System Of A Down

Not really my thang

1998, heavy Metal, gar nicht mein Ding, nur halb gehört, schwache 2

not my favorite

Eh, not for me. Too angry. But, I can appreciate the energy and the provocative lyrics. I also really like the musical quirks contributed by their Armenian heritage. Also, I prefer Toxicity.

olisin ehkä teininä tykännyt.

While I can understand the appeal, just not my thing. A few of the songs are sort of listenable.

Not my thing

I've always been Impressed by the technical composition and tightness of their music, but just don't like the musical style of SoaD.

Nope! Maybe on another day but not really my thing.

kinda seems like the songs I like are the ones with the least amount of shouting ...

i like a tiny bit of it

I really like System Of A Down, but this album has lots of songs I really do not like :p

CANT DO IT Painful, did 1.5 songs

eh

Lots of interesting things going on with time signatures and I think it might have a good sense of humour to it but TOO SHOUTY FOR ME

not for me

i dont remember much from it but it was ok i guess 2.5

A generous two for having elements of unusualness.

If you like really really shitty music then this is just the album you've been looking for.

premiere fois jfini pas un album best: aucun worst: toute

system of a down syndrome ws: Suite-pee

I get the influence and importance, but this genre is just not for me.

Not for me

Maybe I don’t know ball

Ich mach Krach, ich schrei herum, ich brülle laut! Schrott! Weg damit!

Most people will hate this and also fail to see the value in it, so I can't rank this highly. Honestly, Toxicity should have got the nod instead. A lot of this is just bullshit noise and foul language.

I've always thought the religious commentary and the shouty, crustier material the weakest aspects of this group. That's pretty much the vast majority of this record. I will echo thousands of others and say Toxicity should have been the representative album for SOAD. The sound gets stale early, the production has aged poorly, the edginess is not offset like on their later records (or even on Serj's underrated solo projects). Bad record. Why do people like "Sugar" so much? God that song is annoying as fuck

Even listening to the “clean version” was torture. Definitely not my style. Zero stars.

Every now and then they sound like Tool but mostly they sound like shit. Again with the laughable Cookie Monster vocals. And these are the people who will tell you disco sucks. Hot chicks are into disco. Meth chicks are into this drivel.

no lo termine, de hecho apenas lo arranque, pero me molesta esta musica, es ruido mas q otra cosa. no me gusta. 2/10

well...crap, another angry, foul-mouthed, heavy drumbeat, screaming, slurring of words, repeating sequences of refrains, not only in the lyrics, but in the music itself...ugh! Just noise.....if you ask me. The best thing was that most of the songs were around 3 minutes long, except the one that was 6:17. After listening to this album, I couldn't help but wonder if one of the reasons teenagers are so angry is because they listen to this type of music as I know the longer I listened, the more irritated I became. Thank heavens that is finally over....

I like nothing about this. Could only tolerate a few seconds of each song.

Ridiculous - if this was a mp3 on my 90's PC hard disc, I'd delete to fit a few more cat memes on....extra 1/2 star rating as some of the drum/guitar work is quite tight = total of 1.5stars Angry bloke on vocals please report to your careers advisor though.

non mi sono ancora sviluppata abbastanza per ascoltare anche questo, lo farò mai? è davvero necessario? chissà

I listened to System of a Down when Toxicity came out and Chop Suey was a huge song on Alt Rock radio. I never really enjoyed all of it, but a few of their popular songs were fun and I was into harder stuff back then. Now, not so much. So I’m curious how I will feel about this album. Surprised to see this here and not Toxicity. Yeah this isn’t for me. But this guy is nuts he just screams sometimes out of nowhere and does a growl. Then he’s just randomly fast talk singing. It’s kinda funny. This doesn’t have the more alt rock radio friendly sound of some of their later singles that made them popular. I like some of the guitars when they’re soloing a little, but hate the angry sound. This is really not for me. I think this is going to be a 1, but I wish it was Toxicity on this list because think I would have more enjoyed that album revisiting it today. My guess is that would’ve been a 3 just for the familiarity of some of the songs. I was hoping I liked this more, but it just isn’t there.

Unlistenable

Not my type of music and this guy's voice annoys the fuck outta me

Absolute ass.

this is ahh bruh

Noise

Nope

nope

Not what I needed.

