System Of A Down - Toxicity | Singer Reacts & Musician Analysis to S.O.A.D. 

System of a Down was formed in the 90's in California by 4 Armenian Americans... Serj (vocals), Daron (guitar + vocals), Shavo (bass) and John Dolmayan (drums) ... Despite being a heavy band, the singer Serj was never much of a heavy metal fan... In their club days, the band mixed punk rock w/ thrash metal and Mediterranean music to give S.O.A.D an unpredictable musical delivery. Famed producer Rick Rubin discovered System of a Down in a club and was impressed how unique they looked and sounded around 1997... he signed the band to his American Recordings label and produced their 1998 self-titled debut and put them on tour opening for Slayer... Then, System of a Down scored a spot on Ozzy's Ozzfest '98 tour that summer... They did so well that both them and Slayer were booked for the Ozzfest '99 tour (Black Sabbath & Rob Zombie were the main headliners), and System of a Down's first album sold gold (half million copies) in the US on that run. In 2001, System of a Down released their 2nd album 'Toxicity' which charted at #1... a free concertin Hollywood to promote the release had to be cancelled because too many fans showed up and ended up rioting... The band toured w/ Slipknot and Rammstein the the fall of '01 and were a headlining band by 2002 as 'Toxicity' sold 6x platinum ( 3x more than the debut album that sold 2x platinum in the US)... A 3rd album was released in 2002 as simply "Steal this album!" w/ little promotion (and no album cover) and still sold platinum... System of a Down would go on to co-headline Ozzfest 2002 and Ozzfest 2006 Unfortunately, creative differences between Serj and Daron as they recorded 2 albums started to take a toll... Daron would end up singing lead on songs that Serj would not do... The 'Mesmerize' album was released in 2005 and sold 2x platinum... followed by the accompanying album 'Hypnotize' (which sold platinum)... Those would be the last albums by System of a Down... The band took a break in 2007 after Ozzfest '06. Serj Tankian would go on to release solo records, starting w/ 'Elect the dead' in 2007... Daron Malakian would record new music as Scars on Broadway in 2008... System of a Down would reunite to tour occasionally, but their only new music were 2 songs ('Genocidal humanoidz'... and 'Protect the land') released to raise funds and awareness to help their 2nd homeland of Armenia that was embroiled in a brutal war w/ Azerbaijan.

SOAD is one of the best bands to ever exist. amazing vocals and instrumentals. they are from armenia, but moved to the us as kids. they don't have a bad track but i recommend BYOB, prison song, or any song off their first (self titled) album. but literallly any song from them is worth a listen! i love the reactions and they are very genuine. I hope to see more SOAD on your channel!

"I'm so confused" Yeah, you know nothing yet, go into the SOAD rabbit hole

You can hear all the Toxicity album, its a masterpiece...

First time I hear someone in a reaction giving Serj’s voice the spot on description. Church voice as you mentioned, is due to the cultural influence from the Armenian background that actually turns the whole band’s work into a trademark. You can just look up any eastern church singing and you’d hear the similarities.

Man the lyrics are still on point even at this crazy times

I think you would REALLY really love that album, a complete masterpiece & now I’m definitely going to listen to that album on my way home from work! You got me on a SOAD mood 😅🔥

i was eleven years old when i was introduced to system of a down and when they came out in with their album in 2001. they pretty much made me get into this type of music and from then ive always been a fan. this is a masterpiece

Sugar, Spiders, Boom!, Forest, ATWA, Streamline, Suite-Pee, Inner Vision, Nuguns, Science, Aerials, Prison Song, B.Y.O.B., Hypnotize, these are just a few of my favorite SOAD songs. Enjoy!

One thing I've always loved about his sound, is that he can go from heavy metal screaming to opera to lullaby. His range and the way he glides between it all is still so impressive

this my favorite band, just the best music. Seen them in concert too, it was amazing.

A awesome song by System of the down and love that this was reacted on this great channel😘❤️🤘🤘

They headlined the festival I saw 3 weeks ago in Las Vegas. Bucket list updated. Really glad you enjoyed it.

CHOP SUEY NEXT

hey Millie, I have commented on some of your vids before but SOAD is my generation :) the sound of Nu Metal!!!! Look forward to more SOAD from you :D

For more essential S.O.A.D. tunes you should check out "Sugar", "Spiders", and "Airials".

