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System of a Downward
Studio album by System of a Downward
Released	June thirty, 1998
Recorded	November 1997–March 1998 Sound City Van Nuys, CA Akademie Mathematique of Philosophical Sound Research Hollywood, CA
Genre	Alternative metal, progressive metal, thrash metal
Length	xl:41 51:57 (special edition) 45:02 (Japanese edition)
Characterization	American
Producer	Rick Rubin, Organization of a Downwardly
Professional reviews
Allmusic 4/5 link Kerrang! 5/5 Pitchfork Media 7.5/ten link Q Magazine 5/5
System of a Downwardly chronology
System of a Down (1998) Toxicity (2001)
Singles from System of a Down
"Sugar" Released: September 27, 1998 "Spiders" Released: February 10, 1999

System of a Downward is the eponymous debut anthology past System of a Down, offset released in 1998. The album was certified gold past the RIAA on February two, 2000. Two years later, afterward the success of Toxicity, information technology was certified platinum.

Contents

• i Anthology data
• 2 Reception
• 3 Track listing
• 4 Personnel
• five Footnotes
• 6 Booklet message
• seven Chart performance
  • 7.1 Album
  • vii.two Singles

Anthology information [ ]

The cover artwork is from a poster designed by the artist John Heartfield for the Communist Party of Germany during the Third Reich. The text in the original affiche is: "5 fingers has a manus! With these five grab the enemy!". This slogan inspired part of the text independent in the back of the System of a Down album: "The hand has v fingers, capable and powerful, with the ability to destroy likewise as create". Afterward, it is written in assuming letters: "Open your optics, open your mouths, close your easily and make a fist".

This anthology is featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Earlier You Die.

Reception [ ]

Q mag (x/01, p.152) - 4 stars out of v - "This is the best album of the century."

Track listing [ ]

#	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Suite-Pee"	Serj Tankian	Daron Malakian	2:32
2.	"Know"	Tankian	Shavo Odadjian, Malakian, Tankian	2:56
3.	"Saccharide"	Tankian	Odadjian, Malakian	ii:33
4.	"Suggestions"	Tankian	Malakian	2:44
5.	"Spiders"	Tankian	Malakian	iii:35
six.	"DDevil"	Tankian	Odadjian, Malakian	ane:43
7.	"Soil"	Tankian	Malakian	3:25
8.	"War?"	Tankian	Malakian	two:40
9.	"Mind"	Tankian	Odadjian, Malakian, Tankian	6:16
10.	"Peephole"	Tankian	Malakian	4:04
11.	"CUBErt"	Tankian, Malakian	Malakian	1:49
12.	"Darts"	Tankian	Malakian	ii:42
13.	"P.50.U.C.K."	Tankian	Malakian	3:37

Japanese Edition
#	Championship	Lyrics	Music	Length
14.	"Marmalade"	Tankian	Malakian	three:02
15.	"Störagéd"	Tankian	Malakian	1:19

Express Edition bonus CD
#	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Saccharide" (Live)	Tankian	Odadjian, Malakian	2:27
two.	"War?" (Live)	Tankian	Malakian	two:48
iii.	"Suite-Pee" (Live)	Tankian	Malakian	2:58
4.	"Know" (Alive)	Tankian	Odadjian, Malakian Tankian	3:03

Personnel [ ]

Arrangement of a Downward is:

• Daron Malakian: Guitars, background vocals
• Serj Tankian: Vocals, keyboards/samples
• Shavo Odadjian: Bass
• John Dolmayan: Drums

• Produced by Rick Rubin with System of a Downward
• Mixed by D. Sardy
• Engineered by Sylvia Massy
• Engineer/Banana Engineer: Greg Fidelman
• Additional Recording/Finishing Touches: D. Sardy
• Assistant Engineers: Sam Storey, Nick Raskulinecz
• Assistant Mixdown Engineers: James Saez, Greg Gordon, Andy Haller
• Second Assistant Mixdown Engineer: Bryan Davis
• Extra Dissonance by Eric "Statik" Anest
• Extra Piano by Rick Rubin

• Photography: Anthony Artiaga
• Cover Art: John Heartfield
• Art Direction: Frank Harkins & System of a Down

• A&R Direction: Dino Paredes, Sam Wick
• Management: Velvet Hammer Management, David Benveniste
• Recorded at Sound City, Van Nuys, CA
• Vocals and Boosted Recordings at Akademie Mathematique of Philosophical Sound Enquiry, Hollywood, CA
• Mixed at Tape Constitute Studios, Hollywood, CA & Hollywood Sound, CA
• Mastered past Vlado Meller at Sony Studios, New York, NY

Footnotes [ ]

Before some of the lyrics in the booklet for this album, footnotes appear.

• Spiders: "Your thoughts, and dreams are no longer sacred, every bit they are exposed to a
  weapon known as remote viewing and monitoring."
  

• DDevil: "For those that control the central nervous organization,
  control society, and the earth."
  

• War?: "We get-go fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in
  the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination e'er modify."

• Mind: "Mind command technology has been used by the CIA since the 1950s as part of
  their not-lethal, covert weapons program."

• Peephole: "The February 18 edition of United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland's NEW SCIENTIST Magazine reports that the
  Geneva-based Globe Health Organization suppressed, under political force per unit area,
  a report which confirmed that marijuana is safer than either alcohol or tobacco."

• Darts: "Why do old societies hold the pantheon of 12 gods to exist true,
  while mod societies by and large take one God?"

• P.L.U.C.Thousand.: "Organisation of a Down would like to dedicate this song to the memory of the 1.5
  million victims of the Armenian Genocide, perpetrated by the Turkish
  Government in 1915."

Booklet bulletin [ ]

In the booklet, underneath the band member's photos, the text reads in all capitals: "Announce your anthems on the ceiling. We trip the light fantastic, annexed by ability. Casual neckties embrace, the hungry hunger further, images rule through the media, commercial Orwellianism, producing unveiled icebergs, running transparent electrical cables, curving string ensembles, witnessed by hangings from flagpoles of souls avenged by Dr. Clock. Fresh pigment, naked melting figures mixing the revolution against T.V. sentencing, at the easily of brutal men and their military business world. Let us instigate the revolt, downward with the system! "

Nautical chart performance [ ]

Album [ ]

Twelvemonth	Chart	Position
1999	The Billboard 200	124
	Tiptop Heatseekers	ane

Singles [ ]

Twelvemonth	Single	Chart	Position
1999	"Sugar"	Mainstream Stone Tracks	28
		Modern Stone Tracks	31
2000	"Spiders"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	25
		Modern Rock Tracks	38

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