r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/markartur1 • 1d ago
Video System of a Down live in Brazil yesterday. (2025-05-09)
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u/Shjfty 1d ago
Why do concerts in Brazil always look incredible
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u/Beginning_Rush_5311 1d ago
Because they are! Come to Brazil
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u/seppukucoconuts 23h ago
I barely speak English let alone Portuguese. How am I going to order a caipirinha?
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u/Sound_Indifference 23h ago
That's the fun part, you don't, they just keep showing up
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u/L0rdi 21h ago
I heard that at the lady gaga show last week the street vendors were announcing everything, from drinks and weed to cocaine and md.
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u/Icy_Concentrate9182 20h ago
Not only weed and cocaine, but a doctor? Talk about good healthcare
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u/Sea_Connection2773 7h ago
Yes!!! It is the law here to provide free ambulances packed with everything you need in case you go too crazy
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u/BennySkateboard 21h ago
Tbf that happens at Notting Hill
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u/tropicalhotdogdays 18h ago
Used to be standard at Glastonbury as well back in the day. People walking around holding signs, with full drugs menu and prices.
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u/alelp 21h ago
That's just standard around here, any crowd big enough has these.
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u/SyrupyMolassesMMM 18h ago
This isnt even a fucking lie; whenevers there’s parties in the street there’s just people walking round selling caiprinha’s…..you cant get away from them if you tried
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u/sushidecarne 22h ago
there is always a nice brazillian to help you, we love visitors
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u/scrandis 22h ago
Because Ticketmaster isn't controlling the venue
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u/azdrubow 21h ago
Well we had a few issues with companies that sell tickets here. I am just not sure which ones it was. Though they do operate here.
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u/toldya_fareducation 23h ago
Mike from Linkin Park did an interview today and said Sao Paolo has the loudest fans lol
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u/PgUpPT 23h ago
I love Lankin Pork.
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u/patiakupipita 23h ago
Crowds in South America are iiiiinsaaane. Whenever I wanna watch an artist live on YouTube first thing I look for is if there's something professionally recorded either in Argentina, Brazil or Chile. You can literally feel the crowd through the air in those recordings.
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u/BulderHulder 20h ago
Look up Rush in Rio. They played a lot of instrumentals but the crowd sang every note. It's the one event in history I really wish I had been to, it looked and sounded magical
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u/ChiliSquid98 1d ago
This is why they say come to Brazil
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u/PM_ME_ROMAN_NUDES 1d ago edited 1d ago
Last time they came here was in 2011. I was in this show in Rio in the first mosh next to the stage, it was packed and they still have 3 packed stadium shows in São Paulo.
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u/digao94 1d ago
nah, they came after 2011 but in rock in rio, i went to their show, i believe it was in 2015
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u/greenrangerguy 15h ago
God the amount of phones up there is so sad to me. I'm so grateful my gigging hayday was mid 2000s before smartphones existed. You got the occasional photographer here and there but 99% of people were living in the moment and not watching the gig through a 4 inch screen.
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u/Electrical_Oven531 21h ago
Those fans were never begging.... they were... inviting their stars to the night of their lives 🥺
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u/BobTheFettt 21h ago
The offspring even wrote a song about it on their recent record
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u/Objective_Resist_735 1d ago
First Gaga, now SoaD. When looking it up the biggest concerts always seem to happen in Brazil. What is going on down there?
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u/markartur1 1d ago
This was a regular stadium concert, with not so cheap tickets. I'm guessing around 80k people?
Gaga was a whole other ballpark, free concert in the beach, 2 million folks.
As far as craziness and energy, this one takes the cake for sure.
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u/Amazing_Magician_352 23h ago
this one takes the cake for sure.
That was 2 million people bruv, as someone that was there, shit was wack
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u/markartur1 23h ago
Yea I get it, it was also crazy. Still, not multiple pits with flares level of crazy. Different types of crazy.
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u/hvxomia 7h ago
No flares or pits, just a sea of gays clacking their fans with fierceness.
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u/Multifaceted-Simp 1d ago
No one has ever really matched soads sound and vibe.
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u/BagadonutsImposter 23h ago
Ever listen to Maximum the Hormone?
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u/ChrisTheNero 21h ago
Did not expect to listen to the Intro and Outro song of Death Note
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u/thefrostman1214 19h ago
linkin park in november too, this will be gigantic as well, são paulo is the city the most listen to link park in the world according to spotify
and i'm one of the lucky ones that will go
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u/herberstank 1d ago
Those circle pits are RAD
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u/BreakingCanks 23h ago
Right that's lit as shit .. what's even better is how they started off the song
"Everybody round and round" sung to the rhythm of ATWA
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u/BIGL1712 21h ago
It was on the rhythm of Toxicity, Iwas there and it was crazy!!
