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, ...

In early 2001, fresh off two solid years of touring, System of a Down were poised to become one of the biggest rock bands in America. They rose to the occasion by delivering a defining document of the ...