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- Summary: This is the alternative metal band's follow-up to their hit 1998 self-titled debut. Rick Rubin produced the 14-track effort.
- Record Label: American Recordings
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative, Metal
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Top Track
Chop Suey! | |
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Wake up (wake up) Grab a brush and put a little make-up Hide the scars to fade away the shake-up (hide the scars to fade away the...) Why'd you leave... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 7 out of 9
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Mixed: 1 out of 9
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Negative: 1 out of 9
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Where the debut sometimes resembled a psycho-ward jam session, System serve up some surprising melodies on "Chop Suey!" "Forest" and the haunting "Aerials."
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Alternative PressThe fast parts are faster, the hard parts are harder, and the melodic sections are more memorable. [Oct 2001, p.102]
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Cast in layers upon layers of aural intricacy, Toxicity charters new frontiers, yet it’s still grinding rock at its most deafening.
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Revolver45 minutes of jagged, uneven music that includes sparks of urgent genius, and perhaps five or six seconds that border on legitimate transcendence. [Nov/Dec 2001, p.117]
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System of a Down's sophomore album thrives on this sort of urgency, the adrenal rush that insists there's no time for ambiguity.
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They have a sense of dynamics, tempering their heaviness with unexpected touches of acoustic folksiness and prog-rock flourishes.
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UncutToxicity is virtually unlistenable: thrash metal splintered into a million pieces by unnecessary time changes, topped off with excruciatingly theatrical vocals. [Dec 2001, p.118]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 161 out of 171
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Mixed: 7 out of 171
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Negative: 3 out of 171
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PaulH.Feb 27, 2002
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Jan 13, 2011
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liordAug 29, 2003this album is really great!!! i loved the cd very much! i hope system will bring us more albums like this one
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MattSApr 3, 2006
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Feb 4, 2015
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May 11, 2022
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VakilyZJul 27, 2004This album blows!! Anyone who takes this band seriously should be shot and flayed!! Rage Against the Machine will always be better than this crap!!
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