I'm gonna also go to bat for this one. This band is an acquired taste, to say the least, and our dear List Leaders have unfortunately again gone with an album that very few fans would say is the group's best. Which is too bad because "Toxicity" is maybe the only good thing to come out of nu-metal and I have a hunch it ain't coming up in our queue. You can hear the progression towards that album on this one, but there's far too much dependence on pretty basic breakdowns and the kitchen sink approach to the vocals. He tames that shit down a tad later and it just fits better on an album that is more thrashy and spastic musically all around. I realize saying that probably means there's no chance in hell that Craig will listen to it now, but I'm telling you... if you give it a chance to click, and it clicks? It's a hell of a guilty-esque pleasure. And not even that guilty! Because unlike most (all?) of their counterparts, System of a Down chose more interesting things to write songs about than say, "the nookie" or "bawitiba da-bang da-bang please-shoot-me-in-the-face." Low bar, yes, but dudes were signing crazy weird ass songs about the Armenian genocide and the industrial prison complex. What I'm trying to say is they're better than Disturbed. Can we all just agree on that?