I didn't care much for this album. It just didn't strike me that there was all to much to the album besides being loud. I also wasn't a fan of how almost every track kind of sounded the same - some kind of interesting melodic parts that just get drowned out by noise and yelling at the end. I guess it all feels just a little muddy to me. I thought "Spiders" and "Peephole" were pretty decent, though.

I know it’s an unpopular opinion, but I have never liked System of a Down. The man voices drives me nuts. Bass player is a baddie, tho

nope cant do it

Can’t say I really enjoyed any of this. I can appreciate metal as much as the next guy, but to me this was just loud and heavy for the sake of being loud and heavy

There is a Venn diagram of justifiably angry but rarely at the right things, acne-riddled, C-student, anime/horror-fan, pretentious, over-dramatic, teenage boys and metal/nu-metal fans and other than age, that shit is just a single circle. And I am WAY outside of that circle.

Nah

Nop

Not for me

"Nu metal" may be the worst thing to ever happen to Western Civilization. More singing and less growling, please. Made it 45 seconds into this before reaching this conclusion. Makes Limp Bizkit sound like Mozart.

Oh dear, they may speak English, but these Americans are not the same as us... not one bit. What was this? A serious attempt at sounding like aggressive adults? The only song which caught my attention was 'Spiders' as it was mainly free of pretentious bollocks.

Shite, simply, Shite

Noise - normal rage music for that time.

1+ Stars (3/15)

First three tracks awful, next two ok. Downhill after that. 1.5 rounded down.

This…is not an album for me. I'm sure metalheads really enjoy this debut of SOAD, but I cannot get into the screaming and heavy rock instruments. No thank you.

It's difficult to express how much I dislike this album. Fuck me its so bad. I saw the cult following this had in the reviews, and I wanted to like it, but it just sounds like they just grabbed some crackhead off the street and forced him to "sing" over some great rock. If Serj Tankian wasn't born this would be a great album. Ruined my day

My son used to listen to to these a lot when eh was a teenager, always blasting out of his bedroom at ridiculous levels. I'm still traumatised, giving it a go but I don't think I can stick it out... Update - I gave up after two songs

I’m sorry - my internal systems just broke down listening to this.

Ohh cause that just assaulted my ears

Not my cup of tea

Can’t do it. I detest this music. I tried but I just can’t. 01-10-2026

Nej, bara nej

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Jag försöker verkligen. Men det bara går inte. Det blir så jävla töntigt med självmords- och våldsreferenserna kombinerat med lite antikrist som ska låta tufft. Det går helt enkelt inte att ta på allvar. Tror att dessutom försöker lajva något som ska likna medeltida/vikingatida epos. Det gör så klart inte saken bättre. Musikaliskt är det aningen bättre än andra album inom numetallspektrat från samma tidsperiod som vi haft. Trots detta en bra bit kvar för att klättra upp till en tvåa.

Om grabbarna hade varit 10 år gamla så kanske det hade varit en förmildrande omständighet. Att vuxna människor spelat in detta och dessutom gett ut det är inte försvarbart.

This is just not my type of music. Wanted to quit listening from song 1.

This one's just not for me

People seem to like this a lot, I found it unbearable.

Too monotonous and uninteresting.

I only know their 2001 album. Is this more important than the album with Chop Suey on it???

Nope

Go Azerbaijan!

It's one big "fuck off" from me. Maybe the timing didn't help, I put this on at about 7am to listen to in the background as I started my work day. I found myself sending emails that were more and more angry and insulting. Thankfully I turned it off before I got sacked.

Terrible. Had to stop after track 2

Not as bad as other metal albums is about the only positive thing I can say.

More like System of a Clown. This is what Rage Against the Machine would sound like if they did comedy... poorly...

I really never understood the hype with this band. A lot of inaudible shouting. Nope.

A bit too heavy for me, and not melodic enough. The whole "screaming into the mic" thing isn't really my jam. 1,5/5

Terrible.

Oh God no! wow.

I feel confident I’ll never listen to that again

pretty bad.

