System Of A Down's newest release, Toxicity, is nothing to be scoffed at. Unfortunately, I found one part of the album to go against my personal taste, but unless you were one of the people fortunate enough to receive a rough mix of the track Prison Song on CD far before the release, you wouldn't know the difference anyway…all this rambling just means that I liked the rough mix better than the album version, but in regards to structure and lyrics, the song is still a great track indeed.

With that out of the way, I'm not sure what to say about this album. It's strangely addicting…I'm sure if I was a drug user I'd be able to describe this feeling better. A typical review of an album involves me listening to it all the way through at least once before anything else, but I found myself playing the second track over a few times before continuing. The chorus in the track Needles loops itself in a way that you find yourself just waiting for it to play again, which is by no means a bad thing. The verse is hard and choppy, with a flowing and pounding prechorus to blend everything together.

A few hammering tracks later and we come across the track Chop Suey!, which I not review only because I'm sure if you're reading this in the first place, you've most likely heard this incredible blend of acoustic guitar, rhythmic drum beats, and inspiring lyrics.

Continue deeper into the CD, and you stumble across the track ATWA. It starts of with a clean, slow guitar line, and in a short time the vocals join in. Then the chorus kicks in, keeping the same chord progressions and the same slow mood of the song, but with that heavy-metal touch to it. This song takes my vote as one of the best on the album.

The rest of the CD is hard to put into great detail, so I'm leaving you with the knowledge that any fan of heavy metal, hard rock, or any rock for that matter, should grab a copy of the newest album from System of a Down, which is sure to please fans of just about any of the many subcategories of rock there are now.