System of a Down
System of a Down, often shortened to SOAD or System, is a four-piece Armenian-American rock band formed in 1994 in Glendale, California, in the United States. The band currently consists of Serj Tankian (lead vocals, keyboards), Daron Malakian (vocals, guitar), Shavo Odadjian (bass, backing vocals) and John Dolmayan (drums).
The band achieved commercial success with the release of five studio albums, three of which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. System of a Down has been nominated for four Grammy Awards, and their song "B.Y.O.B." won the Best Hard Rock Performance of 2006. The group went on hiatus in August 2006 and reunited in November 2010, embarking on a tour for the following three years. System of a Down has sold over 40 million records worldwide.
History
Soil (1992–1994)
Serj Tankian and Daron Malakian attended Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School as children, although due to their eight-year age difference they did not meet until 1992 while working on separate projects at the same recording studio. They formed a band named Soil with Tankian on vocals and keyboards, Malakian on vocals and guitar, Dave Hakopyan (who later played in The Apex Theory/Mt. Helium) on bass and Domingo "Dingo" Laranio on drums. The band hired Shavo Odadjian (another Rose and Alex Pilibos alumnus) as manager, although he eventually joined Soil as rhythm guitarist. In 1994, after only one live show, and one jam session recording, Hakopyan and Laranio left the band, feeling that it was not going anywhere.
System of a Down (album)
System of a Down is the debut album by Armenian American rock band System of a Down, released in 1998. The album was certified gold by the RIAA on February 2, 2000. Two years later, after the success of Toxicity, it was certified platinum.
Overview
The cover artwork is from an anti-fascist, World War II-era poster designed by the artist John Heartfield for the Communist Party of Germany, which was contemporary with and directly against the Third Reich. The text on the original poster is: "5 fingers has a hand! With these 5 grab the enemy!" This slogan inspired part of the text contained on the back of the System of a Down album: "The hand has five fingers, capable and powerful, with the ability to destroy as well as create". Later, it is written in bold letters: "Open your eyes, open your mouths, close your hands and make a fist" (used later by Serj Tankian in the song "Uneducated Democracy").
Reception
Q magazine (10/01, p. 152) - 4 stars out of 5 - "This remains an excellent starting point for this most curious band".
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ALBUMS
- Kill Rock'N'Roll: Greatest Hits released: 2008
- Live 2005 released: 2005
- Hypnotize released: 2005
- Mezmerize released: 2005
- Storaged Melodies released: 2003
- Psycho System released: 2002
- Steal This Album! released: 2002
- 2001-08-25: Chop Suey! A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise 2001: Biddinghuizen, Netherlands released: 2001
- 12th Annual Kroq Almost Acoustic Christmas released: 2001
- Toxicity II released: 2001
- Toxicity released: 2001
- Toxic Traxx released: 2001
- System of a Down released: 1998
- 1999-11-13: Best Buy, Pasadena, CA, USA released:
- 1998-08-22: The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA, USA released:
- 2005-06-12: Download Festival: Donington, UK released:
- 2005-01-25: Triple J: Live at the Wireless: Sydney, Australia released:
- Know Your Enemy released:
- Unreleased, Live & Rare, Volume 1 released:
- 1997-07-11: Los Angeles, CA, USA released:
- 1999-12-20: Astoria, London, UK released:
- Post Hypnotic Suggestions released:
- Greatest Hits released:
2001-08-25: Chop Suey! A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise 2001: Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
Released 2001Toxic Traxx
Released 2001- Will They Die 4 You
- Shame
- Snowblind
- Störagéd
- Starlit Eyes
- Marmalade
- Metro
- Johnny
- Fuck the System (demo)
- Innervision (demo)
- Patterns
- Mushroom Cult
- Feel Good
- Don't Go Off Wandering
- Legend of Zelda
- Blue (demo)
- Honey (demo)
- Temper (demo)
- Dam (demo)
- Sugar (demo)
- Intro / War? / Suggestions (live USA 98 at Ozzfestival)
- DDevil (live USA 98 at Ozzfestival)
- Mind (live USA 98 at Ozzfestival)
Know Your Enemy
- DDevil (live)
- Soil (live)
- Interlude (live)
- Sugar (live)
- Peephole (live)
- War? (live)
- Darts (live)
- Sugar (live)
- War? (live)
- Suite-Pee (live)
- Know (live)
- X (live)
- Suggestions (live)
- Know (1997 demo)
- War? (1997 demo)
- Peephole (1997 demo)
- Marmalade
- Johnny
- Starlit Eyes (feat. Serj Tankian)
- Snowblind
- Feel Good (feat. Serj Tankian & Morgan Lander)
- Metro
- Shame
- Störagéd
Post Hypnotic Suggestions
- Storaged
- Marmalade
- Will They Die 4 You
- Know (demo)
- War? (demo)
- Peep Hole (demo)
- Honey (live)
- Temper (live)
- Chic 'n' Stew (live)
- CUBErt (live)
- Snowblind / Dam (live)
- Dam (demo)
- War? (live)
- I'm With Stupid (live)
- Cars (live)
- Spiders (live)
- X (live)
- Metro (live)
- Suggestions (live)
- Suite Pee (live)
- DDevil (live)
- Sugar (live)
- Darts (live)
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War (live V2)
by: System Of A DownDark is the light,
The man you fight,
With all your prayers, incantations,
Running away, a trivial day,
Of judgment and deliverance,
To whom was sold, this bounty soul,
A gentile or a priest ?
Who victored over, the Seljuks,
When the holy land was taken
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
Was it the riches, of the land,
Powers of bright darkness,
That lead the noble, to the East,
To fight the lord
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
With your AK47s, M16s
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
With your AK47s, M16s
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
Soldiers marching on,
Believing there's no God,
Disguising narrow mind,
Deceiving in the night,
We must call upon our bright darkness,
We must swim through the river of silence,
We must break through the wall of violence,
Nothing else will get us down.
We mustÿ call to our bright darkness,
We must swim through the river of silence,
We must break through the wall of violence,
Nothing else will get us down
We must call upon our bright darkness,
Beliefs, they're the bullets of the wicked,
One was written on the sword,
For you must enter a room to destroy it, destroy it, destroy it.
No International security,
No Call of the righteous man,
Needs a reason to kill a man,
History teaches us so,
The reason he must attain,
Must be approved by his God,
His child, partisan brother of war,
Of war, we don't speak anymore,
Of war, we don't speak anymore,
Of war, we don't speak anymore,
Of war, we don't speak anymore,
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
With your AK47s, M16s
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
With your AK47s, M16s
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