Do yourself a favour and listen to this album with fresh ears in 2020, the evidence is staggering, Toxicity has refused to age, unlike so many of their nu-metal peers, and still sounds as weird, as wild and as inhumanly massive as it did 19 years ago. Dolmayan reveals System Of A Down have been working on the follow-up to 2005’s Hypnotize for the last six months and admits they are feeling the pressure as they approach 12 years since their last studio release. Now that songs like the title track, Prison Song, Ariels and the career dominating Chop Suey! are so deeply woven into the fabric of metal it would be easy to forget just how bizarre and challenging those compositions are, but the fact they turned them into genuine generational anthems is a trick that maybe no other band can claim to have done. System Of A Down drummer John Dolmayan says the band have 15 new songs in contention for their sixth album. Debuting at number one on the US Billboard 200, it turned System from hot new cult band to one of the biggest names in the world of music, that it managed this feat without sacrificing one iota of the bands quirks and oddness is a stunning achievement. System of a Down singer Serj Tankian has a new solo album on the way. What else was it ever going to be? Toxicity remains one of the most essential releases made by any band in the history of metal.
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