Track Listing

1. Suite Pee
2. Know
3. Sugar
4. Suggestions
5. Spiders
6. Ddevil
7. Soil
8. War
9. Mind
10. Peephole
11. CUBErt
12. Darts
13. PLUCK

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12355 in Music
• Released on: 2001-08-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.co.uk Review
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 metal moments; bowel-emptying, mountain-sized riffage twinned with lyrics that crossbreed J.R.R. Tolkein with Karl Marx, sung in a mixture of graveyard-friendly goth baritone and genitals-in-a-vice falsetto. Elsewhere, "Suite-Pee" and "War?" (answer in the affirmative, of course) provide some ass-kicking highlights. Truly, this is a killer album. --Louis Pattison

CD Description
System of a Down sees itself as being an integral part of anew musical revolution of heavy music. On the surface, the band's manifesto seems tangential to Rage Against the Machine's; but musically SOAD is a groove-metal machine, with a sound that incorporates a punk ethic, Panteraesque riffs, and a schizophrenic vocal approach reminiscent of Mike Patton.
Like a dose of chicken soup for a disconnected moshing youth, SYSTEM OF A DOWN is unrelenting. "Sugar" segues from neo-jazz verses into pounding thrash-core choruses. "Spiders" shows more depth, dynamics, and even poetic, melodic vocals. The production of the album is raw and very close to that ofa live album, surely a deliberate stroke by producer Rick Rubin (who has put many metal bands on the map under his guidance). On "Soil", vocalist Serj Tankian questions the ideology of democracy. With possibly more conspiracy theories thanan episode of THE X-FILES, System of a Down explores the concept of mass influence through technology in "War?" The essence of SYSTEM OF A DOWN can be found in "P.L.U.C.K"; the song's title says it all, an acronym for "politically lying, unholy, cowardly killers".

Customer Reviews

WOW
As with most people I bought the second album first(I was suitably amazed by that).But the first is just that much better. The guitar riffs and the drum beats are so precise and impeccable. Even if you dont Like SOAD this album will draw you in to their way of thinking.

If you love the second album, prepare yourself for a revelation with the first!!!

Do SOAD rock??!!? HELL YEAH!!!!

An amazing band, Godlike
From the start of the album with Suite-Pee right down to P.L.U.C.K., the music is of the best quality and astounishing variety that I was privelleged to listen to in my years of wandering for a band good enough to grace my poster-filled walls. This album delivers everything from Dark Humour, such as Sugar and Peep-Hole, to amazing bass and guitar riffs which completely blow your mind away. This amazing album should be listened to by any lovers of Korn, Ramnestein, Black Sabbath [if you've still got it ;-)] and defenately by lovers of Alice Cooper and Iron Maiden. The vocals done so brilliantly by Serj Tankian deliver an astounishing variety of sound, depth and feeling during each and every song of this album. From the different ways that he delivers with such incredible timing each of his well-thought out lyrics to the way that he does it so amazingly well live as well.
I myself respect SD for what they have tried, successfully, to do by this variety of ideas and riffs. This is defenately an amazing album which should be enjoyed by all, even if you go for softer, more "civilised" music, please, listen to this and discover a whole new world of witty heavy metal.
Oh, just for me, i would like to thank.... yeah right! Suggestions is a defenate "listen to" song, as is P.L.U.C.K. (politically lying, unholy cowardly killers) and Soil.
Enjoy!

Simply brilliant
Since it was first released coming up four years ago, the question has to be asked- why didnt System get big from then? Systems debuet is definately better than Toxicity.Every song on this album is sheer quality, and no matter what your favourite style of metal is there is something here for everyone. From the opening ringing of "Suitepee" to the sheer chaos of "P.L.U.C.K." this album does not disappoint. Taking influences from all genres and succesfuly mixing them together to form a superb mix of musical diversity, this is one not to be missed.John,Shavo and Daron provide what is the perfect metal soundtrack with Serj's voice acting as a fourth instrument.He sings better than Chino and screams better than Phil Anselmo, with a host of crazy,quirky sounds you normally wouldnt expect from metal thrown in for good measure.
Its hard to choose "Best" tracks but id hafta go for "Know","Soil","War?" and the crazy polka beats of "Peephole".Better than its sucessor,and like Star Wars, every home should have a copy.