My First Time Listening to Hypnotize by System Of A Down | My Reaction 

Fun facts: Kill Rock n' Roll is about a true story where Daron was driving home one night and it was really dark, and accidentally killed a rabbit, so he felt really bad about it and wrote the song. Holy mountains is about how the Ottoman turks committed the Armenian genocide, and took our mountains Masis and Ararat, 1.5 million Armenians we're massacred, I am personally Armenian and means alot Great reviews love them all! Keep it up Molly!

tentative is one of their most underrated songs, truly beautiful

Holy Mountains has all the SOAD hallmarks. Moody, political, dynamic tempos with classic punk finish

“System of a Down never gets old.” I was 16 when I heard them for the first time and now I’m almost 40…..I agree!

I also like how Mesmerize started with version of Soldier Side and Hypnotize ended with Soldier Side. Will you react to the 2 singles SOAD released in 2020?

Hot take but correct take: Dreaming is the best SOAD song, it probs is a bit "much" with how heavy and rich it's intrumentals are but DAMN when relistening it is just so fucking good

Your music reactions are awesome.

Man hypnotize always blows my mind. Everytime I hear a song from that album I'm just blown away and want to re listen to the entire album. So many funny, depressing, aggressive, and deep interesting moments that make me appreciate their art. Daron shines a lot in this album and it's amazing. For any system fan each album has an aspect that's for them and this one features more Daron, amazing harmonies, and unique instrumentals. Thanks for reviewing these! I can't wait for you to rank all 5

Vicinity of Obscenity is lowkey my favorite SOAD song.. sure they have more serious and thought provoking tracks, but Vicinity of Obscenity is so unique and fun, it makes me smile and chuckle everytime lol..

They really do never get old! They are timeless in my opinion. Still stands up today and still gives me goosebumps ❤ And absolutely love how they can go from super heavy and wild, to super hauntingly beautiful and melodic and make it work so seamlessly. Their transitions always blow me away with how smooth they are.

Yooooo been waiting on this. Hypnotize and mesmerize def had a unique sound vs their first few albums. Really appreciate you listening to all these artist's discovraphies because reactors legit do not listen to most SOAD songs that are not from Toxicity or popular ones such as BYOB. A ton of my fav songs from them are their lesser known ones, many of which are from "Steal this album!"

Stealing Society is one of my favorite SOAD songs. Serj and Daron's vocal dynamics are so fucking good.

Molly after "She's Like Heroin": 'I feel like Daron was more of the main vocalist in this song.' "Lonely Day": 'I'm about to ruin this man's whole career.' Also, I'm really glad you've listened to all of the SOAD albums. This is one of the best bands of the modern era, and they deserve the popularity they have. Love 'em so much.

Haha I love the facial expression in the thumbnail lol!!

Ahhhhhhh my favorite little budding metalhead!!! Missed ya girl!

This is the SOAD album that Daron sings the most. It's almost 40/60 between him and Serj.

What a great series this has been! System of a Down has another album/compilation called Storaged Melodies that's comprised of some of their unreleased songs and collaborations with other bands. I'd love to see a video on that album at some point in the future!

YES I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

I'm glad you liked it. SOAD had a massive impact on me as a young teen back when this albums where released. It's always a pleasure to see someone else discovering their music and enjoying it. Their messages never get old and songs like Tentative or Attack are still relevant today with all that war in the world. To bad serj and daron can't get their shit together anymore when it comes to writing music. There's still so much amazing music out there. I can highly recommend to you the band Mastodon. I think you'd liked them. They also have a total unique sound like SOAD. Anyways, Thx for this great reaction series.

Great analysis as always! Brings so much vicarious joy to see you reacting for the first time to long loved albums.

I discovered your channel today and I must say that your reactions are really fun to watch. This album has became one of my all time favourites, so many killer tracks! Especially Holy Mountains, the title track, Kill Rock N Roll and Tentative! No songs are below A-tier, only bangers🤘

Love System. These two albums take me back to such a great time in my life. My brother and I jammed both albums nonstop. I know what to jam at work today. Awesome review! You have a great way of describing the music.

