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SYSTEM OF A DOWN - Mezmerize
| Dotmusic |
| You couldn't make them up. An American-Armenian four piece based in LA who feed eye-bulging political fury through Dead Kennedys-style anarcho punk, crunching riff-heavy thrash metal and celebratory Romany folk, System Of A Down carved out a league of their own with 2001's spectacular "Toxicity" album....full text |
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| BBC Music |
| If you thought 2001's Toxicity was epic, you're going to need a whole new book of adjectives to describe System Of A Down's latest offering. Mesmerize/Hypnotize is, essentially, a double album carved into two equal chunks of metal in the studio. Mesmerize hit the shelves back in May to rave reviews, but now it has a younger brother to play with......full text |
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| ShakingThrough |
| Mezmerize is the first of two System of a Down (SOAD) releases due out this year (the second, Hypnotize, drops in the fall). Like the genre-hopping metal band’s previous releases, Mezmerize is unapologetically up-front about its politics -- case in point: "B.Y.O.B.," with strident anti-war couplets like “Why don't presidents fight the war? / Why do they always send the poor?”...full text |
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