Happy anniversary to System of a Down's Hypnotize album. In 2001, System of a Down reached new heights with their Toxicity album, but rather than rush into a follow-up, the band opted to release an ...
In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. There is dark ...
The premise of the CW's Hypnotize Me, based on the UK series You're Back In The Room, is both simple and hard to believe. Each episode, hypnotist Keith Barry puts four contestants into a hypnotic ...
Randy Alpert tells Billboard about his memories of composing and recording "Rise," why "Hypnotize" was the first sample request that he actually cleared, and how Biggie's song has helped his own song… ...
Listening to System of a Down, one feels like David Bowie with his bank of television screens in The Man Who Fell to Earth, blitzed with information. The Armenian-American quartet switch styles, from ...
In the past six months, System of a Down have doubled their album output: In May, the critically successful quartet delivered Mezmerize, an 11-song, 36-minute blast of hyper-aggressive riffing, ...
As has been the marketing ploy in 2005, System Of A Down went for the double album broken down into two single albums released six months apart. The first, Mesmerize, dropped in June. Now comes ...