Toxicity - System of a Down

7.4	Listal rating

Manufacturer : Sony
Release date : 4 September 2001
EAN : 0074646224021
UPC : 074646224021

Hard Rock (3), 2001 (1), Political (1), Metal (1), Hardcore (1), Alternative Metal (1), Alternative Rock (1), American (1), Columbia (1), Album (1), Bought 2006 (1)

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System of a Down's sophomore effort is a musically and lyrically ambitious 14-song collection that's even more left-of-center and powerful than their 1998 self-titled debut. Here the Los Angeles-bred foursome tackle everything from government ("Prison Song") to cocaine-crazed groupies ("Psycho") in a more pointed and aggressive manner than Rage Aga ... (more)

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"Toxicity" by System of a Down

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago at Feb 20 8:01

SOAD was considered one of the Nu-Metal bands of the mid 90’s. Nu-Metal being hard rock / heavy metal with rapped vocals and even samples and maybe even scratching. Well, SOAD is with the rock-metal sound, and at times the rapid fire vocals are shouted and given a rapped-like sound. But timing in the release of their first album is what really had them classified in that genre. Now these days, they are considered one of the “new wave of progressive rock” bands that are coming out. Of course, they don’t like how the media keeps changing their labels. Malakian has mentioned in interviews that SOAD is not the most original band in the world, but it may still be hard to classify the band. I would agree that it is hard to classify them. Though I tend to label bands, and do that in my...Read more

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