Artist: System Of A Down Genre(s):
Metal: Alternative
Alternative
Metal
Discography:
Lonely Day Year: 2006
Tracks: 5
Mezmerize Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Live In Paris: Trabendo 07-04-05 (CD 2) Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
Live In Paris: Trabendo 07-04-05 (CD 1) Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Hypnotize Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
B.Y.O.B. Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Live At Souls Benefit 2004 Year: 2004
Tracks: 24
Untitled Advance Year: 2002
Tracks: 15
Steal This Album Year: 2002
Tracks: 16
B - Sides Year: 2002
Tracks: 17
Toxicity Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
System Of A Down Year: 1998
Tracks: 13
The Best of System of a Down Year:
Tracks: 13
Like many late-'90s metallic element bands, System of a Down stricken a residuum between '80s resistance slash metallic element and metallic early-'90s alternative rockers care Jane's Addiction. Their non-white, neo-gothic alternative alloy earned a cult following in the wake of the popularity of such likeminded bands as Korn and the Deftones. Vocalist Serj Tankian, guitar player Daron Malakian, bassist Shavo Odadjian, and drummer John Dolmayan formed System of a Down in southern California in the mid-'90s. They quickly earned a substantial following in Los Angeles, largely based on substantial word of rima oris. A three-song demo began circulating through metal collectors, and their fan nucleotide shortly ranch throughout non only America, simply Europe and New Zealand.
By the end of 1997, the group had sign to American, then distributed by Columbia Records. American/Columbia released the group's eponymic debut album in the summertime of 1998, securing the band opening muscae volitantes on the Slayer and Ozzfest tours.
System eventually went gold, and set up the September 2001 button of the even more ambitious
Toxicity. System's minute feat was some other weighed down music prevail, shaming the absolute majority of their nu-metal competition and running aside with multi-platinum honors. The quartette didn't dense down. Malakian started the eatURmusic embossment and Tankian a label called Serjical Strike; Tankian too collaborated with Armenian vanguard folk musician Arto Tuncboyaciyan in a propose called Serart. In November 2002 System issued the bare bones only no less powerful odds 'n' ends localise
Slip This Album!; they too remained politically active.
By 2004, System of a Down was back in the studio with Rick Rubin. The bold outcome of those roger Huntington Sessions was a single, larger-than-life album released in 2 parts.
Mezmerize/
Mesmerise kept System's enraged creativity awake, incorporating the wild vocal melodies, lyrical warmth, and rabid structural shifts that had go their hallmark.
Mezmerize, or office one, appeared in May 2005, piece
Mesmerize, its last section, appeared later in the yr, and both strike the top of the record album charts.
Patti LaBelle
