Artist: SYSTEM OF A DOWN
Album: SYSTEM OF A DOWN (CD)

Release date: 1998/ 2004
EAN/UPS: 5099749120921
Media type: CD

System of a Down is the eponymous debut album by System of a Down, first released in 1998. The album was certified gold by the RIAA on February 2, 2000. Two years later, after the success of Toxicity, it was certified platinum.

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 poster is: "5 fingers has a hand! With these 5 grab the enemy!". This slogan inspired part of the text contained in the back of the System of a Down album: "The hand has five fingers, capable and powerful, with the ability to destroy as well as create". Later, it is written in bold letters: "Open your eyes, open your mouths, close your hands and make a fist".

The album differs greatly from System of a Down's next 4 albums, the music being mostly influenced by heavy metal.

This album is featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Q magazine (10/01, p.152) - 4 stars out of 5 - "This remains an excellent starting point for this most curious and underrated of bands."

TRACKLIST:
No Title Lyrics Music Length

1. "Suite-Pee" Tankian Malakian 2:32
2. "Know" Tankian Odadjian, Malakian, Tankian 2:56
3. "Sugar" Tankian Odadjian, Malakian 2:33
4. "Suggestions" Tankian Malakian 2:44
5. "Spiders" Tankian Malakian 3:35
6. "DDevil" Tankian Odadjian, Malakian 1:43
7. "Soil" Tankian Malakian 3:25
8. "War?" Tankian Malakian 2:40
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 2:42
13. "P.L.U.C.K." Tankian Malakian 3:37

LINE-UP:

Daron Malakian: guitars, background vocals
Serj Tankian: vocals, keyboards/samples
Shavo Odadjian: bass
John Dolmayan: drums

Produced by Rick Rubin with System of a Down
Mixed by D.Sardy
Engineered by Sylvia Massy