The self-titled debut was heavier and Steal This Album! was quirkier, but Toxicity took everything that was great about System Of A Down and moulded it into a compact, near-perfect beast of an album. Yes, it’s the obvious choice but we’re not going to be contrary just for the sake of it.

Who knows whether we’ll ever get that elusive sixth LP, but for now here are all System Of A Down's albums ranked from worst to best… This ranking doesn’t go from awful to good, but rather from still-pretty-bloody-good-thank-you-all-the-same to brilliant. It’s worth noting that, despite the unconventional genesis of some of the individual entries, there isn’t a single duff album in System's compact back-catalogue. Just five albums, one of which was a platter of leftovers (sort of) and another two of which were essentially different slices of a double-album.

album charts as the band exploded all around the world.Īlthough SOAD have toured sporadically over the past decade, a much-anticipated and occasionally teased sixth album has never materialised. It certainly didn’t sound like something built for mainstream consumption, but three of their five studio albums would go on to debut at Number One in the U.S. They might have been lumped in with the nu-metal set, but their politicised, idiosyncratic and frequently barking mad noise sounded like no-one else on the planet.

For a brief time there, around the turn of the century, System Of A Down were one of the biggest and arguably the single most important metal bands in the world.

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