![]() For instance, a bass player can change the C chord that the band are playing into an Am7 if they want to, and that’s serious power.” Suddenly I became completely obsessed with it, not as an instrument but as a power. “Well, although bass was never my primary instrument, at a certain point, you come to realise the amount of control that the bass has in music, and what it’s really doing for the song. We are working on a demo.I ran away from anyone who tried to teach it to me. ![]() Right now it’s just me (guitar/bass) and my friend Aaron (drums/bass/keyboard/ and also guitar) recording riffs in his dad’s basement. Musically, we’re heavy, funky, chill, or just straight up weird. The Fuji Rock Festival 2001 version gets crazy!ĭo you need an escape from life? Do people not understand you? Do you want to meet people who also are into metal and nü-metal? Well, look no further (please)! Entropy Heat Death is an upcoming metal/nü-metal band. Although it’s definitely closer to older System. If you could describe System in one song (which you can’t), this song seems like it could work. But I think it encapsulates System the most. This song was made to jump around and headbang. There’s the main riff, the suspenseful riff, and then the main riff again but sped up. Again, like in the earlier System songs, it doesn’t really repeat itself overall. Jack itself is a good song, but these additions make it better. morning, came to take us away…” part, the song completely changes gear and has some kind of Middle Eastern (Armenian?) portion. Then it has what is known as the Hezze breakdown instead of going into the “7 a.m. The intro to this song has everyone playing an instrument and seems improvised. Jack I’m talking about here is the one from Hurricane Festival 2005. Hey if you’re confused about any of these entries just listen to the songs I’m talking about. The main verse has some kind of drum-guitar call and response thing. And then when it goes into the outro “All in a System of a! Down… (and the bass goes: dum dum dum dumdum dum dum dumdum)”Ĭlassic SOAD song. The breakdown with the lyrics “The plan was mastered and called genocide…” is awesome. However, this version is longer because of the outro, Guilty. This song is on System’s Self Titled Album. However it is not as headbang inducing as the other songs on this list. It even has theremin (by Greg Collins) in it. This song is interesting and complex because it blends together acoustic guitar and metal. “We’re the regulators and we regulate! We’re the animators and we animate! We’re the propagators of our genocide! Burning through the world’s resources then we run and hide!”. Then you’ll be like “hmm Holy Mountains– number 4”. Listen to Steal This Album!, then Mezmerize and Hypnotize, and you’ll see what I mean. That’s not a bad thing, just interesting to note. ![]() In fact there are a lot of moments in both these albums where I feel like, had this song been released under Steal This Albums!, acoustic guitar would have been used. The acoustic guitar doesn’t make that much of an appearance in Mezmerize and Hypnotize. It seems that System went from using acoustic to using clean electric guitar for their more melodic or chill parts of their songs. I mean fuck, what can I tell you, just listen to all these songs then you’ll know what the heck I’m talking about. The acoustic guitar from there leads to a heavy metal breakdown. Not that the later stuff isn’t good, as there are still songs on this list from the later albums.Īgain, there is acoustic guitar in the intro and half way in the song. ![]() Older System songs were not always structured in a traditional way one riff could end and just not be repeated for the rest of the song. Then there is the part of the song, after “that evil! Lives in the skin…” that has the first guitar solo, and then after “Don’t you realize that evil lives in the motherfucking skin!” There’s the second guitar solo that has this Greek/Middle Eastern vibe to it. The main guitar riff is kinda rhythmically weird, but it works very well regardless. You know you’re listening to Flake when the chorus is “You flake, you flake, you motherfucking flake!” Jack, on the 1995 Demo), so it is known as both Toast or Flake on Youtube. This song has commonly been confused for Toast, which is the outro to PIG (the predecessor to Mr. Very heavy song (played in drop B)! Simple but great riffs. Number 10: Flake (Untitled 1995 Demo Tape)
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