Raging Guitars And Just Plain Raging

System of a Down cares.

The Armenian-American quartet from Los Angeles knows that listening to its albums is like being pummeled by heavy metal guitars while drowning in a sea of encyclopedia pages. Knowing that the attempt to digest two albums of political rants punctuated by punishing guitar solos and stop-start melodies may cause their fans’ heads to explode, the band divided its recent album in two.

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Funky swagger in his step

by Metro

System Of A Down: Hypnotize
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Year-End accolades are in for SOAD:
TIME Magazine #3 in the Best of 2001
“In a year filled with screaming nu-metal acts, this band screams loudest and most eloquently. Front man Serj Tankian has a soaring voice, but as he demonstrates on stand-outs Chop Suey! and Forest, he knows how to modulate, sounding like an angry cantor one moment and a choir boy the next. Guitarist Daron Malakian backs it all up with a fierce wall of fuzz.”

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This may be the most well done metal / hard rock / etc disc that has ever been recorded. I am so floored with its completeness, its power, its pain that I really don’t know what else to say other than all pre-release hype was understated. May this system never cease.

David L. Wilson
Rating: 5/5
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System Of A Down: explosive and infectious second album from America`s most inventive modern metal band.

THANK GOD they haven`t disappointed us. Three years on from a truly classic debut that arrived like a bolt out of the blue and System Of A Down have done the honourable thing and only gone and bettered it. Читать полностью »