Toxicity came out the week of 9/11, and it felt more in tune with the scary post-Millennial era than any other album around. Tankian’s spitfire rap delivery is interspersed with vocal acrobatics ranging all the way from death metal growls to falsetto shrieks, all the while sounding certifiably insane, and in less than three minutes you knew heavy music would never be the same again. Sugar was the first single from SOAD’s debut album, and as such it introduced the world to the band’s unrelenting, schizophrenic, utterly bizarre aesthetic that as long as it didn’t have running for cover was sure to have you hooked for the foreseeable future. Violent Pornography is as crazy, catchy and heavy as metal music gets, and once again, with ridiculous lyrics like ‘ It’s a non-stop disco / Bet you it’s Nabisco,’ you just can’t imagine another band pulling it off - it’s 100% unmistakably System Of A Down.
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The first in their double album saga, Mezmerize marked the point at which SOAD shed their nu-metal skin and ditched the down-tuned guitars for an altogether cleaner sound, thus morphing into an all-round hard rock band capable of being progressive, original, accessible and brutal in equal measures. As a result, the songs were more intricate and dynamic, as perfectly showcased by the seven-minute rock symphony of Holy Mountains, which spellbindingly leads the listener towards the final reflective moments of their epic double album. By the time they released their fifth studio album Hypnotize, the chaos and aggression that SOAD had built their reputation on was still present, but it was filtered through a maturity in the song writing.
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