BLACK VINYL

System of a Down's self-titled major-label debut finds the Los Angeles band consolidating its gothic alt-metal, sharpening its deadly riffs, strengthening its brutal rhythms, and adding muscle to its attack. The band differentiates itself from the legions of Southern Californian alt-metalheads by emphasizing its Armenian musical heritage, which gives the music an eerie, otherworldly quality. Part of the success of System of a Down lies with producer Rick Rubin, who helps give the band focus, but ultimately the record works because of the band itself, since they have contributed a set of strong songs that illustrates this is a band that relies on smarts as well as sound.

A1        Suite-Pee  2:31
A2        Know  2:56
A3        Sugar  2:33
A4        Suggestions  2:44
A5        Spiders  3:35
A6        DDevil  1:43
A7        Soil  3:25
B1        War?  2:40
B2        Mind  6:16
B3        Peephole  4:04
B4        CUBErt  1:49
B5        Darts  2:42
B6        P.L.U.C.K. 3:38