You definitely do not need to listen to this album before you die. There are similar local bands who hit the drums just as hard scream meaningless rants just as incomprehensibly and do guitar gymnastics and percussive bar chords just as incessantly ( with stops for effect). Try a track or two if you must.

I understand why it's on here but, pretty painful on the ole ears nonetheless. Many skips.

Not for me

this is just desperately unchic. i hate the corny yowl that metal singers always do. if you’re going to sing about beating women at least do it in a way that sounds good.

I’d genuinely love to know how some of the albums make the cut for this project, I really would.

Just not for me - I managed to get through the first disk - but I didn't enjoy it

Ah…I see what Noel Gallagher meant when he said System Of A Down is “the shittiest band of all time”.

As someone of a certain age, when SOAD emerged I found them cringeworthy as I did most “nu-metal” at the time. Anyone that cut their teeth on proper metal felt the same, so just kinda let them get on with it. Which of course, they did. Let’s not pretend this is anything spectacular though. It’s performed well and produced well, but it was never the groundbreaking debut some made it out to be. Judging from their music that followed this (what I’ve heard of it at least) they cultivated and perfected their sound and obviously built on the foundations on display here, selling millions in the process. But yeah, neither heavy nor that clever. One for the youth, and still sounds that way all these years later.

Definetely not for me. Too much everything. Too noisy. Too aggressive. I almost started having an headache… Maybe it’s my fault for not understanding how deep this music is, but to my ears this is just a random dude screaming random words.

Not a fan

Pros: The tempo and style changes within each song are interesting. Cons: The screaming into the mic is painfully awful. Who wants to listen to that? It overshadows some of the more interesting music that’s happening. 2 out of 10. 1 out of 5.

Its okay

War is the best song on here. The vibe is something that I can’t imagine ever being in the mood to want to hear. It’s like boring metal circus music. I guess I just don’t get it.

Not even going to bother with this one

The greatest assemblage of Armenians from Los Angeles this side of the Kardashians. I'm glad this isn't the album with Chop Suey! That song sucks. The goofy voice on Suggestions is not a pleasant listening experience. I like all the standard length heavy metal songs though. From song to song I can't tell if I like the lead singer more than most heavy metal vocalists or worse. I'm getting some nu metal vibes on Soil...not a good turn. It all sounds like Nu Metal now...maybe I need to relisten to this with a more critical ear. Now a song about Armenian Genocide...I knew these guys were way into making that more widely known thing. I guess calling Turks heathens is ok when they were genociding your people. And now some Cookie Monster voice. Some carnival-type music added into Peephole...these guys were trolling all of us before that was a thing. Another genorcide song.

Loving the voice, hating everything else

This is all sorts of arse. Lead singer Serj Tankian's vocals are especially whiny and annoying throughout. There are brief moments where it’s almost OK, but for the most part I can’t stand this. My question is what the fuck were people smoking in the late 90s and the early 2000s that made them think these guys were good? It’s baffling to me that System Of A Down were as popular as they were.

Suck my fat one

Not for me, sorry.

More music to drive parents of teenagers insane.

Shite

not my music style

Exactly as puerile and unsophisticated as the title of the opening track Suite Pee suggests. One of the few albums that's so devoid of merit and variation that I considered giving up on it only 2 tracks in.

Utter crap

Strange music. No hits. Alternative/ rock.

Irritante kinderachtige grafherrie, een boel gescheld en dan nog theatraal ook? Mag ik u vriendelijk verzoeken u weer naar de uitgang te begeven?

Oh man, how I hate this staccato chanting, or the screaming. This guitar blaring and this 'hammering' drumming. You can forget about me listening to this record all the way through. That sort of thing ends up in the musical trash can for me.

Ok metal you go sit over there in the corner with all of your friends thrashing and bashing and I'm going to be all the way over here listening to literally anything else.

Worried it might be terrible and it didn't disappoint.

Some good tunes but, unfortunately, overall unlistenable due to the occasional vocal choice.

So fucking boring. If you heard one song off this album you’ve heard them all. They have the range of emotion of an upset toddler.

