System of a Down (Aerials) Kel-n-Rich's first reaction 

#painintheask The entire "Toxicity" album! You will become a fan immediately!

This song has an effect, and emphasis, on life. It seems to speak about the cruelty, unfairness, and selfishness not only of life but of the human mind. Very cool. My favorite SOAD song.

That was nice. Please do more System of a down reactions. System of a down - Chop Suey

I was lucky enough to see these guys live!! The energy was mind blowing

When angels deserve to die!!! Chop Suey.

Spiders. Great song

JUst found your channel. Love you guys, just subscribed. Keep Rocking It. XOXOX🤘🤘🤘

system, the band from my adolescence! I Love!!! Thanks to react.

It gave me so much joy to see you both enjoying that 💙💚💛💜🖤❤ Aerials & Holy Mountains. My favourite SOAD tracks.

Guys you look amazing together... Excellent reaction :D

Kel-n-Rich thanks for this MetalDna for Alexis. She has no idea and she will totally be surprised! Alexis and I love so many SOAD songs because they are all so great but this is her favorite one of them all. Thanks again K&R you two are awesome 🤘🏽

woooow great reaction man i enjoy you apreciate the lyrics..itvis to thik very deep..greeting from chile

Nice reactions. This is a SOAD classic. Have listened to this for 15 years.

Awe, you're listening to my fellow Armenians. 😍 Btw, they use Armenian and Middle Eastern elements in their music. And Serj Tankian, the singer, has great personality.

Yes!!!!!! More System!!!!!!!

This is one of the first songs I ever heard from System. Really good choice 👍😎👍

SOAD - Toxicity !!! I'm so glad you started reacting to this band lol I love it so much, it's powerful and melodic. Many great tunes to find in their catalog

you two are great, give vibes, goodtimes

I've been listening to that song for 18 years now. I still get goosebumps do yourselves a favor and listen too Lost in Hollywood by system of a down

I've been listening to this band for almost 2 decades now. Great reaction... glad you enjoyed! The harmony between the two voices is just... I can't even put it into words. I still feel the same listening to their songs after all these years. You should definitely check out some of their other major songs. - Chop Suey (Probably the most famous song) - Hypnotize - Toxicity - Sugar - BYOB - Lonely Day - Spiders It's worth it!!!

These are the channels I love lol The open-minded and genuinely honest people that like to expand their horizons. You two are great. Definitely subscribing.

Chop Suey???? Great reaction as always!

I saw these guys back in the 90s with Slayer During the release of their first album. Love System of a Down

I love and have even had the opportunity to see them live 10-6-2005 in Portland Oregon and recommend SOAD - Lost in Hollywood LIVE in Armenia

Amazing song.

Aerials is probably in my top 5 SOAD songs, I still listen to their music daily, can't stop & won't stop loving their music. Radio/Video is also one of my favs, you should really check one of the live vesions out! :D

Back when I was a "patriotic American" it was SOAD that assisted in bringing me down to reality. They were my gateway drug to leaning on truth over propaganda. Their songs are similar to Rage Against the Machine. They speak truth to power.

Awwwww...they're talking about growing old, having horns spike out of them and shedding their skin like reptiles while they snuggle. Adorable! :-)

More SOAD buckle up! You guys are killing it.

the harmonization on this song is pretty awesome.

Nice T-shirt Rich.

DUDE I LOVE YOUR VIDS, YOUR WIFE IS SMOKIN HOT CONGRATS ON THAT BRAH ROLL TIDE YALL

Love this song!

This is one of my favorites to play and sing on RockBand.

My dad introduced me to Zeppelin whom in i still absolutely love! And System of a Down is also one of my favorite bands. Should do more :)

Suger and Ariels are my favorite SOAD songs....they remind d me of The Dead Kennedy's ( okay maybe not Ariels) in a lot of their material. Besides Prog(#1)and metal, I really loved punk ,hardcore, post punk and ska back in the early 80s ( typical bass player... listened to everything really). Nice to hear the influence in younger bands. #Painintheask Riverside Escalator Shrine+Coda

Kel your top is awesome!

