Rare footage of System Of A Down rehearsing in 1998, has been uploaded to YouTube.
In two videos uploaded by the channel The System Of A Down Live Archive, you can see the band rehearsing for shows in Sacramento, California.
The footage was capture just months after the release of System Of A Down's self-titled debut. Despite this, the band played the Toxicity track X at the shows, meaning that fans got a preview of the game-changing record, three years ahead of its release!
System Of A Down's second studio album, Toxicity turned 21 this year. Yes, my fellow elder Millenial Maniacs, we really are that old! A genuinely game-changing record, featuring a fusion of metal and alternative sounds with folk, progressive rock, jazz, traditional Armenian and greek musical stylings, Toxicity blasted the American-Armenian alt/nu-metal band to unforeseeable mainstream prominence.
A commercial and critical success, the album peaked at #1 on the Billboard Charts and has sold over 12 million units worldwide. It remains one of the most unique and immediately identifiable metal albums of all time. Toxicity's politicized lyrics focussing on mass incarceration, environmental terrorism, police brutality, scientific reductionism, drug addiction and questionable actions of the CIA, inspired a new generation of activists in the metal scene, educating a generation of metalheads while simultaneously creating controversy that helped keep the album at the forefront of the alternative music press.
Much of Toxicity's initial success came courtesy of the breakthrough first single Chop Suey, so to celebrate and illustrate the impact of this transformative metal masterpiece, we've compiled six sick covers of Chop Suey that showcase the wide-ranging impact and influence of this landmark System Of A Down release.
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