The album rules, it really does, it holds up beautifully, probably because there’s little else that sounds like it, and it pretty much strayed from the typicality of late 90s metal. And I could write even more about the jazz element of ‘Sugar’, and how that song itself is the one song from the album that went on to have a lot of lasting popularity, but like I said, I’m just going to keep boring myself. What’s the point in describing this album? I’ve already mentioned how dark it is, how dreary it is, how unique it is? And you really don’t have to detail it that much, it’s easily done. ‘Know’ follows, and it’s probably the best depiction of how I described the band in the previous paragraph there’s some amazing ethnic-esque percussion, playing as rhythm to a very distorted metal overlay. This song has a very doom metal breakdown section, kicking things off with something that is fairly unique for System. The album opens with ‘Suite-Pee’, a fittingly disjointed song with a no holds barred approach to songwriting and delivery. This album is incredibly dark there is no desire to sound like anything that could be considered acceptable, it’s just four guys rolling with a lot of world music influence, fused with their gloomy metal sound, echoing lyrics of war and genocide. In retrospect, System of a Down’s eponymous debut probably isn’t the most ‘typical’ of System when considering what their most well-known material sounded like. Time to check out System of a Down, album by album! When they were at their best, their most daring, their most creative, their most ‘System’, they were incredible.
System of a Down are/were a band like no other their approach to performing heavy metal was unique – it was quirky, off-kilter, comical but somehow still appropriate to the political subject matters the band tackled. Time for a new retrospective! This time for everyone’s least favourite late 90s-00s alternative metal band, System of a Down.
Did you hear the one about the four Armenians?
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