Perhaps Malakian’s greatest improvement came in the shape of his vocal contributions. “I buy my crack, I smack my bitch, right here in Hollywood” on ‘Prison Song’”

Daron was imo the success and downfall of the band. Toxicity had just the right amount of his vocal contributions; Mes/Hypno took it a little too far & the vocals / lyrics just wernt clever anymore. The more he sang, the less unique Systme became & it almost seemed as if Serj was being pushed out. If System do make any more new stuff I’d love to see more of the balance the Toxicity era had.

http://www.punkai.com/i/?a=57

Prison song blew me away, right from the start.

In my experience, people either love or hate SOAD, but each to their own. The amount of people I saw at Damnation Festival wearing System tops shows that anyone can listen to them, from the Pitchshifter/Latitude fans, to the Carcass/Berzerker/Napalm Death fans!

Skumbo, I bet you’re one of those supposed ‘real metallers’ that’s all “Ooooh, detah to false metal! All other genres suck etc etc…”

Those with musical credibility tend to have a bit more of an open mind when it comes to musical taste.

If System suck, then why is one of their albums being regarded one of the albums of the decade by Metal, and I’ll repeat that in case you’re stone deaf, METAL Hammer.
And also, how come they’ve headlined Download and Ozzfest successfully?