No shock here really. Toxicity ends with 134 seconds of bongo-banging, instrumental jamming. Arto is a nice enough way to end the album, though it’s barely really even a song – and it’s the only ...

Released back in 2001, the album and its brilliant blending of potent political sentiments, powerful heavy metal arrangements, and ingeniously catchy pop melodies took the world by storm, climbing to ...

We’re about two decades removed from the peak of the nu metal era, an era that’s been re-entering the current music discourse in the forms of nostalgia, continued hatred, and re-evaluations, ...

System Of A Down’s 2001 album Toxicity was home to the song “Needles” and the somewhat controversial lyric “Pull the tapeworm out of your ass.” “Originally, the chorus was ‘Pull the tapeworm out of my ...

System of a Down have never shied away from dealing with serious topics and on their second album Toxicity, which came out just one week prior to September 11, 2001, the group tackled many different ...

The band's members, manager and producer Rick Rubin recall how the record's message, a televised riot and, tragically, 9/11 converged around its release. System of a Down released “Toxicity,” its ...

People hate songs about politics even when they’re by political bands. It’s a strange phenomenon. There’s much confusion about what makes a political band. It can easily be determined by reading or ...