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Toxicity

Toxicity
Artist: System Of A Down
Label: Sony
Category: Music

List Price: $13.98
Buy New: $7.49
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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 907 reviews
Sales Rank: 220

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.4

MPN: 62240
UPC: 746462240218
EAN: 0074646224021
ASIN: B000021YQV

Release Date: September 4, 2001
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Tracks:

  • Prison Song
  • Needles
  • Deer Dance
  • Jet Pilot - System of a Down, Tankian
  • X
  • Chop Suey!
  • Bounce - System of a Down, Tankian
  • Forest
  • Atwa
  • Science
  • Shimmy - System of a Down, Tankian, Serj
  • Toxicity - System of a Down, Tankian
  • Psycho
  • Aerials

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com review
System of a Down's sophomore effort is a musically and lyrically ambitious 14-song collection that's even more left-of-center and powerful than their 1998 self-titled debut. Here the Los Angeles-bred foursome tackle everything from government ("Prison Song") to cocaine-crazed groupies ("Psycho") in a more pointed and aggressive manner than Rage Against the Machine. Serj Tankian's hardcore vocals and occasional Middle Eastern flourishes ("Science") contribute to the unique, ultra-intense, and quirky qualities of System circa 2001. Unexpected time changes and death-metal-like intensity give way to mellower moments, all of which make for demanding but irresistible listening. Toxicity is a masterful, unusual, and forceful opus. This release includes a bonus CD-ROM that includes behind-the-scenes footage, band commentary, and concert clips. --Katherine Turman


Customer Reviews:   Read 902 more reviews...

1 out of 5 stars System Of A Down SUCKS!!!!   October 21, 2008
Rey Diaz (Montgomery, IL)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I honestly think this album shouldnt even be on sale cause it's just that bad! X[


5 out of 5 stars SOAD's Best and THE Best of 2001   October 2, 2008
Alaskan Ranger (Big Lake, Alaska)
I'm not much into speed metal, nu-metal or death metal. I like music that plays great and lyrics that make sense. After hearing Chop Suey and Toxicity, I knew I had to have this CD. Upon listening to the entire CD and comparing the lyrics and sheet music, I rated this as one of the best CD's to come along since Rush's Moving Pictures. As for it being catagorized as nu-metal, Amazon should replace who ever does that job. This is far from being nu-metal. It's more of a fusion of modern metal and progressive rock, leaning more toward the later. My suggestion is to add this to your collection. You won't be sorry.


1 out of 5 stars toxicity   August 27, 2008
Laurie A. Jehlik (alabama)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

Never received this item and no response when I emailed this person. I have put in for a refund.

Laurie



1 out of 5 stars Non-Existent   July 22, 2008
M. holcomb (Houston, TX USA)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful

The order was never shipped out. I contacted the seller a week after the cd was supposed to ship and have yet to receive a response.


5 out of 5 stars Greatest Album Ever Made   April 23, 2008
Steven Stewart (steveo.stewart@hotmail.co.uk)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Seriously, this is an incredible album and System of a Down are a truly unique band that have become the success that they are through creating music like nothing heard before. "Nu-Metal" is simply a genre label that was created in order to allow other bands with a "unique" sound to belong to. This is something that System of a Down created, they were a band that stripped away that label of being a rock band and essentially created a genre of their own. Serj Tankian the lead vocalist of the band is an incredible talent of massive proportion, he's not only a songwriter but he's a poet, a visionary and a political critic. He picks out parts of the System that are corrupt and downright criminal and gives us his no holds barred approach to the system. Along with being an utter genius at what he does, I think we can all agree that listening to how some of SOAD's songs are constructed Serj Tankian is possibly a little bit insane (The good kind, not the OJ Simpson kind.)

This album is considered by many to be the Systems best album to date and from turning on track 1. Prison Song you come to realise how inventive, talented and intelligent this band really is. This first song simply points out the hypocrisy of the legal system when it comes to drugs, it points out the convenience of drugs being on our streets and less money being spent on treatment and more on prisons when research does show that treatment should receive the most money from the government. It's a brilliant song that shows quite clearly the intelligence and political mind of the band. This is something that should be brought to the mainstream more often and it's a shame that even now bands like this are looked down upon simply because of their sound.

Honestly this is an amazing album and for those fans of music in general, who keep an open mind and are quite experimental in their tastes, then I promise you will be pleasantly surprised.

My Top 5 Are

Prison Song
Chop Suey
X
Deer Dance
Needles


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