[atlantaprog] SOAD has a new CD

Listen to the new song. Not for the faint of heart.
http://www.systemofadown.com/mediaplayer/byob/

SYSTEM OF A DOWN ANNOUNCES CONFIRMED RELEASE DATE FOR NEW ALBUM
First Track Set to Go To Radio This Month, SOAD Website Relaunches

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 have relaunched their website -
www.systemofadown.com. 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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