Mi banda favorita de la vida. Los escucho desde que tenía 14 años (actualmente tengo 31) ❤😊🤟🏼

Their entire debut album (self titled) is absolutely incredible. ❤ love the reaction

In the 90's the rock have a great chance, some movements appear, grunge, industrial, rap+rock is a great fussion

If I had to give another S.O.A.D. suggestion, I'd go with "Spiders". It's got some of my favorite vocal segments from Serj and a pretty awesome solo.

One of the best songs of theirs to analyze as a singer would probably be 'Question!' It has about everything...but honestly with SOAD, every song is a painting with a message.

Always use SOAD song as my alarm clock for wakeup to school in early 2000s.Time flies so fast🥱.

System of a Down rompers - 'Sugar'... 'Chopsuey!'... 'P.L.U.C.K.'... 'Question?'... 'Ariels'... 'Boom!'... 'Know'... 'Prison song'... 'B.Y.O.B'... 'Hypnotize'...🤘🤘🔥🔥

Please please please… react to “BYOB”, “Chop Suey” and “Question,” and Watching to the paralele jobs for Serj Tankian(the vocal)… this guy sing ophera in a special show with a orchestra! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Hands down my favourite first reaction to Toxicity. If there were a hall of fame for first reactions, your reaction would be inducted. Thanks, Millie!

tienes mucho que descubrir con system of a down, una de las bandas mas importantes de lo 90 y 2000

Serj is a special kind of vocalist. Daron's guitar and support vocals are great too. The sound of System Of A Down is S.O.A.D. and their genre is S.O.A.D. in the style of S.O.A.D.

It’s been a while since I’ve listened to one of your reactions. I’ve forgotten how much I like your energy, your enthusiasm, your choice of music and your accent. Great review, thanks for the song and putting a smile on my face 👍🏻

Deftones is a must it will fulfill

Some underrated soad gems that not a lot of people have reacted to are Streamline, Thetawaves and, Innervision. They also do some covers that are Imo way better than the originals like Metro and Snowblind.

You haven't even scratched the surface of SOAD...get ready for a ride!!!

'I'm sorry but I just wanna go around shouting DISORDER!' 😆😆👏👏

I love what you did to your mic lol, it looks so cute and pretty, unique :)

need more reactions to this band!

My kid turned me on to SOAD. She had picked up through her childhood that I 1. loved metal, and 2. loved intense vocals. Lots of Metallica, Led Zep, and a good dose of opera in the house. We were on a long road trip, and she said, "Hey, mom, check this out". She nailed it. Loved and devoured SOAD.

If you don't know: try to listen to the first SOAD Album... I will remember all my life the first time, the discovery of this unique and incredible bomb that was SOAD It's a band to listen to chronologically I think Peace

A different band and song, but, “Fascination Street” by The Cure has absolutely one of the coolest bass lines of all time in my opinion. It’s super-prominent in the song, central to it, and possibly the greatest bass line I have ever heard.

essa banda é sensacional eu adoro é uma das minhas preferidas

Beautiful song, Grazie Millie

It’s the best end of a song EVER!!!

My first soad-Song was "Sugar" and my reaction was the same,great band

4:10 he was literally trained to sing in an armenian eastern orthodox religious school.

epic is a good word to describe it

You have two sharkfins swimming opposite side of your head! 😉 You’re great, love the reaction!

awesome videos loved your audioslave reaction and SOAD should definitely react to Sad Statue and Science!

Kyaaaaaa amei seu cabelo solto muito lindo*---* amei seu react também ficou omito Millie-chan^^

Hope you do more SOAD!🌺🌿🌼🌸

At some point, Holy Mountains is an important listen

The "sick" parts of singing technique is a folk style used a lot in all countries of eastern europe and some middle asian contries, not sure about others

"Welcome to a whole new world"

Awesome

Favorite band. You should reac to other system songs.

Когда то, в далёких теперь 00-х мы зависали в компьютерных клубах и поигрывали в кс под эту музыку. С интересом теперь наблюдаю как они вновь становятся интересны и попадают в реакции.

DISORDER DISORDER DISORDER 🗿💀👀

"very stringy like guitars" would be interesting to very the non stringy variety :D

That ending. Great example to define “Heavy”. You probably knew that, but yeah.

