The Sad Truth About System of a Down

What other metal bands do you want us to cover?

Makes sense. They started with a goal and now that its achieved, I don't see any 'sad truth' associated as the title says. Their songs are timeless and fits every generational events going forward! <3 SOAD

Nothing sad about not making new music, they still chill and play their old stuff occasionally enough. Art doesn’t have to constantly commercially release

How is this the untold story of if you just pulled the info off their wikipedia page?

The worst part for me is that Serj and Daron were such complimentary voices and had a weird competing harmony that sounded excellent. I absolutely love how Memorize and Hypnotize push their harmony so much. Serj drives that iconic sound, but Daron breaks it up nicely and has a voice that appealed to a lot of Emo and Punk fans that were exploring metal. Both guys share a lot of fault. Daron never should have tried to upstage Serj by taking on so many lead vocals. The band reminds me so much of Queen at their height. They were better as a group than going their own thing. They all had great ideas, but none were fully realized without the rest of the band to help polish it up. Scars on Broadway doesn't have the same edge as System and Serj's solo music didn't quite hit hard enough for what he was saying.

You can tell their bass player is like “man come on guys can’t we all just get along and make a new album “

System of a Down is one of the biggest succesful project of the last 40 years. But every soad members continued on solo projects and that's awesome. I'm sure everyone still have something to discover on solo records.

They entertain us to educate us. Many "Heavy" bands have guided me in my activism. Like Black Sabbath, Anti-War music.

I absolutely LOVED SOAD and they dropped their first album when I was a Sophomore in Highschool. They absolutely rocked my world! In fact, they were the first band that really got me into Hard Rock! I was absolutely devastated when they decided to stop making new music! Even today I play their albums on an almost regular basis. I still will find myself walking around my house and randomlly singing lyrics to their songs even if it's been months since I've listened to any of their music. This band could've been bigger than Metallica if only they kept it going. Sadly, we'll never know.

I honestly think it’s okay for them to be done. Everything they did was incredible and it came at the most perfect time in the cultural zeitgeist that they possibly could. If they did come back in full force I don’t feel any new album would hit that perfect post 9/11 feeling of anger and confusion that their body of work did. I’m just happy that I got to see them in 2012 in Chicago and they KILLED it.

A band born because of politics will die because of politics. All it take's is slight disagreement and the band is finished. I'm 58 and Toxicity is still one of the best Heavy Metal albums I ever heard. Still sounds as fresh as it ever did today. Sad end to a great band.

System of a Down contributed to the rock scene in their own unique way. The drums on toxicity are still benchmark to the day.

Daron said that the songs on the Scars On Broadway album, The Dictator, were originally written with SOAD in mind.

I’m glad he mentions about 911. I remember this song and the rage, confusion. I remember them purposely not wanting them playing on the radio. We bought the album and blasted everywhere. It resonated the pain we were going through at that time.

Serj's voice is everything.

We really need a SOAD band again today. Its so painful they stopped. They are so damn great. I want to so badly see them in concert....

The first song that got me to System of a Down was Lonely Day, it played randomly on the rock station NU107 in the Philippines back in 2006. This band became a comfort playlist for me during my college days.

I don't blame Serj hes the vocalist of his band playing backup vocals to his guitarist.

nothing "sad" and theres no "fall" here. their impact through songs and live performances stays . their contribution is huge!

I saw System & Static x open for Slayer at the New Daisy in Memphis became an instant fan of both