It's also an interesting look into what the group's thought process was like when coming up with Toxicity.
Fans will get to appreciate more SOAD, and those still unfamiliar with the band can pick this up knowing they are going to get some fantastic music. One's that make for another high quality album. The hyperactive tone and brilliantly out there lyrics is also in place. There is a track called F*ck the System after all. While the majority of the tracks carry a more melodic and perhaps softer styles, there's still plenty of that hard sound and punk mentality fans expect. Guitarist/vocalist Daron Malakian once said that lead singer Serj Tankian "wanted to sing more" and that he "wanted to do all that, yet not lose the heaviness of the band." These are the tracks where Tankian really got to do that. It's not hard to see that the reason these most of the tracks weren't included on Toxicity is because they are softer than most of the band's previous material. System Of A Down still rocks and delivers another fantastic album. That's not to say the album isn't worth listening to. It's not hard to see that the reason these most of the tracks weren't included on Toxicity is because they are softer than most of Comprised of tracks that didn't make the final cut of Toxicity, these 16 tracks admittedly don't stand out as among the band's best work. However, the band insisted the material was not a b-sides set and have praised the recordings as some of their stronger work.Comprised of tracks that didn't make the final cut of Toxicity, these 16 tracks admittedly don't stand out as among the band's best work. Some of the recordings had begun during the Toxicity sessions, but had been left out due to continuity issues. The album had been produced by System's own Daron Malakian, with in-demand producer Rick Rubin adding his Midas touch to the recordings as well. 26, 2002, System of a Down's Steal This Album officially hit stores. So System of a Down, to their credit, made the best of a bad situation by hastily polishing off most of the tracks in question and preparing an official release for the holiday shopping season, which they wrapped in a spartan package inspired by all those home-burned CDRs made and then ironically named the disc Steal This Album!, in reference to political activist Abbie Hoffman.
Now, barely six months after Toxicity's release, over a dozen new songs - demos, essentially - were being liberally bandied across cyberspace, to the delight of fans, simply happy to hear more SOAD, and the band's consternation over unfinished cuts informally referred to as "Toxicity II." Only a few months prior, in September of 2001, the group had unleashed their breakthrough sophomore album Toxicity and finally begun enjoying mainstream success, nearly four years after their watershed self-titled debut had alerted discerning metal fans to the group's wildly original (and just plain weird) musical formula - summarized by some as Slayer jamming with Faith No More!
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Every musical artist on earth, without exception, was caught in the crosshairs of this new technology and the sudden, illicit consumer behavior it encouraged - most notably top heavy metal dogs Metallica, who led the charge in fighting Napster head on in court, and duly lost their shorts in the court of public opinion, for looking like a bunch of grumpy old capitalists.īut another band victimized by the unauthorized leak of unreleased recordings in this new age of music piracy was Los Angeles nu-metal quartet System of a Down, when a series of outtakes from their sophomore album, Toxicity, somehow made its way out of the vaults and into file-traders' hands, in early 2002. The music industry was going through seismic changes at the turn of the 21st Century, thanks to accelerating advancement of technology, the Internet and a specific revolutionary catalyst called the MP3 file, which allowed fans to indiscriminately share music, both digitally and illegally, via groundbreaking digital tools like Napster.
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