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System of a Down Debuts At #1, Moving 453,000 Units In The US
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System of a Down's fourth album, "Mezmerize" (American Recordings/Columbia Records), enters the Billboard/SoundScan chart in the Number One position, as did their CD "Toxicity" when it was released in September, 2001. Since the release of "Mezmerize" last Tuesday, May 17, the CD has scanned an astounding 453,000 copies domestically. "Mezmerize" is the first disc in a 2-disc set with disc two, "Hypnotize," expected out late this fall. "Mezmerize/Hypnotize" was produced by Rick Rubin and System's Daron Malakian.
"Mezmerize" also came in at #1 on numerous music charts around the world including those in Germany, Canada, Austria, France, Sweden, Japan, Switzerland, Colombia, Greece, Brazil, and New Zealand, bringing the first week's worldwide sales in excess of 800,000 copies.
System of a Down kicks off a 23-date tour of Europe this Friday, May 27 that will include appearances at major rock festivals in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Sweden, Belgium, and Switzerland, as well as a three-night headline stand at London's Brixton Academy. System of a Down will headline a major North American arena tour (with The Mars Volta as special guest) beginning early August. Dates will be announced shortly.
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171 Comments on "System of a Down Debuts At #1 On Billboard Charts"
3. writes:
I read about a week in advance that he was scheduled to sing the Stretch.
NOTE: I live in the heart and soul of NASCAR country.
This was bad, he didn't even know the words, if you're told that you have the Great Honor of singing the Stretch, you should at least learn the words to the damn song.
I learned to sing that song when I was 4 years old, I've been singing it for 13+ years.
You know what? When Ozzy sang the song back in 2003, it was better, he actually knew the words.
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sh**, you guys dont know a metal band when u hear one. Though every SOAD song may not be a heavy metal song, many of them most deffinitly are.
SYSTEM OF A DOWN IS OBVIOUSLY NOT A TREND BAND you f***ing idiots. A trend comes and goes, System of a Down has been around for 7 years and has had 2 CDs debut at #1. Darron Malakian is a great guitarist, Serj has a very unique voice.
Call me a poser u stupid mother f***ers, go ahead do it. Ill play some Strapping Young Lad, Lamb of God, Slayer, or Chimaira right after System of a Down.
Oh and Get a f***ing life if you (brokenwings13) are one of those people who go to every f***ing bit of news on the site whether it is Cradle of Filth or if its sh**knot. I mean seriously who needs to spend that much f***ing time on one website...
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Ya... See i only come on here to read news about System of a Down, Lamb of God, Lacuna Coil, and Arch Enemy. Once and awhile ill look at something else but not often. I usualy visit the site maybe once every 3 - 7 days.
Frank Zappa is tight but i dont always like his music
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26. writes:
why is it that everyone has to compare bands?! each is completely different, one targets people to buy,
the other just makes sweet music, with no reguard to who is listening. SOAD is more of a "product" from
a record company. Zappa made a decent living, even without support from his label.
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I don't see system as "product". BYOB isn't exactly your average radio friendly rock song. SOAD also says what they want to on their records, and while it may piss some peopke off, it isn't exactly going with the trend of Nirvana and Nu-metal rip offs. OK so maybe it was saying a little much when I compared Zappa to SOAD. But if you listen to the new CD, you can hear some similarities.
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54/55) by The Bold and the Beautiful on May 28, 2005 @ 3:15 PM ET
F U C K A L L Y O U P O S E R S.........
T H I S E N T I R E T H R E A D I S F U C K I N G F A G G O T I Z E D ! ! !
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Wtf b****? u tink ur all gude an sh** be sayin us fages whin u an sh** cuz u aint eben know our sexUal prefz nigga wtf u tak bout? u be gay . how dare u eben put Bold in ur name biting ofz min cauz u caint mak ur own foz. wtf datz wut i though b****
52/55) by Silex on May 28, 2005 @ 10:15 AM ET
Oh dear, the kiddies are on the message board. Must be a saturday.
