It was two weeks after the album came out in 1998. I was 19 at the time and was hanging out with some friends at a bowling alley. One of those friends had bought the CD the day before and told me I needed to check it out. So we got blazed and sat in his car and listened to it from start to finish. I was utterly blown away. I had never heard anything like that in my life. Went out and bought the CD the next day and have been a huge fan for 23 years now.
3 years ago | 3
First year of high school. I spent my LAST year of high school jamming out to the CENSORED version of Hypnotize and I ended up buying a physical copy of Toxicity that summer. Then my friend gave me their other three albums and SOAD was my favorite for a few years. I'd watch the 1997 whiskey a go go show every day IN SCHOOL until I learned to sing metal like Serj. I started playing bass in my first year of high school too and SOAD really helped teach me.
3 years ago | 1
i couldn’t sleep one night and had heard some songs from toxicity so i listened to this all the way through and it was a great experience of not sleeping that night.
3 years ago | 10
I knew about system my whole life from my parents (I remembered Chic n Stu, Radio/Video, Hypnotize, and Chop Suey the most), but I never actually listened to them. So one day I listened to Mezmerize at my school (about spring 2018), and the next day I listened to self titled while doing dishes. It was such a crazy thing to listen to, I was blown away. I now know every System song by heart and am so happy my parents introduced me to them
3 years ago | 2
I was with my dad cleaning the house when he had this album on the ps3...good times
3 years ago | 1
I was working at Chili’s as a line cook when this album came out. I was 19.
3 years ago | 0
The album itself was the last album I bought, so I heard the cd in the car on our way back home from buying it. Mu favorite songs when I first listened to it were Know and Peephole. I had already heard Spiders PLUCK and Sugar but the rest were new for me.
3 years ago | 7
From PH im always Screaming while playing your song Brrrrppp im your nambawan fan
3 years ago | 0
I wasn't alive but first time i heard it my mind blow up 😂 it was great ☺️ System of a down for eve
3 years ago (edited) | 5
I didn't start listening to system until toxicity came out, so I didn't hear the first album until shortly after, but when I did I loved it, my favorite off that album will always be spiders and sugar
3 years ago | 1
Hanging out with my then friends and sending each other mp3s via bluetooth. 😂 Btw that was in 2009 (not to get confused)
3 years ago (edited) | 4
When it first came out I wasn't born or considered being born lmao but when I first listened to it was only a few songs being Sugar, Spiders, and Suite-Pee and that was a like 4 to 5 years ago but as time went on I got more interested with Soad and I decided to listen to the rest of the songs in that album and it just sparked more interested with soad and now I know all their songs and even know how to play most of them and even make some of my own stuff with a soad style to it
3 years ago | 0
I was in 10th grade so around 2013 but I don't remember what I was doing. Toxicity was the first album I heard and it was way before this, like 2008.
3 years ago | 0
Grade nine 1999 my hippie rocker Italian friend told about this Armenian band called system of a down he knew I was Armenian went to HMV Yorkdale in Toronto
3 years ago | 0
I was 5 months away from being cut open out of my mother. Thankfully I started listening to system like 9 years ago.
3 years ago | 0
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Where were you and what were you doing the first time you heard this album?
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