0.5

Thus album is fucking garbage... In fact, I'd rather be fucking garbage. (2.2) ★

I really didn't like a second of this. I guess the one compliment I can give it is that Serj Tankian is sort of an interesting vocalist for this type of music. Kind of similar to Mike Patton of Faith No More, he has a big range of stuff he can do. So, I get why this might be interesting to the metalheads. But, I didn't really like any of these songs and found them pretty torturous to listen to. Maybe the mad circus music of "Peephole" was the closest to something I didn't hate. 1 star.

altern. metal, 1998 -> 1

I don't know why--just a visceral reaction--but it sounded like a" mash up" between Devo and B 52's at 10x speed.

As with every album in this project, I listened all the way through. I don't connect with this on any level - the rage, the deep dark frenzy, the music (or lack thereof). It's an assault. Hard pass, never again.

Music for sexually repressed, violence seeking, undereducated white boys. Always looking to blame the weaker sex or darker skinned, this is their marching music. Regardless of the music’s message, angry impotent boys get their hard-on for hate.

This is the 76th album I’m rating. I haven’t listened to anything by them but I want to like metal. Adding to my Playlist - Nothing. Not Adding to my Playlist - Suite-Pee, Know, Sugar, Suggestions, Spiders, DDevil, Soil, War?, Mind, Peephole, CUBErt, Darts, and P.L.U.C.K.. Suite-Pee - I really don’t like those vocals. All in all I liked 0/13 songs. I don’t know if I don’t like metal or if I don’t like nu metal either way I don’t like this.

Too aggressive, loud, in-your-face, and tiresome music for my taste. I have never really liked nu metal / alternative metal from the 90s/00s. The production is good and perhaps it isn't sound as dated as many other albums from this era, but I still really didn't like this album at all. 1.5 at best.

Ei ihan niin perseilyä kuin alun perusteella vaikuttaisi, mutta vaikeaa kuunneltavaa, jos "soft spotia" ei ole muodostunut teini-iässä.

Gar nicht meins

Veels te ruig voor mij het is wel "vet" maar dit is wel echt precies de muziek die ik niet leuk vind

No. I never could do heavy metal. If they didn’t scream like that, I think I could enjoy some of the music. There’s some good driving music, but overall it’s just not for me. But I can’t stand the vocals. I would probably give it a 1.5 if I could because there is some good driving music.

If I could zero….

I'm a metal and heavy rock fan but I just don't get this noise. Plenty of other bands were making a racket like this at that time Nothing ground breaking.

Inarticulate anger. I get it. I’m a woman in Trump’s America. I’m angry, but not this angry. It’s just raw energy and no outlet. I don’t get the catharsis that should come with angry music, I just get angry that I’m listening to this.

Absolute dogshit STOP GIVING ME METAL

Gotta say I instantly feel worse after listening to music like this

Angry metal not my thing

a lot of popular music is just nihilistic claptrap

If you like death metal this is all you

Not for me

I gave this a fair go, but it is close to intolerable for me I’m afraid.

Nu metal is lame and this didn't change my mind. Just awful

nope. not my bag (baby)

Not as bad as other metal albums is about the only positive thing I can say. I was going to give it a 2 - but then I keep scoring the various jazz albums that i don't get a 2 - and would much rather listen to jazz so I guess this is a 1.

The entire album sounds how unstable feels. Maybe they should try meditation or goat yoga. The goofy voices were annoying but the screaming then sweetly singing over rage guitars sealed the deal.

In my humble opinion, this music is shit.

I often think that I was born a bit too early to like this really heavy thrash metal stuff. When I was in my mid teens I couldn’t get enough of the heavy rock groups who were around then. Deep Purple in particular. But I cannot think of any bands around then who played rock at this speed and intensity and who would have made Purple look like pussy cats. If there had been I’m sure that I would’ve gone for them wholeheartedly and the hearing loss I now suffer as a result of placing my head between two speakers, on at full pelt and headphone style, would have been a whole lot worse. As it is, when I did eventually get to hear stuff like this album my musical tastes had gone off in another direction and I discounted it like I do now has horrible noise. I struggle to think of any circumstances when, where, how and why it would be a joyful experience to listen to this album. But then I’m probably forgetting my time as a spotty faced teenager in my bedroom with my mum at the bottom of the stairs shouting at me to turn my music down. That was then but this is now and today’s listen wasn’t a very pleasant one at all. 1/5 29/10/24

Grow up.