Você faz uma análise tão perfeita!! Obrigado por ter escutado todos os álbuns da minha banda predileta, foi magnífico te acompanhar escutando todas as músicas. Belíssimo trabalho Molly!!

Thanks for the reaction. Oh how many memories I have of this album

This band has gotten me through freshman year in high school. All there albums including “Hypnotize” has never disappoints me at all including till this day. Hope to see them live 🤘

I've been waiting for this one for so long!!!Its an amazing album but unfortunately it is very underrated!songs that really stand out are holy mountains, tentative,soldier side and dreaming.

Great reaction on this album! Im so glad you got to hear almost all their songs, they released 2 new ones called Genocidal Humanoidz and Protect the Land. And if you loved their songs you’ll love Darons band scars on broadway, their first album was supposed to be the 6th soad album but it’s still an amazing album even without serj

I’ve been waiting for this one. If you truly want to continue your System of a Down journey, I recommend you listen to Serj Tankians first album “Elect The Dead” and/or Daron Malakians first album Scars On Broadway. They aren’t exactly System of a Down but you can see how they together make System of a Down and how unique they are on their own.

Finalmente, eu adoro esse álbum, foi muito divertido acompanhar suas reações, estarei esperando as próximas bandas.

Thanks Molly I totally abandoned this record, time to listen to it again in loop for the rest of the month. Was a great reaction to watch, interesting how you went through it expecting more Daron's vocals, and I already knew they would come eventually hehe

This album has such a nice polished sound and sounds like they was so insane

This channel is great, keep up the good stuff

Oh my God we are finally here! Awesome reaction as always, there are two more songs from a double A-side single they had released recently: Genocidal Humanoidz & Protect the Land, and then you'll have covered their (sadly) entire discography! Looking forward for that if you are going to, and also, their side projects, specially Daron's Scars on Broadway!

Finally I've been waiting for this reaction

I've been waiting for this! I love your reactions to all your videos. SOAD has been my favorite band since like elementary school. So glad people are still getting into them.

always enjoy your insight

That U-fig reaction was chef's kiss. That part always gets everyone. Got me too first time listening!

AYYY! I'm so excited to watch this, this is one of my favorite albums of all time! (Along with the others lol) ahhh! So excited!

great reactions. i'm a huge soad fan. good stuff molly. keep up the great work

Absolutely love your reaction to this album. I definitely wasn't expecting it so early so that caught me a little off guard 😂😂😂. I cant help but smile when seeing your facial reactions when they do something quirky that you're not expecting. Can't wait to see your next video!!!

YOOOO LET'S GOOO! I've been waiting for this so bad, the absolute banger of a close up to teir discog, I adore this album in particular so much. It mixes up so well all of their previous ideas and sounds with the more unique traits of this one, it being the overall more complexity in their instrumental while mantaining an absolute insane groovyness and melody throughout the record. And let's not forget the aggressiveness, it blends so well with the more quiet and melodic elements. The stand outs of this record for me are probably Holy Mountains, U-Fig, Kill Rock'n Roll, Stealing Society and Soldier Side, wich is honestly one of the best closer tracks I've ever heard.

New Molly on a Tuesday made my day!!!

Love the transformation of Serj’s voice in this era, he really was perfect here. This one is my fav album of theirs for sure, going from Tentative to U-Fig to Holy Mountains is a crazy good sequence and my 3 favourite songs off it.

Awesome reaction molly

If you really like SOAD and will still listen to them in your free time I'd recommend listening to their live performances from 2002-5. From my experience - at first they may sound a little bit repulsive but after a few times they just feel like different songs. And the vocals sometimes are even better than studio. What Id also recommend is listening to their covers like snowblind or out of albums songs like metro. You could also check on darons solo career - scars on broadway. It maintained the SOAD soul. And to finish my enumeration there are still 2 more "main" songs to listen to - their newest songs from protect the land released in 2020. Nice reaction video and to everyone who is reading this: have a nice day!

the diversity of the music in this album made for some very entertaining reactions from you Molly, especially during the song U fig

End of an era, it was a lot of fun watching you go through this SOAD arc. I hope you do an album ranking. Keep up the great work Molly!

this is my fave soad album!!! glad you enjoyed it too

I love this album, congrats on 15k!