System rule, gonna see em in brixton, superfly.
Wtf b****? u be stupid? i writ dat sh** on frizziday it only sez da date in print a$$ machine
alright im done with the gangsta talk now cause its getting stupid
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(54/61) by The Bold and the Beautiful on May 28, 2005 @ 3:15 PM ET
F U C K A L L Y O U P O S E R S.........
T H I S E N T I R E T H R E A D I S F U C K I N G F A G G O T I Z E D ! ! !
he is right.YOU ARE ALL DAMN FOOLS!!!!!! I love SOAD, but the new album is TRASH!!!!!What kind of garbage do they think we listen to!?Hypnotize better be good, when it comes out.
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s.o.a.d. we at their peak on their first albumn,,, EVERYTHING since then has dissapionted me ;{ ,,,,, WHY cant u guys become METAL AGAIN!
listen to some In Flames, psycroptic, Black dahalia murder, strapping young lad , bezerker.........
then go make a new album
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46. writes:
Ok first off, the little fuk head who keeps on posting 10 mile long posts that are borning as fuk needs to stop right now! Yes Broken your right,DEATHBRINGER where the fuk are ya? That sh** needs to go.Next same fuk head who's dissing on Broken, needs to stop now! Take my advice: Listin to her, she knows her sh** man. Finally, the new System is good but disapointing, short, and not traditional System. They always re-envent theirselves but this drastic! Anways SOAD kicks ass, pray the next is better.
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I like System of A down, simply because they've got something many underground sh**ty metal bands don't even have these days: a style of their own.. It's funny to see all these kiddies turning down SOAD mostly because the band is popular, so what? It's not like they can control their album sales you retards, saying a band is "gay" or "sux" doesn't make you look tough on the internet, get a life. oh and don't get me wrong people I don't hate underground Metal in fact It is what I most listen to, but you've got to admit that there are many bands in the scene that just sound exactly the same, that's why I still listen to SOAD they're always coming up with something refreshing in each of their albums, and as far as I'm concerned there is no other band like them,so I say they deserve everything they've got, don't like It? get bent :]
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this comment is to death by trends obviously u dont have a life because ur worried about wat other people are like so wat if people go with trends yeh there d***s but you cant do anything about it and its just childish that u think that way u must not have many friends so u pick on the little people yeh man ur cool f*** the trends ur just a p***y
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ok, im new here, and it seems like brokenwings13 has been on all of the soad boards ive been 2. i think that the new soad cd is pretty good, although they dont have that fast/loudness that they used to have. it really stinks that theres only 11 songs and one is and intro. i hope hypnotize has more songs and is a lot louder.
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honestly, lets face it. We should have seen it coming, MTV 2 won't stop playing their music video-B.Y.O.B
that song pisses me off, gr, the verses are defintly from system of a down, but the chorus line sound like something ripped off of Hanson with heavier riffs....if you wanna call them heavy. lets face it, soad is becoming more and more mainstream....
and more and more posers are listening to them....
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Soad has been main stream ever since toxicity, but only among people who like rock now its geting to the point where even my grandmother knows who SOAD is. its a good thing and a bad thing for SOAD its good because they have tried hard to get this farand im proud of them because i never expected them to get this far, but its a bad thing because as they get bigger they will get softer and change there style even further.thats the only thing wrong with going mainstream with metal bands is there music ends up going soft and even though the main stram and poser fans like them there true fans will lose respect for them because before only a select few listened to them and they were "your band" but now that there mainstream there everyones band and this does not just go for SOAD ,but for every metal band. thats just my opinion i could be wrong.
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Brokenwings13: I mean come on, Mars Volta? They are almost as pop-punky as Good Charlotte, which I assume is your second favorite band. What are you even doing on "Metal Underground" if you listen to garbage like that. (Speaking of garbage, you probably listen to Garbage too, that other sh**ty a$$ pop punk band that no one likes. They have that one song "why do you love me?")
