Many of the outtakes were released as Steal This Album after preliminary versions of the cuts leaked to the internet. They recorded all of them before narrowing the track list to the 14 cuts that worked best on Toxicity. Malakian and Tankian wrote 40 songs and narrowed them down to the 33 they liked best before they entered the studio. The band started out with 33 songs that they had to whittle down Shavo and Serj were looking at us saying, 'ABoth of us were sitting there laughing, saying, 'This is one of the coolest moments in the history of our band.'"Ĥ. My lip was all cut up, and I took a microphone stand and hit him across the head and his head was all bashed in. "There were times when we fuckin' threw down," Malakian said. Sometimes those conflicts became physical. Malakian and drummer John Dolmayan were so passionate about their music and ideas that they frequently argued. Two members of System came to blows in the studio "I wanted to take a different approach on the Manson thing and show a different side of it."ģ. "I almost wanted to shine a different light on somebody that people usually put together with murder and blood and horrible things," he explained. My interest was in the way he articulated his thoughts and his views on society, not in the murders." He confirmed this perspective when he talked to Revolver earlier this year. "I titled the song #ATWA after Manson's environmental organization. "During the time I was writing the Toxicity album, Manson's interviews and music were a big influence on me as an artist," Malakian wrote on Instagram after Manson died in 2017. The song "A.T.W.A." stands for "Air, Trees, Water, Animals" or 'All the Way Alive," both of which phrases were used by Charles Manson and his "family" as terms to reference environmental awareness. Daron Malakian took inspiration from Charles Manson for the song "A.T.W.A." At the same time, I wanted to retain our style so I put a lot of the ideas together."Ģ. I didn't want to write 'Pluck' again or 'Suite-Pee' again. "With that, I didn't want to repeat myself. "I wrote that in the back of the RV," he revealed in Louder Than Hell. Guitarist Daron Malakian lay the foundation for Toxicity by writing the album's explosive, schizophrenic first single "Chop Suey!" while the band was on the road. System of a Down were excited to be touring for their first album, but also eager to prove that they were capable of writing songs with even greater music depth and cohesion than those on its debut. Toxicity's lead single "Chop Suey!" was written in the back of an RV while the band was on the road in support of their first album With Toxicity, System wanted to make a more musically diverse, melodic infectious and deeply meaningful album that still adhered to their offbeat and sometimes nonsensical aesthetic.ġ. The pressure was high: System were following up a self-titled debut that had won them many fans in its own right, and wanted to up the creative ante - a tough task considering that their inventive first LP sounded something like a cross between Slayer and Dead Kennedys, with exotic Mideastern melodies weaved into the mix. In fact, there was a time when the primary songwriters, guitarist Daron Malakian and vocalist Serj Tankian, were mired in dozens of songs and it seemed like the record might never come together at all - not to mention, that the band might fracture in the process of trying to get it done. When System of a Down released their second album, Toxicity, on September 4th, 2001 they had no idea it would break them out of the metal underworld and turn them into a multi-platinum radio-rock band. Shop for heavy-music vinyl, apparel, toys and more - including classic System of a Down albums - over at our store.
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