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System of a down "Mezmerizing" More and More Fans
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| Posted by slicknickshady on Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 08:42 PM |
Once upon a time, rock bands atop Billboard's album chart relied on good looks, cotton-candy lyrics and pop sensibility that was short on substance and long on style. (Think Def Leppard.) But when grunge hurtled into the music atmosphere in the early '90s, those bands quickly became dinosaurs and were all but wiped out.
Since then, chart-topping rock acts have exhibited remarkable diversity. This year, Nine Inch Nails, Rob Thomas, Audioslave and the Dave Matthews Band have all debuted at No. 1 -hardly groups you'd expect to see on tour together.
Now you can add System of a Down to that list. After steadily garnering more and more critical praise since its arrival in 1998, System now releases its 4th album, Mesmerize. It proves that the group's singular style (with a dose of vitriolic politics) has connected with a new generation of fans—in a big way. |
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48 hours inside the freak show! - Kerrang interview
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| Posted by soady on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 06:13 PM |
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Denver, Colorado.
Wednesday April 27th
10:00 Tickets for the second date of
SOAD's so-called ‘Guerrilla-Tour’ go on sale at Denver’s 1200 capacity
Ogden theatre. Having seen an advert in the local music paper or heard
announcements on the local rock radio station, an estimated 3000 kids
are here in sub-zero temperature, the first having arrived 30 hours ago.
Many of the fans in line have bunked off school or called in sick to
work to be here. one fan who understandably prefers to remain nameless,
has gone AWOL from the military for the day. 10:27 System of
a down tickets sell out. Unfortunately, due to a venue fuck up, people
have been allowed to buy 6 tickets each instead of two; so many of them
have falled into the hands of scumbag touts. Prepare for bidding war!
17:00 $30
tickets are now exchanging hands for up to $400.
Having abandoned the
venues dressing room because it’s too cold to stay in, SOAD front man
Serj Tankian shows up on the bands plush tour bus, parked across the
street around the back of a dodgy-looking 7-eleven store. He is not
exactly chuffed to hear about the ticket touts, but admits that is not
the first time it has happened. |
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SOAD Don't Know What Mezmerize Is All About, Either!
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| Posted by ZAk on Friday, May 20, 2005 - 10:39 AM |
| Ever since System of a Down emerged in 1998 with their
self-titled debut, many people have struggled to come up with a name for
the band's unique blend of sounds. To our credit, System have never been
much help. "It's funny, I think we are one of the first bands to
figure out how to be aggressive and poppy," guitarist Daron Malakian
mused midway through a recent interview backstage at the band's Souls
2005 benefit
"We're proppy," bassist Shavo Odadjian interrupted. "That's
it! We're proppy!"
So maybe it's best the band just continue on without a descriptive
adjective. Ambiguity is, after all, the essential component to the
lyrics accompanying System's insane mix of metal, world music and
dance-pop. |
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Big Top Metal - Rolling Stone June 2 '02
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| Posted by musicbox on Thursday, May 19, 2005 - 06:16 PM |
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<SPAN class=pn-normal>Inside the heads of brokenhearted metal gods, System of a Down - How will System of a Down follow up their strangest, angriest and most awesome album of prog-metal yet? With and even better album in six months. Now if they could only ment their broken hearts
"Good things happen in my life in tens," says Daron Malakian. "I was born in 1975. My dad stopped drinking in 1985. The band formed in 1995. And" -- long, nervous pause -- "I guess something good is going to happen this year."
Daron,
29, is the guitarist in one of the most musically accomplished and
politically conscious mainstream rock bands of the past decade: the
Armenian-American parade-metal purveyors System of a Down. He is sitting
in his deceptively suburban-looking home in the secluded hills of
Glendale, California, surrounded by body parts. There are at least a
hundred skulls, skeletons and horror-movie figurines scattered around
his two-story pad. Two of the skulls are human -- one was a present
from his girlfriend, model Jessica Miller, from their first Christmas
together |
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Modern Drummer Magazine Interview
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| Posted by ZAk on Monday, May 16, 2005 - 05:27 PM |
“Ever since I was a kid, I knew
I was destined for this,” says System Of A Down drummer John
Dolmayan. “I used to go to shows and think, ‘I’m going to be on that stage
one day.’ It’s really easy for me to say that now, but I knew it back then. And
if you talk to people who knew me back then, they’ll tell you the same thing.”
The “this” Dolmayan is speaking of is his place in life today as an immensely
successful modern rock drummer for the multi-platinum Los Angeles–based group
System Of A Down.
Nearly 4 years ago, Dolmayan and his band released the Rick Rubin–produced
Toxicity, a blistering collection of material that was anything but
the traditional sophomore slump. It offered some of the wildest and most
intriguing singles to hit modern rock airwaves in recent memory. (If you doubt
this, go back and give a listen to “Chop Suey,” “Aerials,” and “Psycho.”) |
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