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Dead, dying, kaput. Whatever you want to call it, he's it.
The Mars Volta are good. So is Garbage, so what if I like them? Would it kill you to know that I was a fan of At The Drive-In and that's how I heard The Mars Volta? I've liked Garbage since I was 11. Shut up.
I hate Good Charlotte.
Oh yeah, www.cubsblogarmy.com is one site, but my main site is http://baseballmandness.blogspot.com
HIT IT UP BEEOTCHES!
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Ok so i deffinitly am not on this as much as brokenwings13 is... being that i havent been here since my last post.(June 1st) So.... i win that battle.
SOAD is not getting softer, they are exactly the same as always. They dont make music for the mainstream, they make music for their FANS. You people just create reasons to declare a band "nu-metal" or "mainstream sh**" just because u dont like it.
Oh and The Mars Volta is a horriable band, just horriable. I admit the guitarist is talented, but the singer and band as a whole are horriable. I listen to prog rock but i can not stand TMV. I got news for TMV, Led Zeppelin has been done before.
Garbage is just that, garbage. One of the worst bands to make music. Dont like them, hate them, despise them, they have not 1 member with talent. Sad to think anyone likes them.
BUT SURE, trash a Metal band like SOAD on their topic. BUT when i talk about f***in prog.rock bands being sh**ty, im sure some1 will have a thing or 2 to say about that right?? Thats bullsh** eh.
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ok heres my beef with audience ignorance
the "groove" or perhaps even humorously lame chorus's in songs like BYOB are meant for satirical interpretation.
listen people, not everything in music is so cut and dry or black and white. you do have to read a little between the god damn lines. these people are artists as well.
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first of all mars volta is a good band second of all this is a free country and broken or any one else can go to what ever forum they chose regardles of how they feel about the band its freedom of speech and why cant some one post there opinion with out getting b****ed at
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You say ". . . why cant some one post there opinion with out getting b****ed at," and I totally agree. I'm just posting my opinion about the band, and u ppl r coming and b****ing at me and b****ing about this and b****ing about that. I was just stating earlier that it's annoying that Brokenwings comes and b****es all the time when she doesn't even listen to System. I don't go to Mars Volta pages and b**** about them, so get off my case
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i would have to disagree, SOAD may not be the best but to say they suck is a little unfair. When SOAD first came out with there first album i loved them, but there is one thing i do not like about SOAD and tthat is there a political band and they deny it what else would you call it. I mean ok they talk about other things as well such as drug abuse but then they say that drugs are the governments fault. Bands like SOAD piss me off some times because they always want to share there political views when i really do not care what a rock band thinks about the war in iraq or how we are all getting f***ed over by the government. I am against the war but i do not care what SOAD thinks or any rock group for that matter. another reason SOAD pisses me off is because of that thing the axis of justice they did with audio slave. SOAD says not to pay attention to what the media or what the government says so why should i listen to what a metal group says. i love SOAD's sound but i do not care for there political views even though i may agree on some of the issues they use these issues they are so against to sell albums and make cash so if it was not for the iraq war and other issues they would have nothing to talk about exept orgys(bounce) and there c***s (cigaro).
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what pisses me off is that everyone says "there" instead of their
It's not there new album, its their new album, and it's not there c***s, it their c***s
angry stoner: cigaro isn't about c***s, there's some deeper meaning. I read what it was somewhere but i forgot what is was
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YEAH! its disrespectful!
but let that fundamentalist c*** try to censor your favorite music with the help of middle aged bored washington house wives!
and he's refering to the ego/testosterone filled Bush thinking he can invade whatever the hell he wants. god dammit it aint hard children
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You guys should watch this video i made about the best and worst music http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=The-Best-And-Worst-Music note: i added certain bands in the best band section just for entertainment purposes of the video, not because they actually are the best band. Also, if you like that, then you should visit my site www.devilsaquarium.tk
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i didnt know that people really needed tutors for the metaphor of SOAD ... its really funny ...
