![]() (Unintelligible).īORDAL: And somehow they've sold millions of records of this pretty oddball music. ![]() All four members are of Armenian descent. SYSTEM OF A DOWN: (Singing) Banana, banana, banana, terra cotta, banana, terra cotta, terra cotta pie.īORDAL: The band is based in Los Angeles. For treated indigenously, digenously, human right is.īORDAL: All right, some facts about System of a Down. ![]() (Overlapping) We are the (unintelligible). SYSTEM OF A DOWN: (Singing) Dreaming of screaming. And whatever musical direction they're taking, you can always be sure that they'll go there with gusto. But for those of us who appreciate a little tongue in our cheek, the band is self-confident enough to have a little fun, too. For those serious metal fans out there who don't much like a comic element in their hard rock, System of a Down can play hard and fast with the best of them. SYSTEM OF A DOWN: (Singing) The cold insincerity of steel machines have consumed our euphoria, transforming us into muted dreams, dreaming of the day that we attack, attack, attack your fetal servitude, we attack, attack, attack, attack with pesticide.īORDAL: System of a Down gets classified as a hard-rock/metal hybrid, but on their new CDs, "Mesmerize" and "Hypnotize," they owe as much to the operatic silliness of Gilbert and Sullivan and Queen as they do to Black Sabbath and Motorhead. How many hyphens can you squeeze into one band and one album even if it is a double-CD set? How about Armenian-American-progressive-hard-rock-musical theater-punk-metal? What do you think that'll sound like? Well, brace yourselves. SYSTEM OF A DOWN: (Singing) Breathing each other's lives. Independent music critic Christian Bordal has this review. Now the band is back with the second CD, "Hypnotize," and again they've debuted on top. That CD, called "Mesmerize," debuted at number one on the Billboard charts. The hard rock group System of a Down released the first half of a two-CD set six months ago.
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