I'm Glad you noticed Darons contributions to SOAD, he's really the soul of the band and that comes clearer when you hear both Serjs and Darons post SOAD solo projects. It would be really awesome if you get to hear Scars On Broadway.

Mesmerize and Hypnotize are my favourites albuns, i don't know why, but for me it's nostalgic, and the songs are more "night songs" if this make any sense, anyway... Great reaction as always!!

This is my favorite album if theirs, and I'm glad that you enjoyed it too!

every soad album is awesome, kill rock 'n roll is a super cool song and your videos are the best!!!

YESSS!!!!! MORE SOAD REACTIONS!!!!!

It's common for SOAD fans to respectfully disagree on favourite albums, all the while respecting anyone's list because there isn't a weak record out of the bunch. It'd be great to see you return to these by doing your take on a SOAD: Worst to Best.

I love you reacting to soad. And yeah even the covers of the álbuns complet themselves

Been waiting for this one! Hypnotize is my favourite song from this Album. Lonely day is a great one too. Vicinity of Obscenity is *interesting*, for lack of a better description. Looking at your DVDs, I like that you have The Core right next to Interstellar - definitely on opposite ends of the 'realism' scale for sci-fi. Also, physical copies of PC games? very old-school!

Really cool that you react to the all album, my favorite from soad. If you like Daron vocals, je have his own band named scars on Broadway, you should take an ear (it have 2 albums that are quite cool)

The SOAD journey doesn't end there, they released 2 new songs the end of 2020: Genocidal Humanoidz and Protect The Land. You'll have to react to those too.

I laughed hysterically when you mentioned wanting more from Daron, knowing that KR&R was next. Genuinely a perfect moment 👌🏻

Molly, I, I am so happy to see ANOTHER REACTION, and it's Hypnotize!

Attack is such an amazing song that is all. I miss them making albums. Hypnotize mesmerize was stellar

These SOAD reviews are what got me into your channel, awesome content! I imagine you have a long list of things to review, but I think you would enjoy listening to Queen's records with the same attention and appreciation that you have in your reviews. I'd love to see you review some of their albums!

I was in High School when this album came out and imagine one of your first rock experiences ever to be Mesmerize and Hypnotize lol my friends had been converting me from rap/hip-hop to rock, and they started me off with Linkin Park which I really enjoyed, then moved me up to Mesmerize and Hypnotize, which was insanity to me lol But the fact that these albums were so melodic, even jazzy in some, made the transition easy. Specially with how wacky some of these songs were. I knew they were something special, despite me being new to rock. If you want more Serj and Daron, I'd recommend listening to their solo albums. The obvious bummer here being that we can't get more duet songs of their two voices, but they each have 2 solid albums. Serj has seeveral i believe, but I think his first two are the ones worth listening to, "Elect the Dead" and "Harakiri". Daron made his solo band Scars on Broadway which is a self titled album. Then more recently he kind of rebranded it to Daron Malakian and Scars on Broadway, with an album from a few years ago called Dictator.

A little observation: they put the same grunt at the end of both Kill Rock n' Roll and Cigaro. And the "falling bomb" sound effect at the end of Lonely Day is the same one at the end of Soldier Side (Intro). It probably doesn't mean anything special, but I always felt it gave some sort of connectivity to these two albums.

Hey really cool reaction ! It's very cool to see someone discover songs I listenned hundreds of time, and your analysis are so interesting. Please could you react to green day's album (and maybe rammstein too !), especially the first ones (1,039 smoothed, Kerplunk, Dookie), that's one of my favorite group and i think you could love their first recordings with a kind of garage song !

AMAZING Album! loved your reaction !!!

Loving it, but still waitting for you to hear Therion♡

holy mountains is my favorite song ever and has imo the best intro of any song i’ve ever heard

This album came out the same day as the Xbox 360. I waited in line all day to buy them both at the midnight release. Good times.