... some guy at work said that he wanted to know what party inspired BYOB and that it was probably a really awesome party ... i aksed him if he ever heard of the iraq war and he got really confused ... it was ridiculous ...
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122. writes:
BASEBALL DOES NOT SUCK!
THe Cubs definetly don't suck(sometimes they do, but this is not an ocassion) they'won 9 of their last 11 games. Sweeping the Dodgers(YEAH! THE FREAKIN DODGERS!), despite losing Mark Prior to a freakass injury where someone had hit a line drive on his elbow. OUCH!
SOMEBODY JUST GIVE DERREK LEE THE MVP AWARD NOW AND GET IT OVER WITH!
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132. writes:
I thought this thread was shorter.
Ok, sorry, we kinda dragged on there. It was fun being a Dom though.
On topic? Ok, SOAD's new album........
It was way too short and and it could've been produced better.
Is that on topic enough Deathbringer?
Also, may I suggest getting a PHP-BB forum? It's free and they are so simple to use.
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brokenwings13,
I don't mind the off-topic stuff most of the time but lately there's been a significant amount of spam and multi-posters who have only abusive comments and the like. There was some of that intermixed with all the off-topic chat-room banter, so I just killed the whole thread from a point it got "bad".
As for phpBB, I don't run PHP. I'll be putting my own message board together so it won't be too heavy a load on my server and so I can learn the technical aspects of it as well.
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140. writes:
i liked soad's early stuff but doesnt it seem funny how they have secret messages in their music
and if they are so bad a$$ as so many ppl on this page claim why cant they just tell the world loud and clear their views on the USA and not hide behind real quick messages that you can barely understand
it reminds me of lil kids talken trash when they are running away from someone that is about to their a$$ instead of standing toe to toe and saying what you gotta say p***y b****s only run away ..... hipacritz talken bout polished mainstream things someone please get them money maken mainstream p***ys a mirror soon .... still rockn hard nickelbagnickels
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145. writes:
its not my way by any means im sorry if you misunderstood me its just i always go by one thing in life practice what you preach and maybe if it is just me that feels this way then my fault for voicing my opinion i guess i must have misunderstood the point of these message boards my apologize angry stonner
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154. writes:
nickle you can post your oppinion just as i posted mine i do not think the songs would sound as good if the lyrics were more straight forward and i do not find it that funny that SOAD has "hidden messages" in there songs alot of other bands do similar things
no disrespect
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165. writes:
Hay Deadmetal, I finally got the new Limp Bizkit [ sorry, people who wont to talk trash now, save it I dont care] ''The Unquestinable Truth Pt. 1'', iys really cool. Fred hits some wounds in our metal world. A tribute to Dimebag. And he relized he lost his place. This one is more old school like ''3 Dollar Bill Y'All''
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john ... that album got released with absolutely zero press, i never heard a single, never heard that they were even recording, didnt hear that wes went back, i didnt hear sh** about that album until i picked up the best buy ad one tuesday and saw it advertised ... i thought that was extremely weird ... i mean i'm on this site evry day and there is news about the used and MCR and other bands that aren't heavy ... you would think we could get a snippet of news but, NONE, anywhere ... it was released in seemingly secrecy ...
ANYWAY, i heard it and thought it was WAY better than the last LB album ... i thought there were only 2 good tracks on that last LB album (gimme the mic and the other heavy one towards the end, track 11 or 13, something like that) ... i like that the songs weren't really made in a radio format and they kinda jammed a bit rather than the same old stuff ...
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Limp Bizkit are the Motley Crue of their era.
Dumb in your face attiturde with little in the way of content, and very simple song structures. Some talent....both bands have good guitarists and better drummers with sh**ty singers and average bassists.
Girls girls girls = Nookie
Same thing differnt decade.
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1. cadbry writes:
yeah thats sic