Unlistenable. Polish, turd, Mr Sheen, etc.

Really abrasive and in your face. If you like that, good for you. I don’t.

One bad album after a worse album. This is awful.

I do like some metal music, but this just isn't my thing

Wow definitely not for me but if you like this kind of thing then I’m sure it’s fine.

Heavy Metal. No thanks

How can I rate something like this? It's obviously very popular and enjoyable to some people but I made it exactly 42 seconds into this album. I think for that reason I have to give it a 2/10 (1/5)

not for me at all feel like they're screaming at me

What an absolute piece of shit record! Cringey in its shallow edginess, awkward tempo changes, horribly off-key singing (and clearly not trying to be). There is nothing avant-garde about this. The barked, faux-theatrical vocals "Sugar" is a real low point. This is the first time I've ever heard this band, but I've known the name of the band for a long time, and I've always just assumed it was a band of down syndrome members. Fuck. Please stop squeaking. "Shake your spear at Shakespeare." What an idiotic lyric! This is beta metal. Really awkward phrasings and lyrics throughout. IIRC, this band headlined Cringefest 1998.

this is not music 1/5

Harsh, both vocals and music

Feels like heavy metal musical theater - hated it

Awful shouty rock

Banal, boring, samey music that people who were blinded by their nostalgia are in love with. I did not enjoy it 26 years ago when it came out and I dislike it even more know. Clearly has influences from thrash (Suicidal Tendencies), punk (Stormtroopers of Death (the real SOD), and metal bands (Sepultra, Death, Slayer )that are far more interesting and memorable than they are. Even their Middle Eastern vibe just feels like revisited Dick Dale. Which is fine, but not necessarily groundbreaking.

0 stars

Very aggressive, and it all sounds the same to me. If this is on the 1001 best, I can’t imagine what’s on the 1001 worst

I guess I’m not angry enough for metal. I try so often with this project. Sometimes I like softer metal if it is more nuanced (I’m sure people are like “fuck you this is full of nuance”, but I don’t enjoy the cacophony). This just makes me angry. Probably the only genre I can’t do. I don’t like someone screaming DIE MOTHERFUCKER in my ear. I guess that makes me a real square. But I wanna vibe. This ain’t my vibe.

About what we expected, which = not our thing. Didn't make it through all of this, despite the occasional glimmers of enjoyment we gained from the background beats. His voice is quite unpleasant at times.

Bloody awful. - why am I getting such shitty albums?

Trash. Driving beats, but trash lyrics. Only made it through the first 3 tracks.

ho ascoltato due canzoni e ho buttato dentro. scusate per la poca collaborazione ma ho una soglia molto bassa di sopportazione per i suoni che sono aggressivi e cacofonici allo stesso tempo.

Yuck!

A common reaction to this experiment for me is: “holy shit, people listen to this music” followed by “holy shit, people who would undertake an experiment like this list actually revere this!” This album just sounds like alternating between power chords, cartoonish falsetto, cartoonish noises, all packaged into nu-metal. Nahhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I was excited to hear the intelligent, insightful, and incisive lyrics everyone assured me Serj Tankian delivered. I’m still waiting.

the start of the last track sounds like the start of welcome to the jungle by GNR. That's really all I have to say.

NO!

Stupid fucking kiddie metal. Garbage

Not my favourite genre and nothing i found enjoyable or good, for me it was just screaming.

SUPER aggressive, not good study music lol

this album is quite obviously anti-turkish propaganda thinly veiled as music. no doubt thought up by a greek.

Did not like it at all.

I can't think of a single human feeling or emotion that would put me in the mood to listen to this crap. A very hard no.

Nope.

Not for me... I prefer solemn and bluesy heavy music... not cartoony energy like this

Voice is okay even with the growling/roaring, but lyrics are horrible and language is a bit much. Guitar is actually not bad.

It’s so loud that you can’t even hear the words. For people who like to stereotype, this is your classic thrash metal band.

