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2,020 Albums You Must Hear Before the World Ends (2020 items)
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12 years, 7 months ago at Apr 13 10:54
OK debut from this Californian band of Armenian descent, which spawned the singles `Sugar` and `Spiders`. I looked for reference points whilst trying to pin down this album (tagged `alternative metal`) and found traces of Tool, Slayer, and (most markedly) Faith No More, but SOAD undoubtedly carved their own sound, this being an imaginative and varied effort in it`s own right. In someways I conside... read more
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Description: Waaaargh! East-European death-metal in the area! System Of A Down, a collection of Los Angeles-based ex-pat Armenians with a serious fetish for beefing up the black-humoured urgency of the Dead Kennedys into a breed of music so heavy that it attracts small planets as satellites, rather elude the grace of a subtle introduction. Fortunate, then, that an introduction to them is all that you need; System Of A Down is a near-perfect example of late-1990s metal at its most ridiculous, and of course, heavy metal has always thrived on being the most absurd of all art-forms. "Suggestions", for example, encapsulates many great m ... (more)
Manufacturer: Columbia
Release date: 30 June 1998
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5099749120921
Tags: Metal (3), Hard Rock (3), Heavy Metal (3), Heavy Rock (3), Rock (2), Alternative (2), Alternative Metal (2), Alternative Rock (2), Album (2), 1998 (1), System Of A Down (1), (1)
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Music Diary from Hell (2023-2024) (450 music items)

"12.9."


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Got through - albums (59 music items)

"I dont understand even half of the shit they are doing, but sounds fun. Sugar is overrated af. Decent album"


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"10/16/18 Year: 1998 Genre: Alternative Metal Know"


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"July 5th Year: 1998 Genre: Alternative Metal / Nu Metal "


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2,020 Albums You Must Hear Before the World Ends (2020 music items)

"SYSTEM OF A DOWN (1998) SYSTEM OF A DOWN Review coming soon... FAV TRACKS: "War?"; "Spiders"; "Suggestions"; "P.L.U.C.K."; "Mind"; "Soil"; "Know"; "Suite-Pee"; "Peephole"; "Darts"; "CUBErt"; "DDevil"; "Sugar" "


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