Customer Reviews
System rule supreme - By: P. Limmer, 27 Jun 2008 
Their debut was stunning - there's no denying it. Mixing power, fury & at times comic instrumentation & vocals, it was always going to be a hard album to beat. But System have done it. Toxicity is an amazing album.
For those that dismiss Toxicity as 'too commercial' or 'too mainstream'. To make accessible music that still has the power & strength that nearly all of the tracks on this CD have takes a great deal of skill. How to make music sound not only familiar but also brand apsnking new & still like it has something incredibly important to say is the sign of master songwriters. And Toxicity has all of thatin bucketloads.
The melodic pain of singles Chop Suey, Toxicity & Aerials counter the deliciously dark & oddly furious anger of Prison Song, Jet Pilot & Bounce. I can't even begin to describe how an album so angry sounds so melodious. Buy it now.
Greatest Album Ever Made - By: Steven Stewart, 16 Jun 2008 Seriously, this is an incredible album & System of a Down are a truly unique band that have become the success that they are through creating music like nothing heard before. "Nu-Metal" is simply a genre label that was createdin order to allow other bands with a "unique" sound to belong to. This is something that System of a Down created, they were a band that stripped away that label of being a rock band & essentially created a genre of their own. Serj Tankian the lead vocalist of the band is an incredible talent of massive proportion, he's not only a songwriter but he's a poet, a visionary & a political critic. He picks out parts of the System that are corrupt & downright criminal & gives us his no holds barred approach to the system. Along with being an utter genius at what he does, I think we can all agree that listening to how some of SOAD's songs are constructed Serj Tankian is possibly a little bit insane (The good kind, not the OJ Simpson kind.)
This album is considered by many to be the Systems best album to date & from turning on track 1. Prison Song you come to realise how inventive, talented & intelligent this band really is. This first song simply points out the hypocrisy of the legal system when it comes to drugs, it points out the convenience of drugs being on our streets & less money being spent on treatment & more on prisons when research does show that treatment should receive the most money from the government. It's a brilliant song that shows quite clearly the intelligence & political mind of the band. This is something that should be brought to the mainstream more often & it's a shame that even now bands like this are looked down upon simply because of their sound.
Honestly this is an amazing album & for those fans of musicin general, who keep an open mind & are quite experimentalin their tastes, then I promise you will be pleasantly surprised.
My Top 5 Are
Prison Song
Chop Suey
X
Deer Dance
Needles
S.O.A.D - By: fast review, 04 Sep 2007 the best system of a down album (not as heavy as the first one but still the best)
Melodic, heavy and never boring - By: Pmgoss, 02 Sep 2007 
This is the first SOAD ablum I ever heard & the intensity of it can blow you away. It has political rantings all over it but can also make you laugh with tracks like bounce.
1. Prison song 9/10. A great opener which explains how bad the prison system is & has the guitarist saying 'I grab my, smack my b**** right herein hollywood'.
2. Needles 10/10. Very heavy & they appear to be singing about a tapeworm to begin with. Then it goes calm & they sing about some tomb of some old man & then go heavy again. Powerful.
3. Deer Dance 9/10. The verses are very melodic political rantings, which is odd because the choruses are thrash metal heavy. The contrast will work for some & not for others it all depends on what you're into.
4. Jet 10/10. I like this song. The topic is stupid but is so full of energy that I'm not bothered about the horse or the shackled old man mentionedin the lyrics.
5. XY 8/10. Okay but a bit samey to the other tracks above. And we do need to multiply.
6. Chop Suey 9/10. The most well known song off the album. About suicide it starts off heavy & then goes into an emotional outbreakin the chorus.
7. Bounce 9/10. Makes me laugh. Whoever thought there would be a song about pogo sticks? Serj also makes random croaking sounds near the end.
8. Forest 10/10. Sounds powerful & intense the entire time & the chorus is pretty good too.
9. ATWA 8/10. Starts off calm & gets loudin the chorus. Okay I guess.
10. Science 7/10. This song does feel a bit samey to the other tracks. Fast & constant.
11. Shimmy 9/10. The guitars are heavy & Serj talks very fast. Nothing new BUT the chorus works very well with the song.
12. Toxicity 9/10. The first SOAD song I ever heard & this will always sound great. Serj sings/screams his heart out.
13. Psycho 8/10. Sounds drug influenced, & I swear I can hear children singingin the background...
14. Aerials 9/10. A nice melodic end & is one of the best songs. Perfect ending.
If you like metal you won't be disapointed. If you like music you should still buy this for the melodic parts & if you don't like music why do you read reviews?
Simply Brilliant - By: Spider Monkey, 23 Jul 2006 It's hard to decide whether Toxicity or Steal This album are the better of SOAD albums, but I have to ere on the side of Toxicity. It is short & punchy, has some great riffs & some very intelligent lyrics. It is safe to say that every song kicks ass, & I'm always feeling left slightly disappointed when the album finishes! A great album & should be part of any metal/rock collection.