Ok look I like hard rock/nu metal but more in the papa roach, HU, some Beartooth vein not the Korn/SOAD vein where it's just some guy screaming into a mic. I mean I don't understand how anyone could sit through that and think, "wow that was really good, I really enjoyed that". That was awful. The only reason it might not be the worst album we have listened to is because the instruments were played well (mainly the guitar and drums). Otherwise this album was an absolute pain to sit through. "Have you ever wanted to die?" they ask on one song. Yes, yes I have, because I had to sit through this album.

ugh. so much anger..... think I need to sit in a quiet room for a while. one star is being generous

Don't get it...don't want to

1,... por que no le puedo poner 0

Way too heavy metal for my liking.

I don't want to listen to that !

solo me ha gustado spyder por ahora, es demasiado metal metálico alternativo para mi

forgive me, I find it unlistenable. Suite-Pee: 5.8 Know: 3.7 Sugar: 4.5 Suggestions: 2.4 Spiders: 6.2 DDevil: 5.4 Soil: 4.8 War?: 4.9 Mind: 1.8 Peephole: 3.3 CUBErt: 4 Dart: 1.5 P.L.U.C.K.: 2.8

Not my jam.

LOL this is some real LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOOOOOOOOORRRR type shit.

Yuck

Put this off all day, and when I got around to listening it was even worse than expected. I like a few of their lore melodic songs on Toxcitity but this album is wall-to-wall incoherence. Feels like self-parody. Wish I could give it zero stars.

No, not an album I needed to hear. I was onboard with the aggressive guitar. I can handle the angry, loud lyrics. It's protest music, right? I cannot handle the weird falsetto and unnatural low growling vocals. Those are comical. Seriously, are the vocals a joke with a real metal band behind them? Listen to The Darkness - at least they admit to the absurdity of the lyrical style. It's absolutely no for me.

Decided not to finish the album. Favorite Tracks: Spiders

I could not connect with this type of music but I respect it.

Such a boring repetitive album where almost every song sounds the same. the only thing i'll give this album is how sonically coherent it is, almost to the point its the same song every single time. I would not wish the pain of this album onto anyone, i did not like any of these songs. this is not my genre, i hated it Suite-Pee Nice guitar I don't like all this aggressive stuff Who's growling at me The vocals are alright Is this a Christian album? Stop screaming If I put this on at a party I'd be kicked out Won't add to playlist Know Sounds the same as the first song What's he saying Catchy Oh, growling This is not my genre The verses are nice oh growling again stop growling my brain hurts I know I'm not adding this to my playlist (get it) I'm stuck here for 50 minutes Sugar Is this another song? I was already bored of the first two songs Wait, there's 4 live recordings I don't have to listen to Back to song Stop screaming I want to hear what you are saying I hear the English accent What a way to start the Saturday morning Not adding to playlist Suggestions Nice, less aggressive Ooooh catchy No screaming yet Omg Tension oh screaming The only part I don't like is the screaming I hope this guy loses his voice because what was that high pitched screech he made Not adding to playlist Spiders I'm already tired Too soft so far Better than the other songs I like the guitars Not much screaming A bit boring What was the guy who made this book thinking adding these albums too it I don't like this much and it's one of the better songs ancdefghijklmnopwrstuvwxyz typing test because im bored won't add to playlist DDevil Nice drums don't like the guitar oh, growling very aggressive "loud and noisy" i dont like this this genre is definitely not for me Did he just snort? I dont want to do this anymore wont add to playlist Soil didn't even notice I was in a new song noooo there's growling no no no the only thing I like about this song are the drums Stop growling please, this is not enjoyable I have to keep on checking if im on a new song This is the halfway point, hoping for a better second half this growl thing does not sound good these guys scare me War? It sounds the same to me There's nothing to say this is boring its going into both of my ears and im not computing it because it's so boring no no no no no no synth? nice vocal effects? oh he just screamed he sounds like a demon wont add to playlist Mind please, this album needs a calmer song that doesn't have you screaming that was too quiet nope, he's edgy again what the hell was that laugh thing stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop stop the screaming 6 minute song? I try listening to music and this is what I get I'm only halfway through this boring song I can listen to long songs, but only good ones This makes me sad because i do not like this album wont add to playlist Peephole Feels like a circus but bad i dont know how people can enjoy this music I'd rather listen to graduation by kanye and i hated that album im tired of this i want to stop here, it all sounds the same to me wont add to playlist CUBErt interesting title nice drums edgy again i do not like this Im so bored, so so so so so so repetitive my brain does not want this wait, im on a new song darts i thought this was the same one as the last edgy again P.L.U.C.K. this better be good because I've wasted my time with this album is this man ok? what has he went through for this monster of an album to be created im so happy this is the last song im yawning im sorry for being so negative, but this stuff bores me i feel like i could make a better album and i have no money and not much musical compositional talent stop screaming i dont like this shut up be quiet be quiet extra song - chop suey! this is their most streamed song so it better be good better than the other songs ive heard from them nevermind just yawned, i cannot be bothered.

