System of a Down to Make in-Store Appearance at Best Buy in Burbank on Tuesday, May 17, 2005

BURBANK, CA. (Heidi Ellen Robinson-Fitzgerald)

WHO: Platinum rock band System of a Down

WHAT: In-store appearance, signing copies of their brand-new album, "Mezmerize"

WHERE: Best Buy
1501 North Victory Place
Burbank, CA 91504
818-845-5121
Off the I-5 Freeway at N. San Fernando Blvd.

WHEN: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 - 7:00 p.m.

DETAILS: Following the just-completed nine-city "guerrilla club tour" and their controversial May 7 appearance on "Saturday Night Live," System of a Down will launch the release of their highly anticipated fourth album, "Mezmerize," with an in-store appearance at Best Buy in Burbank on Tuesday, May 17. All four members of System of a Down will sign copies of "Mezmerize" beginning at 7:00 p.m.

The multi-Platinum art-prog-rock band personally chose to do the signing at Best Buy's Burbank location as they all grew up and still live in the Valley area.
"B.Y.O.B.," the first single from "Mezmerize," is a Top 10 track at alternative and rock radio nationwide, including L.A.'s own KROQ, and the companion promo video is all over MTV, MTV2 and the Fuse Network.