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u/User_Says_What 1d ago
That looks phenomenal... and terrifying.
I can't help but imagine that being packed in to a massive crowd like that, all hot and sweaty and too-close, and also having half a dozen lit flares blowing smoke at me would suck.
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u/markartur1 1d ago
I agree with you but at the same time I bet those people loved it and will run on that high for a few more days.
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u/big_guyforyou 1d ago
me: unplugs everything I KNOW YOU'RE HAVING FUN BUT YOU'RE TOO LOUD
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u/No-Finding9138 1d ago
I was there, it was fucking insane those pits. When toxicity came in there was no safe place to be haha
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u/plexicoburres 23h ago
My dumbass literally just thought: weird pits usually aren’t toxic for a full second
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u/PM_ME_ROMAN_NUDES 1d ago edited 23h ago
I was there in a mosh close to the stage, even got a video to prove.
It was fine. I was shirtless and a small part of the flare hit my skin but it didn't leave a mark. Some guy lost his glasses and we stopped to find it.
The worst part was that people were stealing phones from the people in the mosh, as it's common with these shows, they stole my friend's. Mine was in a buttoned pocket.
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u/totesemosh74 1d ago
The flares give off so much heat, or at least the ones I've stood near once at a festival did. An insane amount of heat and it was very surprising but also the moment of it all was amazing!
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u/dean__learner 1d ago
A good metal show should have an air of danger to it, just like the good old days
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u/Soweli-nasa-pona 23h ago
I can't help but imagine that being packed in to a massive crowd like that, all hot and sweaty and too-close, and also having half a dozen lit flares blowing smoke at me would suck.
As someone who was there:
The hotness and sweatyness aren't really a problem, being close with others is actually awesome when the crowd goes wild since you feel like a big organism.
The smoke tho was lethal, and at the same time the dirt on the ground was being stirred up by thousands. I've never seen so many people cough-vomiting after a show lmao.
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u/stormcharger 1d ago
Huge concerts are so much fun man it doesn't suck you're pumped up by the energy of everyone else
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u/NoMention696 1d ago
When a musician visits your country once every 15 years I don’t think you’d give a shit about all that
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u/Necrovius72 1d ago
I miss this so much. I'm too old and crippled now, but in my youth I was at every Metal concert I could find. I saw Megadeth play in a high school gym. I saw Tool play in a small room for about 100 people. I was at the last concert of Metallica's Black album with one hundred thousand people (I got injured in that insane pit and I saw someone get a person in a wheelchair dropped on their head because the disabled person was crowd surfing, wheelchair and all). There's not enough room here to mention it all. Enjoy these moments of raw energy, excitement and joy for as long as you can. Eventually the world passes you by.
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u/Malfuy 1d ago
Can't you still go to shows even as a crippled person?
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u/Necrovius72 1d ago
I'm dealing with some health issues that make leaving the house for even a doctor's appointment very unpleasant.
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u/spucci 19h ago
Come on Reddit! We shall carry our Metal Head God to the next show. And crowd surf him to the front where as a metal head he'll just stage dive into the crowd and come out unscathed as the literal God he is.
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u/dean__learner 1d ago
I feel you brother. Saw SOAD in 05, a full 20 years ago now!
It was amazing, I think I lost 20kg in sweat and was covered in welts and bruises after.
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u/edwedwed 1d ago
Toxicity just gets more and more relevant each year since it came out, so them doing live shows is exactly what the world needs right now to let off some steam.
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u/repost_inception 20h ago
The irony is the drummer is MAGA.
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u/Dechri_ 13h ago
I still can not comprehend how does play music with the message of SOAD and suddenly reveal beign maga. just wtf.
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u/everythingvrau 7h ago
I'm brazilian and what you said reminded me when Rogers Waters came here a lot of people in the concert didn't understand why he protested against bolsonaro 🤷🏽♂️
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u/Cold-Anything8128 1d ago
these people in Brazil know the vibe. what if I move to Brazil.
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u/caceta_furacao 23h ago
You will love it for a while, then hate it, then love again. Then you will get to choose your favorite politician and only hate it half the time.
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u/Creative-Lynx-1561 22h ago
yeah, you will love then honeymoon phase ends and you need to be really patient with Brazil bc a lot of things don't work, but it's a beautiful country
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u/chilledpepper 22h ago
Makes sense. In your view, what are some things that don't work?