Queremos rooooooooooooock!! Clásico grito de un personaje famoso y comediante en nuestro México don Héctor Suárez en su personaje el franagan (q.e.p.d) Te amo millie desde México 🇲🇽

Nice reaction !

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ MILLEI

chop suey, FOREST (personal favorite - how the same pattern keeps going higher over time), suggestions, nuguns, spiders, suite pee, sad statue, questions.... i'm going to stop because here is the thing one thing i really truly despise about fan bases is that there will always be someone that will come along invariably and state "this band doesn't have a bad song".... of course, there is no such band.... but here is what i will say, of my top 10 favorite bands (of which soad is one, but probably not NUMBER ONE) the do indeed have the HIGHEST PERCENTAGE of their discography to be very good to great songs... listenable songs"... like some of my MOST favorite bands, i have to say you can't listen to more than HALF the songs.... soad, of all the bands i've ever heard, has the MOST good songs as a proportion of their catalogue.... they have multiple ENTIRE albums where i don't have to skip songs

I'm going on a limb here ... Imo the greatest band of the 2000's. Bar none. Listen to everything by them. 😊

Order up for Table 5? What order? THIS ORDER! THIS ORDER! THIS OOOOOOOOOORDERRRRRR!

You really need to do BYOB too and Chop Suey

❤🤘

Question is less popular but most interesting i think

Cuando mencionas que estaba como que, rapeando, en esa época el numetal estaba en su apogeo y posiblemente exista influencia en algunos de esos temas. Korn, Lim Bizkit, Linkin Park, POD ni se diga, todos tenían su influencia con numetal, era más atractivo y comercial a la vez. Aunque hayan detractores.

“This is heavy!” *sigh* *recommends “to the hellfire” one take vocal track by will Ramos*

Best reaction

Turn volume up plz. Great reaction

4:00 Yes. It's church singing mixed with Armenian folk songs. Plus industrial rock.

Chop Suey! Deer Dance! Metro! Sugar!

i'm new here XD, please do a-ha - Hunting High and Low

God i feel old

TL,DR reaction: "Like, Like, Like, Heavy, Heavy, Sick, Like, Sick, Like Heavy, Like, Sick!"🤣

You need to hear BYOB. It's the pinnacle of SOAD.

❤❤❤❤👍👍👍

You are right about church music (well spotted) - it’s similar to Armenian church music in some parts (well spotted)

I want this ending in a loop never-ending ❤

yes. church music makes a lot sense. you'll get that in Chop Suey more.

For me they are 2000 nu metal breed, and they have their originality of culture and singing style of Armenian traditional folks melody.

next: Chop Suey!

Hypnotize next please

All sit down and pray to System Gods

You have to do B.Y.O.B next!!!

Should check out a band called Hed pe, they're metal, punk music infused with Hip Hop. Songs I suggest are Feel Good(collab with Serj from SOAD), Renegade, Suffa, Ground or Killing Time. Thx & keep the great reactions coming.

more SOAD is always good... they are super crossover band... huge range of songs... church comment maybe not totally off... you can hear a little bit of their traditional armenian music roots in their music... their music always sounded like 10% eastern to me... it has a little bit old feeling in that... I wouldnt call it prog rock - but they labeled it this way because its really impossible to slap a label on SOAD.

Millie looking Super Cute today!

1:43 » lol 😆😆😅

MANDALE UN ABRAZO A BRASIL 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

You should link the original video in the description.

You need to listen to the three sisters from Mexico... The Warning. You like the bass guitar...start with Dust to Dust.

when you said his voice almost reminded you of a church you're probably not far off 😂😂 they use a lot of singing techniques from traditional armenian music and armenian priests definitely sing in a similar way! (also just common to a lot of eastern orthodox churches I think)

SOAD - Aerials :)

My favorite song by SOAD is definitely Spiders ...

Those were the times music matters

The church element is their Armenian musical and ethnical background,which is unique due to their chanting tradition,part of orthodox church music.A genre totally unknown to western music,and this is the reason you can't describe it..😂

Best band in the world imo.

SoaDs 5 albums were released between 1998-2005 with two singles also coming out in 2020 but that seems to be a one off comeback thing

you should listen to something from the first album

Yes, it can be religious. They are descendants of Eastern Block Europeans. And they use that heritage in their music.