The single that got them the large amount of fame and accolades they receive now, Chop Suey!, is one of the most brutally beautiful metal songs I’ve, plainly, ever heard. When the album shines, it does so brilliantly.
While I was rather ticked that System had gotten popular (at that point, they had been the only band I liked that few people had known about in my area), I couldn’t deny how cool it was to see a Haitian family pull up with Chop Suey! blasting in their car.
However, strangely, Toxicity strangely became one of the most listened to bands or artists at my schools, even in the predominantly hip hop circles. In the interest of not stereotyping, I’ll say the majority of my school did not listen to metal at all. It came out when I was in 6th grade, and the middle school I attended was, to be honest, majority African American or Haitian. Toxicity was close to becoming a cultural phenomenon. We must start with not their first album, though, but the album that blew them up. So, in loving memory of the first portion of System of a Down’s career (and, fingers crossed, hopefully not their last), I have taken it upon myself to take a look back on their entire discography, and give a fairly detailed analysis on each of the bands 5 albums (essentially, however, only three distinct phases) now that we have a large scope with which to compare them. Recently, System of a Down (once again, one of my favorite bands), announced they would be disbanding for a good deal of time. They’re one of the bands that when I hear someone say “Oh they suck”, I get irrational and start blabbering incoherently about how awesome they really are. I’m something of a System of a Down fanboy.
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