Album Rating: 3.0
I've been following SOAD for a long time, and felt the wheels starting to come off after STA. In 2005 I listened to Mezmerize a handful of times and Hypnotize exactly once. These albums did absolutely nothing for me then. I filed SOAD away in a cabinet, because as far as I was concerned it was over.
Revisiting this and Mezmerize today hoping maybe I learned something about music in 15 years.
Mezmerize is way more interesting than Hypnotize and it's not close. Mezmerize is a similar album to STA in ways that I didn't hear during the first go-round, and I think I may bump the rating on that album as a result. Mezmerize and STA both rely heavily on Serj's vocal range, bizarre lyrics, and really hammer home the frenetic pacing of songs they perfected on Toxicity. However, unlike S/T and Toxicity before them, neither STA or Mezmerize seem particularly serious about anything ("Chic 'n' Stu", "Cigaro", "IEAIAIO", "This Cocaine..."). The shoehorning of Daron into a lead vocal role was a mistake as well, and it only gets worse with Hypnotize.
Hypnotize is slow. The songs aren't interesting. "Vicinity of Obscenity" is so bad it's good. There is garbage filler all over this thing ("Kill Rock 'n Roll", "She's Like Heroin"), and even more songs featuring Daron in a lead role that he can't handle. Ideally you could take 60% of Mezmerize and 20% of Hypnotize and turn it into a full album that wouldn't be terrible. I have no idea why any band would spend time working on a double album filled with fluff. Peer review would've saved SOAD from a lot of mixed reviews.
Back into the closet with you.
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Album Rating: 3.0
"I have no idea why any band would spend time working on a double album filled with fluff."
Considering both hit #1 on the charts within the same year, it makes sense from a business perspective.
Agree with you on the amount of fluff on both of these though.
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I've always dug hypnotize most from soad cus it has songs I enjoy
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Album Rating: 3.0
That's a dumb reason to dig an album drift come on
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Album Rating: 3.0
Dreaming one of my top SOAD songs I reckon
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Album Rating: 3.0
Dreaming did not stick out to me.
If I am to return to any songs on this album it's the run from U-Fig through Vicinity, even though the run makes no sense in the context of the full record. Holy Mountains might be the only legitimately good song on here. The other two are just goofy enough to be fun.
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Album Rating: 3.0
Attack hits pretty well
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Album Rating: 4.0
A shame that the moment the band starts mixing the 2 vocalists very well, they end their activities in the studio.
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Album Rating: 3.0
WE SHALL ATTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaAaAaaAaAaaaaaAaaaaAaaAaaACK
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Album Rating: 3.5
Attack and Dreaming are probably the best on this.
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Holy Mountain thoooo. Even though they didn’t sound great, watching the live in Armenia show on YouTube was a really good time.
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Album Rating: 4.0
fuck every system album is fantastic.
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yea
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Album Rating: 4.0
great. we all have opinions. congrats.
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i agree with your opinion
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Album Rating: 4.0
I hate you with all my heart
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i think ur pretty cool when ur chill
listen to anything interesting lately?
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Album Rating: 2.5
ive tried to give this album many chances but it's just so uninteresting. "Holy Mountain" is like the only song on here that I think is legitimately great, but it still has its problems. I like "Attack!!!" and "Hypnotize" too but they're nothing amazing
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Album Rating: 2.0
I think most of their discog actually holds up decently well for me for the most part. Not so much with this album.
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Hypnotize is probably one of their best songs.
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