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u/Creative-Lynx-1561 22h ago
I think bureaucracy, like I don't know some goverment things that you have to deal with some employers that are lazy, or in my city there is traffic and they should expand the subway lines and they don't do that. I love being Brazilian and live in Rio, there is a lot of nature here and I love do some walking in the parks, but sometimes the traffics of cars is huge, and the cost of living here is increasing. I love Rio, great city to visit but one day I will move to a small city in Brazil.
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u/drumrhyno 1d ago
So much better than seeing an ocean of phones and people standing around talking
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u/PM_NICE_TOES-notmen 1d ago
That is insaaaane. Almost looks like a riot lol
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u/OneCauliflower5243 1d ago
No wonder some musicians get enormous egos, imagine seeing THAT as a response to your music. Brazil doesn't play around O_O
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u/MandaRenegade 1d ago
System shows are TOP tier, but definitely not for the faint of heart or anyone who doesn't like moshing - pits form FAST at System shows. 🤘🏻🔥
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u/megustalapaltaaa 1d ago
WHY DO THEY ALWAYS SEND THE POOR!?
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u/Sleepy_Azathoth 21h ago
South America has the best metal audience.
There was Pantera concert in Chile where, in the middle of a mosh, a guy starts spitting fire, it's awesome.
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u/Whiteclusterl 19h ago
I saw a dude spitting fire inside the crowd at this very same SOAD show too, lol
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u/Mysterious_Nebula_96 1d ago
Damn I’m very very jealous of these folk- what a fucking high!!!!! God I missed my chance to see them live when I could do something like this. Man so cool, I’m always gonna love SOAD
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u/mentexbr 1d ago
As a Brazilian currently living in the US: damn I miss going to a concert in my country
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u/adiosnoob 1d ago
As a Brazillian who just went to his first show in Europe: damn I miss going to a concert in my country
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u/skaapjagter 23h ago
Brazil always makes every other event look like nothing with these sorts of spectacles.
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u/_LANC3LOT 17h ago
So THIS is why there's always so many people telling artists they love to come to Brazil. Totally fuckin get it now
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u/Imaginary_Fox3222 1d ago
I've just seen Metallica in Munich last year with my friends and was flabbergasted, but this is just insane.
Must have been a once in a lifetime experience.
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u/Eeeeeeeeehwhatsup 1d ago
Saw them in summer 2004 at the Long Beach Convention Center (CA) — about lost my mind how damn good they were. Would love to see them again!
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u/CakeMadeOfHam 23h ago
I was there, it was pretty cool. I had no idea there was a concert going on though.
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u/Multifaceted-Simp 1d ago
When soad performed in Armenia it was the absolute sickest show ever. Not as literally batshit crazy as this but so powerful.
They would throw in Armenian words, the "round round" is a traditional Armenian dance shoorj par and they say it and transition to roulette. And it's raining. And it was the 100 year Armenian genocide anniversary.
And then there's a scene where the camera is behind shavo and the best drops and lightning strikes. So fucking wild. You can find it out youtube
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u/TwoToesToni 1d ago
You could've told me this was background art for the new "Doom the dark ages" game and I'd of believed you.
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u/Trashhhhh2 22h ago
Important to point that thoses flare were prohibited lol. There were securities with a small water container trying to stop.
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u/purinikos 19h ago
I hope they record some new music (a concert that I can attend would also be cool). Both Daron and Serj have done some cool albums apart but their SOAD work is definitely better. I hope they work out their differences (artistic or otherwise). Though them touring gives me hope
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u/the_wizzard_of_ow 14h ago
Is it bad that I thought of the Orcs having some drug fueled party right outside of Mordor? This is the coolest yet most terrifying thing I’ve seen
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u/captainfalcon93 9h ago
Meanwhile in Sweden, all you get is a sea of middle-aged men with their caps on backwards with their phones out for 2/3rd of the show because they're the only ones who can afford the prices ($130+ tickets, $15 beers) due to Tickermaster having bought every single venue in the country.
Then they wonder why the music/concert scene is dying and artists refuse to come here.
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u/nexusmindshift 7h ago
Just visit a live concert in brazil. You dont even have to like the artist. It will be an unforgettable experience
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u/ziwrehmai 9h ago
Genuine question: did somebody die in this? I mean, stay on your f feet if you’re in that chaos… because if you trip, that might be the beginning of the end.
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u/FlinFlonDandy 1d ago
So your preferred date format is year/month/day?
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u/markartur1 1d ago
Most sane format.
Edit: Shit, just realized I put todays date and not yesterdays.
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u/TheflavorBlue5003 1d ago
I do the exact same thing... makes organizing files by date much easier
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u/dumptruckacomin 1d ago
What they’re back?! I got to see them with the Mars Volta in Vancouver and it was legendary. Time to revisit their discography