Memorize and Hypnotize are musical masterpieces! I'm sad SOAD hasn't done much since... But honestly I can't think of a bad song by them! So even if they never make another album they've already achieved legendary status! Another group you should absolutely check out if you haven't (either in your free time or on video) is Streetlight Manifesto they're pretty f@#$ing dope!

Thanks Molly! They are arguably the most important rock band ever! X

My mom bought me this album when i was 6.. she had no idea about SOAD and I absolutely thank her for it.

That's all their discography. Thank you for reacting to System of a downs music. There's only one part of it left, the latest single that they released in 2020 after 15 years of being in hiatus.

The interlude in tentative gives me goosebumps every time i listen

Ah man, im glad the video is here , but kinda sad now that its over

I remember blasting this CD in my Scion xB way back then and all the memories I had then 2005 and 6 😊 ty

Attack is definitely my favorite song on the album. 👌 Wow you are absolutely stunning Molly. 🌹 😍 👑

Personally I think this is their best album, toxicity is very high on the list too but this one definitely takes the number one spot

I am sure that it has been mentioned before but Serj, Daron, and Shavo's work outside of SOAD, is also top notch song writing. Im particularly a fan of Daron's work with Scars On Broadway, as it is still just as powerful of a message, but some of it is just a little more "Radio Friendly" Which usually i am not a fan of, but hearing Daron's Voice on some of those tracks is amazing. They are all master class musicians, and the fact they were all a part of SOAD, is phenominal.

I really loved every single one of your reactions to the albums of my favorite band and the one I started in the rock/metal world when I was a kid, really thank you very much and I'm so glad you liked the albums, it would be great if you could also react to their last 2 songs after so many years without making another album (And which is almost impossible to come out), the songs are "They Protect the land and Genocidal Humanoidz" were made to support the problems faced by the Armenian people recently, it is not an album but those two songs brought a lot of hope for the Armenians and for the fans that we had many years waiting, greetings and best wishes Molly, I will continue to enjoy your reactions Edit: You should check the solo album's from Serj and the second band that formed Daron and John (the drummer) called Scars on Broadway!

Happy to see this. Sad we've reached the end.

It was cool seeing you at the show last night! Check out Caskets’ Lost Souls album if you haven’t had the chance yet…and I’d love to see an APC Mer de Noms album reaction someday. Keep going to Metal Shows! See you around.

Thanks Molly. There are 2 songs from 2020 you could review to see if there can stand their quality 15 years later. ;)

You should listen to the album Storaged Melodies by SOAD. It's a compilation of rarities, B-sides, and demos.

System has alot of weird unreleased demos and bonuses that are worth a listen. Johnny, fortress, honey, temper, marmalade, storaged, sugar 1995, pluck 1997, blue ( which I was later rerecorded by serj solo)

You should react to Serj's solo albums. They are definitely worth it :)

You’re awesome Molly. 😊

Underrated album! Glad you got to it :)

I ❤️ dreaming, tentative, stealing society & soldier side

You should listen to "Scars on Broadway" Which is Daron's solo project

Another band you should check out is Gentle giant they are also out of this world. Progressive, wacky, serious, very very interesting. I think it is a band you will like and I would love to see a reaction of the octopus album. A sound nobody can replicate, the music's a challenge.

In addition to Serj's solo albums and Daron's band Scars on Broadway, it would be interesting to hear the two songs they released in 2020, Protect The Land and Genocidal Humanoidz.

Stringly recomend to you Zeal and ardor. One of the most exaiting bands out there

Brilliant album. I'd recommend Residents - Duckstab or Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante for a future listening.

Loved your reaction to this album. My favourites albums are mezmerize and hipnotize. Don't get me wrong, the other ones are really good too, but this albums have something in their sound that I can listen to them over and over. Great review Molly! In the future, will you do a review to Serj Tankian albums?

It probs wont get a lot of views since it's a smaller band but Daron's band "Scars on Broadway" has pretty great songs as well.

Next you should do Rise Against's The Sufferer and the Witness. It's an awesome album!

Mezmerize & Hypnotize album are SO good to listen to together. :D

By the time this album came out I had started kinda going in a different direction with the music I listened to. Seem to enjoy it a little more now than then