![]() Mezmerize and Hypnotize both debuted at number #1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, making the band one of the few to achieve this with two albums in the same year. It was released on November 22, 2005, six months after the release of it's companion album Mezmerize. Hypnotize is the fifth studio album by Armenian American heavy metal band System of a Down. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.Double vinyl LP pressing. ![]() This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. I'm Madeleine Brand.Ĭopyright © 2005 NPR. SYSTEM OF A DOWN: (Singing) Everybody's going to the party, have a real good time.īRAND: DAY TO DAY returns in a moment. So why not join the party and have a real good time?īRAND: Christian Bordal is a radio producer living in Santa Monica, California. Their constant turn-on-a-dime shifts in style and tempo from thrash to reggae to funk to ballad pop will make your head spin, and their zaniness will put a smile on your face. In any case, these guys are definitely one of a kind. They could have boiled it down to maybe 40 or 50 minutes of one consistently excellent record, but if you can sell millions of copies of two CDs, I guess that's better than one. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, my sweet revenge.īORDAL: So where does all this leave us? Well, System of a Down have put out nearly 80 minutes of tracks on two pretty rockin' CDs. Trampling a shrink, bleeding in a sink, hallelujah wink, getting on the brink, just your mother's ho, hallelujah wink, murdering a shrink, burning up on my sweet revenge will be yours for the taking. Bleeding in a sink, poisoning a drink, burning up my sweet Clementine. SYSTEM OF A DOWN: (Singing) Poisoning a drink, bleeding in a sink, choking on a link, killing with a stink, just your mother's ho. Guitarist and songwriter Daron Malakian has been singing more lately, but it's still the intense shovel-bearded front man, Serj Tankian, that steals the show. The fact is that if you read the lyrics, there's not a whole lot of `there' there, but they sound good and they're sung really well. Their lyrics often include some angry political content, and since that's unusual for rock and roll, the band gets labeled as edgy and political. Terra cotta.īORDAL: They're politically active on Armenian and other issues. SYSTEM OF A DOWN: (Singing) Terra cotta pie. (Unintelligible).īORDAL: And somehow they've sold millions of records of this pretty oddball music. All four members are of Armenian descent. SYSTEM OF A DOWN: (Singing) Banana, banana, banana, terra cotta, banana, terra cotta, terra cotta pie.īORDAL: The band is based in Los Angeles. For treated indigenously, digenously, human right is.īORDAL: All right, some facts about System of a Down. (Overlapping) We are the (unintelligible). SYSTEM OF A DOWN: (Singing) Dreaming of screaming. And whatever musical direction they're taking, you can always be sure that they'll go there with gusto. But for those of us who appreciate a little tongue in our cheek, the band is self-confident enough to have a little fun, too. For those serious metal fans out there who don't much like a comic element in their hard rock, System of a Down can play hard and fast with the best of them. SYSTEM OF A DOWN: (Singing) The cold insincerity of steel machines have consumed our euphoria, transforming us into muted dreams, dreaming of the day that we attack, attack, attack your fetal servitude, we attack, attack, attack, attack with pesticide.īORDAL: System of a Down gets classified as a hard-rock/metal hybrid, but on their new CDs, "Mesmerize" and "Hypnotize," they owe as much to the operatic silliness of Gilbert and Sullivan and Queen as they do to Black Sabbath and Motorhead. How many hyphens can you squeeze into one band and one album even if it is a double-CD set? How about Armenian-American-progressive-hard-rock-musical theater-punk-metal? What do you think that'll sound like? Well, brace yourselves. SYSTEM OF A DOWN: (Singing) Breathing each other's lives. Independent music critic Christian Bordal has this review. Now the band is back with the second CD, "Hypnotize," and again they've debuted on top. That CD, called "Mesmerize," debuted at number one on the Billboard charts. The hard rock group System of a Down released the first half of a two-CD set six months ago.
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