Not for me.

Wasn’t for me and wasn’t in the mood to persevere and listen through.

Not for me

Growing up as a young metal fan, I knew about System Of A Down but never actually listened to them outside of MTV-level hits such as Chop Suey. It turns out their instrumentation in particular is actually much heavier than I'd thought. It sounds like pretty raw and occasionally sludgy thrash metal, with some deeply buried blues undertones. The instrumentation is actually pretty good. However, that doesn't hold up due to the highly dissonant and abrasive songwriting. What really get to me though, are the vocals. They sound highly inconsistent, with the only consistent thing about them being that they tug at my nerves. They're somewhere between chaotic anger, childish whining and flat, toneless disarray. I did not enjoy this album. I planned to give this 2 stars but I really couldn't bring myself to finish the final 3 tracks.

I just didn’t jive with this at all.

Listened to first 3 or 4 songs and found nothing to like

Tried persevering through a few tracks, started skipping, gave up. I like a couple off the next album of theirs but this is bollocks to be honest.

Made it through 2 tracks, my God this is just awful

Can I give it negative stars?

I tried to listen... lasted minutes. Good hard rock sound... then I heard the scream metal. Did a quickie through the starred songs... yep. enough for me.

Awful

There were absolutely zeros good parts to this album. It’s self explainable. BIG thumbs down.

5 seconds in and i'm exhausted, this is gonna be an in my face slog to get through I c... ... oh no. nope. cookie monster vocals holy hell. how does anyone get through this. automatic 1 - goodnight and lock the door on the way out. 1/10 1 star

Truly awful. Definitely among the top 10 worst albums from the 400+ I've heard since I've been doing this.

fuck out of here this shit is without merit

Not for me

I thought this might be good but fucking hell it's annoying. Like a nu-metal Queen. I didn't make it all the way through

nothing I liked

Yuck

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Not for me

Really disliked it. Don't like screaming music

Meh

Wow, I am glad that this is over. Not even a little bit enjoyable.

Definitely not my jam.

heavy metal, alternativt, lidt for højt

I hate nu metal with a burning passion this shit gave me a fucking aneurism

0/5 harde schreeuwmuziek, niet mijn stijl.

This is not for me at all

Shut up mum I'm a grown up

Not my thing

man, i’m sorry, this is ass the only song I liked was Peephole, and I didn’t like it that much, it just reminded me of Mr Bungle which is easily my favorite metal band I just feel like these guys don’t offer anything other than plain metal like, Mr Bungle and Rage Against the Machine are great because they offer a lot of diversity and the other genres make the metal interesting this is just boring fucking metal 2/10

Not much into acid rock

If this does it for you, then have at it.

🚫NO😫

fuck this album and this band in general

They lost me at RRRRAAAAAAAAA!

I'm familiar with who system of the down is but personally, this album doesn't do it for me.

nope

I was so not up for this yesterday and I still am not haha. I only listened to the first couple of tracks and I could not get into it sorryyyyy.

Not a fan at all and my heart sank when I saw this. At the moment we're having one heavy/thrash metal thing a week and its doing my head in! Hoping we're passing this phase, just not enjoyable music for me at all. Its just TOO much - do people genuinely just chill to this?

Couldn't listen to it all. Nu-metal, or whatever this is, is not for me

Not for me. If I could rate it 0 I would

Nope

C'est bon je l'ai écouté avant de mourir.