A few years back I was listening to the radio when this song started playing. These guys are social advocates and play really hard rock. I was blown away by the lyrics, please read them and enjoy the song. This song is about transcending your idea of self. I know this is long, and please read this. I am an elderly American Buddhist Monk who loves good music like you and your wife. I am 63 and grew up listening to most of the songs you and your wife review. Nirvana, the Waterfall, Shunryu Suzuki, Roshi “Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in life.” I went to Yosemite National Park, and I saw some huge waterfalls. The highest one there is one thousand three hundred forty feet high, and from it the water comes down like a curtain thrown from the top of the mountain. It does not seem to come down swiftly, as you might expect; it seems to come down very slowly because of the distance. And the water does not come down as one stream, but is separated into many tiny streams. From a distance it looks like a curtain. And I thought it must be a very difficult experience for each drop of water to come down from the top of such a high mountain. It takes time you know, a long time, for the water finally to reach the bottom of the waterfall. And it seems to me that our human life may be like this. We have many difficult experiences in our life. But at the same time, I thought, the water was not originally separated, but was one whole river. Only when it is separated does it have some difficulty in falling. It is as if the water does not have any feeling when it is one whole river. Only when separated in many drops can it begin to have or to express some feeling. When we see one whole river we do not feel the living activity of the water, but when we scoop a part of the water into a dipper, we experience some feeling of the water, and we also feel the value of the person who uses the water. Feeling ourselves and the water in this way, we cannot use it in just a material way. It is a living thing. Before we were born we had no feeling; we were one with the universe. This is sometimes called “mind-only,” or “essence of mind,” or “big mind.” After we are separated by birth from this oneness, as the water falling from the waterfall is separated by the wind and rocks, and then we have feeling. You have difficulty because you have feeling. You attach to the feeling you have without knowing just how this kind of feeling is created. When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is only water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact we have no fear of death anymore, and we have no actual difficulty in our life. When the water returns to its original oneness with the river, it no longer has any individual feeling to it; it resumes its own nature, and finds perfect composure. How very glad the water must be to come back to the original river! If this is water it must come back to the original river! If this is so, what feeling will we have when we die? I think we are like the water in the dipper. We will have composure then, perfect composure. It may be too perfect for us, just now, because we are so much attached to our own feeling, to our own individual existence. For us, just now, we have some fear of death, but after we resume our true original nature, there is Nirvana. That is why we say, “To attain Nirvana is to pass away.” “To pass away” is not a very adequate expression. Perhaps “to pass on,” or “to go on,” or “to join” would be better. Will you try to find some better expression for death? When you find it, you will have quite a new interpretation of your life. It will be like my experience when I say the water in the big waterfall. Imagine! It was one thousand three hundred forty feet high! We say, “Everything comes to emptiness.” One whole river or one whole mind is emptiness. When we reach this understanding we find the true meaning of our life. When we reach this understanding we can see the beauty of human life. Before we realize this fact, everything that we see is just delusion. Sometimes we overestimated the beauty; sometimes we underestimate or ignore the beauty because our small mind is not in accord with reality. To talk about it this way is quite easy, but to have the actual feeling is not so easy. But by your practice of meditation you can cultivate this feeling. When you can sit with your whole body and mind, and with the oneness of your mind and body under the control of the universal mind, you can easily attain this kind of right understanding. Your everyday life will be renewed without being attached to an old erroneous interpretation of life. When you realize this fact, you will discover how meaningless your old interpretation was, and how much useless effort you had been making. You will find the true meaning of life, and even though you have difficulty falling upright from the top of the waterfall to the bottom of the mountain, you will enjoy your life. (end quote from Zen Mind Beginners Mind)

#painintheask you guys rock🤘

System of a down has some awesome lyrics , I think he is one the lyricist out there. You guys are awesome.

If you want more system of a down, 'Spiders' is my favorite. Keeps the spooky mood of aerials but has beautiful intensity at the end.

Great song , your site is so refreshing, music lovers enlightening other music lovers. Trying to convert my wife (abba fan..., yeah i know) but after a Margarita, she said that is pretty good, Yeah,!...Keep them coming..Thank you...(as an audiophile, kind of, what cans do you use,? audio system?)...Peace...

System is one of my favorite bands of all time.

Toxicity. My fave off the album

Hey, I just wanted to say, you guys have a very cool channel here. It seems you react to a lot of the rock and prog stuff that I enjoy. I may have to write something soon about your channel in my blog as well. Thanks again, and I'll throw in some requests soon (my birthday is not until June, so I'll hold off for awhile with one of those).

I took my little brother of 11 years younger to see Beast in Black in concert. He loved it. Try Blind and Frozen. #metaldna

More system of a down!!!

I love the shirt. It’s dope

#Avantasia - The raven child...#skadoosh guaranteed Greetings from Argentina!

I’m not a big fan of SOAD but Aerials is without doubt an absolute classic. The guys formed in the States but are of Armenian roots and you can often hear that influence in their music. It was particularly noticeable in the harmonies at the very end of the song. Great song choice!

Hell yeah

There is SOOOOooo much SOAD you need to experience!

By the way SOAD is one of my top 3 bands!

I’ve seen tool four times, SOAD, NIN, Henry Rollins spoken word, plus music festivals with Rammstein and Metallica

More system♡♡♡

#DEFTONES! Start with the oldest album. But Change in the house of the flies is a great track to start on. Havin a blast on your channel!

Biohazard punishment the intro is from punisher 1989 with Dolph Lundgren he is spitting barrs in beging of video they are hard core band nice reaction by the way

if you guys do more system of a down reactions, holy mountain, lost in hollywood, forest, and tentative are really great, underrated songs by them.

#painintheask the whole Toxicity album is just amazing. You guys will be blown away by the lyrics.

More System of a Down please

Sleep apnea by Chevelle If you like tool you’ll love that song.

The song Forest by#systemofadown. Beautiful song

Enjoy it!!

