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Title: Toxicity
Artist: System of a Down
Genre: No Genre Specified

Tracks:
1 - Prison Song - 3:21
2 - Needles - 3:13
3 - Deer Dance - 2:55
4 - Jet Pilot - 2:06
5 - X - 1:58
6 - Chop Suey! - 3:30 -
7 - Bounce - 1:54
8 - Forest - 4:00
9 - ATWA - 2:56
10 - Science - 2:43
11 - Shimmy - 1:51
12 - Toxicity - 3:38 -
13 - Psycho - 3:45
14 - Aerials / Arto - 6:11 -

Overview:
Toxicity is the second album by Armenian-American alternative metal band System of a Down. Produced by Rick Rubin, Toxicity was released on September 4, 2001 by American Recordings, debuting at number 1 on both the United States, with 220,000 copies, and number 1 on the Canadian charts. Toxicity has sold over 12 million copies worldwide and is multi-platinum in the United States, making it their best-selling album there. The band have mentioned the ironic predicament of the album being released exactly one week before 9/11 on numerous occasions.
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Toxicity is an album that I can throw on and listen to from front to back.

Starting off with (#01) Prison Song, it sets an anti-establishment tone, covering how minor offenses can ruin your life with long prison sentences over rehabilitation or other methods of punishment, such as community service. (#03) Deer Dance goes on to paint that same establishment as pushing their weight around, whether through peace or not.

I always took (#05) X as a song that spoke of an invading army of lands where they're not wanted.

(#06) Chop Suey! takes the cake here as I believe it was the first single that dropped from this album. To me, it feels like it's a song about good people going through difficult times and only seeing one way out, with the empathetic lyrics, "I cry when angels deserve to die."

I don't believe that (#07) Bounce has much meaning to it besides the adult-themed undertones, but it is a fun song to still let play through.

(#09) ATWA I feel is about someone with no hope and in despair, not understanding that there are people out there who do care.

The song (#10) Science I believe is about people falling for and only following empirical data and losing touch with conceptual data, or higher beings than science, that is.

(#11) Shimmy is another one of those fun songs. It's about getting an education to get farther in life. However, I believe that's not the only important aspect of becoming successful in life. I believe that it also has an underlying message that everyone is educated the same, so conformity in all beliefs might end up the same.

Another single from this album was (#12) Toxicity. Recently, I read the vocalist Serj Tankian's take on the lyrics of "somewhere between the silence and sleep" essentially being the time between when your head hits the pillow to a full-blown dream that can spiral out of control into a nightmare. That completely changed my outlook on the song. Between the silence and sleep is the perfect mental state.

And finally, (#14) Ariels is a song that I believe is about finding peace for yourself.

5/5 Album from SOAD
 
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