Possibly the one genre I just can’t take. Thankfully all the songs were pretty short. I have been in a couple of mosh pits in my time and there’s something cleansing and exhilarating about them. And I could see System of a Down’s concerts being one massive mosh pit which I could’ve enjoyed when I was a young pup. Read thru the lyrics with each song because you can’t understand them otherwise! Hoping to find a gem but just couldn’t do it. Did chuckle at the Kombucha mushroom people line in Sugar. They were ahead of their time referencing Kombucha in 1998! But it’s like they try too hard with the lyrics, or maybe not at all? Shake your spear at Shakespeare? Loud and noisy, strong refrigerators? Makes me think of Eminem’s ‘Lucky You’; why don't we make a bunch of fuckin' songs about nothin' and mumble! Granted, Eminem was referring to rap and System of a Down definitely doesn’t mumble! But not sure screaming is any better. It’s like it’s a formula (but traditionally speaking, this shit works, right?). Say some shit about religion and gods (Suite-Pee, War, Darts), a song or two referencing the devil (DDevil), write a line for the chorus (‘We will fight the heathens’ ‘Humans everywhere, canned Cliche people organs rare’) and angrily scream it over and over into the microphone as loud as you can so it’s barely coherent. Rinse, repeat. Spiders may have been the most tolerable as far as listening. Thought Mind may have been something but then it went off the rails. Soil probably the best lyrically. Overall, I thought Peephole may have been something but feel the lyrics are contrived trying to be deep but really meaning nothing. P.L.U.C.K may have been the best…because it was the last song. But being the second longest song, truthfully, I shut it off with a minute left, just couldn’t do it anymore. I try to include an understanding and appreciation of the genre and the work and effort that goes into it all when I rate if it’s not my ‘cup of tea’ but I just can’t with Progressive/Thrash/Heavy Metal.

Comical vocals like the singer has multiple personalities/voices. The fun is a little spoilt by the aggressive lyrics. Disjointed music. Occasionally good hard rock, but a bit too out there for me.

No thanks!

Too fast and thrash and hard for me

Remember the stories about how some dude took angle dust, cut his skin off with a broken mirror, and fed it his dog? I’d rather do that, without the angel dust, than listen to this again. Halfway through Mind, the words “Go away, go away” appear. I wish SoaD would have heeded their own words. From the “r” rolling to the scream-o, this is a 13 song heaping pile of shit. I’m offended 1 star is the minimum. This album can properly fuck right off!

Meh

screamy, whiny high pitch voice

Rough

The music is mostly dreadful The lyrics are near unbearable Cringy and dated Just pretty awful to be frank

Didn't finish it. I may be a bit harsher on nu metal because I used to like it when I was younger, but really, there's a good reason I don't listen to it anymore. It's all just so boring. All the songs I listened to were under 3 minutes, but I checked to see how much longer I have to listen for all of them. The music is so generic. Not a huge fan of the vocals, either.

shite - managed 4 songs and just not for me. 1

What the hell was that?!

I think I like Mumford more than the Lumineers. This is all to say that I normally listen to music with a little bit of intent, and I can't seem to find it here.

Not a fan

Not my Wavelength at all. Really struggled to connect with any of it.

Noise by any other name. Funny that, though, because I can think of 2 nice System of a Down songs, it's just that they weren't here.

Definitely not for me, you wouldn't pay me to listen to something like this again. 1/5 stars.

Hard pass. Get it off the list. Songs 4 and 5 started with some promise only to revert to annoyance. This is the album you'll hear after you die on an endless loop in hell.

hated this

Not the sound that I was looking for.

Did not like

nope! terrible

Can I give no stars?

Het is heel bekend maar ik vind het helemaal niks

I turned it off after 30 seconds.

Ouch my ears are sore. Not a fan. And they say “Sugar” doesn’t go bad😯

NAFF

Screaming not singing, too heavy.

I did not liked

nope, hate it

No more metal

Meh

Did not really care for it. Not my type of music

Got through 5 songs. I HATE System of a Down

Could not listen to it. Not my type at all!

Heyy these are the people who made Chop Suey! Which I've never listened to but heard it's good. Pretty hard stuff, feels like snorting shrapnel. Punk rock? Metal? Idk I gotta get better at identifying music genres. Cool, but I probably won't listen to them voluntarily. Nicky might though.

No me gusta mucho.

Never really been a fan of System of a Down. Need to give them a chance and check out their catalog.