More S.O.A.D pleeeaaaase!!!!

Vision of Disorder "Zone Zero". Crazy insane

Porcupine tree-hatesong live!!!!!! Plz put it on the queue lol thanks

Great introduction to SOAD. They can be a bit eclectic on some of their other stuff. Well worth checking out more of them. #painintheask Alien Weaponry - Re Ana Te Whenua #NewZealandKids #thefutureofmetalisingoodhands #IThinkIHaveGivenEnoughInfoOnMyPreviousCommentsSoIWillKeepItSimpleFromNowOn

Might I suggest "Lonely Day" as it completely steers away from their heavy side. It's much more acoustic but very meaningful and lovely. It shows a different side of the band and their overall versatility.

System of a down is great i love chop suey..

You could do some Serj's solo stuff or Daron's other band Scars on Broadway

More systemmmmm!!!!! ❤️❤️ I recommend spiders, suite pee, deer dance, chic n stu

I still wait to see you digging deeper into DOOM & INDUSTRIAL METAL 3:)

"Life is a waterfall We drink from the rive then we turn around and put up our walls." . . . "Aerials in the sky When you lose small mind you free your life"

Holy mountain please... Thanks for the attention. Peace.

More SOAD please. Holy Mountains.

Yep, I think y'all might be ready for some folk metal now so #painintheask - Eluveitie "The Call of the Mountain" \m/

Kel-n- Rich I have a request, will you listen to Asking Alexandria "I Wont Give In" Its a metalcore band and this song has powerful music and a great message and means a lot. First time hearing this song I remember having the surround sound headphones on and it started and it pulsed through your veins and awoke that inner rock demon so to speak and next thing you know its on full blast and your jumping around in your room... OR... something a little slower Asking Alexandria Into the Fire *Acoustic Version*.. that song really displays the vocalist talent and range of their lead singer and shows that even though they may scream from time to time they still have amazing vocal capability. I would love to see someone else feel any of these songs the same way I do, all the best. #FuelTheInnerDemon, #TurnThisShitUp!

3:36 yes

Gota check out the cult. Very underrated band fire woman . she sells sanctuary

Hey Kel n Rich, Would guys please do a reaction to Detroit`s Heavy Metal Horror Show # Halloween - What a nice place or Busted by them please. I use to go a local Concert Hall called Harpo`s in Detroit, Michigan in the mid 80`s. Seen them about 6 times there. Their newer stuff I haven`t heard... Sorry to say they do get confused with Helloween from Germany, but they`re Halloween from Detroit, Michigan. Thanks guys I enjoy watching the reactions. \\m//

They look so cute

#painintheask hi kel n rich can you please do a reaction to The Stage music video,I'm old school and enjoy all the old school stuff you've played so far and I really enjoy some of the more modern avenged sevenfold stuff.nice thought provoking vid and song.

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have you done any Slipknot..? `The Devil In I` is a masterpiece lyrically, in its arrangements, melodies, rifts..it grabs you hold and shakes you..been into metal for 30yrs, though SOAD were the best ever until Slipknot showed up. seeing them at Download this yr with my 20yr old daughter...

have kel watch bucketheads soothsayer and whitewash live them will give goose bumps

Hey guys, loving your reaction videos! Can you react to Section 66 Part 5 by What Escapes Me? That would be awesome, and thanks!

And why not Faith No More - A Small Victory or Epic Live At Brixton Academy 1990

I only say S.O.A.D. Live in ROCK AM RING!.....check also out all the Side Projects Serj Tankian did,for example his Chris Cornell Cover or his work together with David Draiman/Disturbed......you just scratched the surface of System....it will be a looooog journey!....especially the Lyrics will blow you away for sure.As political as the old RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Lyrics.You have to see the Live Videos and the Audience Reaction.After you joined a System Moshpit,you look like coming back from war 3:)

The song is about life, the kid represents your ego, not humble, dissatisfied, extremely materialistic, controlling, narcissistic, ect. "lose small mind and free your life" ego death frees your life from suffering, also another interesting lyric in the song, "Life is a waterfall, we're one in the river and one again after the fall." It's talking about our souls all being united like water in a river, then as the water falls over the edge, its separated into droplets, (our bodies) then finally reunited after the fall...(death) "Swimming through the void we hear the word" swimming through the void because we died, what word do we hear? We hear the word of God. "We lose ourselves but we find it all." Losing our life, but finding God. Thank you for reading my comment

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You should check out my tribute band called System of a Dave

PS. He shops at Hot Topic, she shops at Hot Something? And pet smart. Haha. You guys are great fun

System of a down - Chop Suey!!

You guys should react to Demon Hunter I will fail you amazing song amazing band

Nice react,next react toxicity by system of a down

Toxicity, Chop Suey and BYOB are all must listens from System of a Down. Creative and unique.

#painintheask system of a down - deer dance

Good call! Now listen to ‘spiders’. Similar vibe to this one but IMO more moving.

The Piper Never Dies - Edguy #painintheask

#painintheask band: Overkill song: the years of decay