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System of a Down Announce Release of Mezmerize By Sefany Jones, Contributing Editor Monday, March 7, 2005 @ 12:33 AM
SYSTEM OF A DOWN ANNOUNCES CONFIRMED RELEASE DATE FOR NEW ALBUM
First Track Set to Go To Radio This Month, SOAD Website to Relaunch
System of a Down has confirmed that Disc One (Mezmerize) from the band's
2-disc set, Mezmerize/Hypnotize, will be released on May 17, 2005. Disc
Two (Hypnotize) is expected to see a late fall release.
The first single from Mezmerize/Hypnotize will be the track "B.Y.O.B."
[Bring Your Own Bombs] which will hit the airwaves this month. The song,
which questions a president's involvement in the business of war, balances a
near-R&B groove -- "Everybody's going to the party have a real good
time/Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine" - with the song's
recurring demand, "Why don't presidents fight the war?/Why do they always
send the poor?/Why do they always send the poor?"
System of a Down will relaunch their website -- www.systemofadown.com this
evening. The revamped site will offer intriguing glimpses of the artwork
for Mezmerize/Hypnotize, much of which was designed and painted by Vartan
Malakian, guitarist/producer Daron Malakian's father.
System of a Down wrote some thirty tracks for Mezmerize/Hypnotize and
recorded them at producer Rick Rubin's Laurel Canyon studio between June and
November of 2004. The album was produced by Rubin and Daron Malakian and
mixed by Andy Wallace, who also mixed Toxicity and Steal This Album!
The new songs are more complex, more progressive, more unorthodox, and more
experimental than ever, while retaining the idiosyncratic, ironic and
schizophrenic qualities that make System of a Down so distinctive. Topics
include relationships, the evils of television and corporate mind control,
the mysteries of life and death, and a surreal experience at a celebrity
baseball game. Some of the song titles are "Radio Video," "Old School
Hollywood," "Cigaro," "Lost in Hollywood," "Question," "Vicinity of
Obscenity" and "Revenga." The decision to release the two discs six months
apart was made simply to give fans time to get into and really live with the
music from Disc One before plunging into Disc Two.
Mezmerize /Hypnotize will be the follow-up to the nearly
six-million-selling Toxicity, which was released in September 2001 and
debuted in the Number One position on the Billboard/Soundscan charts. Of
that album, Rolling Stone wrote, "Toxicity resembles nothing else in
contemporary hard rock," and the New York Times commented, "System of a Down
is light years removed from the going trend in metal." Toxicity generated
four Top 10 singles, including the #1 smash "Aerials," and was named "2001's
Best Album of the Year" by SPIN Magazine. Entertainment Weekly named
Mezmerize/Hypnotize the #1 (of 25) Most Anticipated Albums.
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