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Backup-ed with John Dolmayan's powerful folky rhythms. He is cautiously gliding his fingers across the top of his guitar neck, and then, at the tenth second, the riffs punches and reveals the actual sound of the guitar: distorted and muddy, in drop C tuning. Ten seconds of Daron Malakian's fast-paced harmonic notes. When you play the record, it starts with the hazardous Suite-Pee. Later, it was written: "Open your eyes, open your mouths, close your hands and make a fist." This slogan inspired the text contained on the back of the System of a Down album: "The hand has five fingers, capable and powerful, with the ability to destroy as well as create". The text on the original poster stated: "A hand has 5 fingers! With these 5 grab the enemy!". It was designed by John Heartfield, a German artist who pioneered the use of art as a political weapon, and it was designed for a World War II-era poster directed against the Third Reich which corresponds with the spreading-a-message idea of the band. When you first see the record, you'll notice the cover artwork - a hand reaching out to you from the blackness. Serj Tankian (System of a Down's vocalist), an interview in Japan, 1999
Your silence is sometimes more deadly than your words and you don't know it." You think your life may not be affecting too many people, but it does. They delve into topics of war, mind manipulation, drugs, society and the Armenian Genocide, but get obcurified with mythological and cultural references and abstract-ism. Lyrics were written by Serj Tankian, their main vocalist. System of a Down's self-titled album is their debut album, released on June 30, 1998, by Rick Rubin's American Recordings. They draw inspiration from heavy metal, traditional Armenian folk, hardcore and even goth and pop, but as their guitarist said: "We don't belong to any one scene." and "People always seem to feel the need to put us into a category, but we just don't fit into any category." System of a Down is a four piece American band with Armenian heritage. I am not gonna say it's interchangeable, 'cause it's not, but there are certain rules of heavy metal let's say, that everyone sorta follows, and System of a Down were a heavy band, you could say a heavy metal band, who didn't follow those rules."
It was just crazy music, and usually a lot of heavy music falls into a similar thing. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen, but in a good way, it wasn't like laughing what-a-joke, it was just so over the top and so extreme: Armenian folk dancing with heavy metal riffs and, you know, wild political lyrics, and screaming. Sold out! And I remember watching the show and just laughing. In an interview in 2014, he recalled: "It was packed. There they caught the eye of Rick Rubin, a famous American producer, known for his raw and stripped-down sound of production. If I take that same image, post it into Snagit Editor and then save it out to a jpg again, now it works.Near the end of a century, in 1997, System of a Down played at a notable Hollywood club called The Viper Room. So the Artwork Tab doesn't have the image, nor does the album after the save. It shows up fine to start, then I hit save and nothing shows up as updating. Now I stopped and restarted Music Bee and the couple of albums whose cover art wasn't working, now are coming up correct.Īnother scenario I've run into is that the image I copy/paste into the artwork field, doesn't always work. This is generally done either before or after updating the tags "Album Artist" field and maybe the track # information. I'm adding it directly by doing the following:ġ) Starting one song on the album (one track)Ģ) Wait a second and the track information searches and generally finds a picture of the albumģ) Right click on the picture that comes up under Track Information and selecting Copyĥ) going to the Edit and selecting the Artwork Tab.