So people didn't like that." Guitarist Daron Malakian added that "to this day, I think it could've been done in a more tasteful way." Read the full oral history at Vulture. foreign policy "mishaps," noting, "At the time, there was a lot of reactionism, there was a lot of fear. Its 600 million-plus Spotify plays are greater than any single Metallica song and bigger than the two most popular Slipknot songs combined. For one, Tankian recalled the blowback the band dealt with after he subsequently wrote an essay criticizing U.S. Today, Chop Suey stands as System Of Down’s most famous song, and a 21st century metal landmark.
1 on Billboard.' It's like, f-: Do I get excited? Am I sad? What is it? And is the tour still happening?"ĭrummer John Dolmayan also reflected on this as being both the "best and the worst day" of their lives, asking, "How do you find happiness when other people are suffering? You have to deal with the guilt of that." The subsequent period was "one of the most uncomfortable, stressful times in our lives," singer Serj Tankian noted.
It's my manager, and he says, 'Congratulations, you're No. At the same time, my phone beeps again, and I pick up. "I turn on the TV, and all of a sudden, the second tower falls. "I answered the phone, and it was my mom saying, 'Put on the TV,'" bassist Shavo Odadjian told Vulture. At one point, they recalled the strange feeling of receiving the news that the album had topped the charts on such a tragic day. The heavy metal band released Toxicity, their second studio album, in September of 2001, and the group discussed it in an oral history published in Vulture on Wednesday focused largely on the song "Chop Suey!". Members of System of a Down are looking back 20 years later on learning their iconic album Toxicity debuted at number one on the charts - on Sept.