak preview of 6 tracks set to feature o­n the forthcoming System Of A Down albums, 'Mesmerize' and 'Hypnotize.'., the songs are :
Bring Your Own Bombs, Kill Rock 'N' Roll, Question, Vicinity, Attack & Hypnotize

Recorded in Los Angeles with producer Rick Rubin, the first album, 'Mesmerize', is scheduled to be released in April, via Rubin's American Recordings, with 'Hypnotize' expected to follow in October.

Metal Edge Magazine got an interesting interview with the band from their studio, thanks for soadomized.com for writing the complete interview.

This clearly isn't a routine listening session after all--No, this is L.A.'s Armenian-American art-metal maestros System Of A Down, previewing selections from the brace of album's they'll be unleashing in the upcoming months (Mesmerize, due in April, and Hypnotize which will follow six months later)
in the Burbank, CA, studio where exhausive mixing is in progress.
 The song we're being assaulted with--aurally, mentally and stylistically--is a un-mastered version of "Cigaro."

Songwriting for what became Mesmerize and Hypnotize began a couple of years back, and System started rehearsing tghe tunes as a band at the turn of '04. 
The tracks were recorded at the Laurel Canyon home of legendary producer Rick Rubin who o­nce again co-helmed the sessions with SOAD guitarist/chief composer Daron Malakian.

System of a Down Official website has announced new Tour Dates, in Portugal, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland.

So far, System of a Down has officially announced 21 tour dates in Europ alone apart from the Big day out 8 concerts in New Zealand and Australia.

As said before, the band plans to spend the next couple years o­n the road, started already in Aukland o­n January 21st, where they kicked off  New Zealand and Australia's annual traveling festival, The Big Day Out. that before the long awaited upcoming album Hypnotize/Mesmerize in the April 24^th this year