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System of a Down - System of a Down Audio CD

A fair review of the System of a Down "System of a Down" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all System of a Down reviews here, or go back to the System of a Down tabs.

Band: System of a Down Title: System of a Down Rating: Release Date: 1998-06-30 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Suite-Pee 2: Know 3: Sugar 4: Suggestions 5: Spiders 6: Ddevil 7: Soil 8: War? 9: Mind 10: Peephole 11: Cubert 12: Darts 13: P.L.U.C.K. (Politically Lying, Unholy, Cowardly Killers)

Return to Teenage Years
Now, as I return to the album, I can still get a kick out of this kick*** music. I was an avid listener of this SOAD debut back when I was in High School. Everything from Serj's energetic vocals to Daron's awesome guitar melodies really stand out. The songs "Spiders," "P. L. U. C. K. ," "Know," and of course "SUGAR" are some of my all-time favorites. Thanks, SOAD, for creating this great first album.

Grade: A.

SOAD blows your mind
A classic, easily. You must own this album!!!!! If you love metal and hate the government, buy this freakin' album.

dayum
im not usually into this kind of stuff. ive had this album for years, and i never get sick of it. . . harder stuff. but this. . . this is just plain GOOD! if you like System and youve never heard this, do yourself a HUGE favor and pick this up. NOW! imo, its their best.

Less melodic, more psychotic
It's no wonder the band immediately stood out in a genre all but known for it's generic torment. 3 1/2

A solid attack sucker punch of flavored, offbeat hardcore came with the Armenian-american groups debut combining relentless hostility, eccentrically powerful vocals, melodic transcendence, and a dash of old-world flavor to boot. Not all of the album works properly; the songs eventually tend to bleed together, at worst into a type of pummeling oddball metal gimmickry, but a distinct mark upon their craft hinted at an important career to come. .

Definitely not a typical metal band debut
System of a Down was one band than set themselves apart from the crowd--they clearly had a political leftist fury, but they had a sense of humor too. In the age of the new millenium, there were many metal bands whose metal was extremely downcast and anarchistic, but very few of them really distinguished themselves.

"Sugar," System of a Down's first single, was just plain weird. It alternates between a swing drum beat and a heavy guitar burst, and Serj is singing about oppression, but in quirky monologues about kicking his girl in the "Ooh! Baby! She's okay!" I have to admit that I really passed this single off as a cheesy 90s comedy song, but gradually I loved listening to them.

System of a Down has a Middle Eastern-style to them as well, with very characteristic chord progressions. The guitarists were incredible for making heavy metal sound far different than it ever sounded.

Whether Serj is yelping weird lyrics in "Ddevil" or screaming in "Suite-Pee," he really showed that metal had so many dimensions. In "P. L. U. C. K. " Serj Tankian shows off his maddening anger at genocide, screaming "Die! Why?!? Walk Down! Walk Down!".

And the drummer really knows how to set the band in different beat rhythms, sometimes playing in a seven beat rhythm, then switching back to four beats. He sure knows how to slide in those speedy drum rolls and offbeat rhythms.

This debut shows that System of a Down clearly makes a half-anarchist, half-hilarious lineup of songs so entertaining. Clearly System of a Down is going to be remembered for being one the craziest, but most eclectic metal bands around.

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