Mezmerize?

omnicorp

What do you think of Mezmerize, the new album from System of a Down?

John

I heard the new single and my opinion of SOAD still stands, they're ****.

projectmayhem

i got the album the day it came out. great stuff. though clearly daron's developing a big ego of his own. the guitars overshadow the bass and drums a lot, and his vocals drown out serj.

garthv

Got the album a few weeks before it came out. Really fùcking good stuff from SOAD. Ive been a firm fan ever since the very first album and they have'nt let me down yet. Hope they decide to tour here again

though clearly daron's developing a big ego of his own. the guitars overshadow the bass and drums a lot, and his vocals drown out serj

An ego?He has only done backing vocals on any other album and im well glad hes come out to do more vocals on this album.

senordingdong

Not what we were hoping ofr, but good none the less.

OLDYELLAR

Brill!

BleakestH

It's fairly decent...some really good songs in there, but I think Deron's voice ruin a few of the tracks. His whiney voice is vastly inferior to Serj's, and when he says things like ';my cock is much bigger than yours' in that horrible way he does it, it sounds really annoying. Decent album nontheless, im not a huge SOAD fan, I only really liked their first album.

skregs

incredibly mediocre

Citizen_Erased

Most of it is more of the same

Diarmuid

I think it's quite good. First 4 tracks rawk. A few other standouts too, violent porno is pretty good. Must agree that Darons voice should not be a prominent as it is. Still I'm liking it a lot at the moment. The tracks are apretty much the top of Audioscrobblers chart this week. http://www.audioscrobbler.com/charts/

Tar.Aldarion

ya it's pretty good but could be a lot better

seanironmaiden

Got it today, really like it. it's the first System album I've ever boought but after hearing it last night I got it this mornin.

rainbow kirby

It's good, but SOAD's other albums take a massive dump all over it.

digitaldeath

Let's just say there's nothing *mezmerizing* about it!

bombidol

First Album is still the best

Civilian_Target

I dispute that. Toxicity is still the best.

Rhyme

Pretty good album... the next in this '2 album extravaganza' has something close to 25 songs on it :eek:

...Ive always stood by SOAD and i stand still

It wasn't me!

Civilian_Target wrote:

I dispute that. Toxicity is still the best.

Nah, The self-titled wins every time.

seanironmaiden

yea, Daron's vocal's are waaay too prominant, on songs like the Hollywood you can hear Serj's voice in the background and it sound's much better than Daron. My sister who doesn't know System was listenin to some stuff and she thought they were good apart from the singer.... yep, they were Daron songs she heard

OLDYELLAR

yea i really dont like daron singing , way rather serj.

Nightwish

Love it!!!

Neil3030

If I may jump on the old Daron-Bashing-Wagon, what the f*** is he playing at? Serj is a brilliant singer and yet Daron feels the need to drown him out on a lot of the tracks with his voice with could be best described as a pre-pubescent orc.

O.K. so he may write the bulk of the music and a lot of lyrics, but so did Cantrell for AIC, but Layne Staley still sang 'em. Why? Cos he was a brilliant singer.

I hope to christ Serj re-asserts himself as vocal frontman on their next offering.

OLDYELLAR

yea me too , I really really dislike Daron singing.Im a huge system fan I love them but for me the last four tracks on the cd sorta ruined it for me , there the only system songs ive ever criticized and not liked at all , ive never had to skip songs on a system album before but like the more i listen its like the more i dislike the last four songs.

Tar.Aldarion

i love the last four songs...but its such an average album thinking about it...

OLDYELLAR

really?I just cant stand the last 4 at all.

Tar.Aldarion

ya i like em.really good stuff,not as good as other albums though

OLDYELLAR

Na its my least favourite album by far , but still good.

omnicorp

Toxicity was best

OLDYELLAR

yea that was brilliant!"!!defo my favourite!

sock.rocker*

the album is class... on par with toxicity

daron deserves his ego, writes all the music and all the lyrics plus i like his singin and his guitar is mad

Tar.Aldarion

ah his singiing is very dodgy unless it has some1 else to go along with