Later, it was written: "Open your eyes, open your mouths, close your hands and make a fist." This slogan inspired the text contained on the back of the System of a Down album: "The hand has five fingers, capable and powerful, with the ability to destroy as well as create". The text on the original poster stated: "A hand has 5 fingers! With these 5 grab the enemy!".
It was designed by John Heartfield, a German artist who pioneered the use of art as a political weapon, and it was designed for a World War II-era poster directed against the Third Reich which corresponds with the spreading-a-message idea of the band.
When you first see the record, you'll notice the cover artwork - a hand reaching out to you from the blackness. Serj Tankian (System of a Down's vocalist), an interview in Japan, 1999 Your silence is sometimes more deadly than your words and you don't know it." You think your life may not be affecting too many people, but it does. They delve into topics of war, mind manipulation, drugs, society and the Armenian Genocide, but get obcurified with mythological and cultural references and abstract-ism. Lyrics were written by Serj Tankian, their main vocalist. System of a Down's self-titled album is their debut album, released on June 30, 1998, by Rick Rubin's American Recordings.
They draw inspiration from heavy metal, traditional Armenian folk, hardcore and even goth and pop, but as their guitarist said: "We don't belong to any one scene." and "People always seem to feel the need to put us into a category, but we just don't fit into any category." System of a Down is a four piece American band with Armenian heritage. I am not gonna say it's interchangeable, 'cause it's not, but there are certain rules of heavy metal let's say, that everyone sorta follows, and System of a Down were a heavy band, you could say a heavy metal band, who didn't follow those rules." It was just crazy music, and usually a lot of heavy music falls into a similar thing. It was the funniest thing I've ever seen, but in a good way, it wasn't like laughing what-a-joke, it was just so over the top and so extreme: Armenian folk dancing with heavy metal riffs and, you know, wild political lyrics, and screaming. Sold out! And I remember watching the show and just laughing. In an interview in 2014, he recalled: "It was packed.
There they caught the eye of Rick Rubin, a famous American producer, known for his raw and stripped-down sound of production. Near the end of a century, in 1997, System of a Down played at a notable Hollywood club called The Viper Room.
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