System of a Down erupted from Glendale, California, in 1995, fusing Armenian-American fury with nu-metal's aggression and punk's restless pivots.
Drawing from Rage Against the Machine's rap-metal agitprop, the quickfire vocal clips of West Coast hip-hop, and even the surreal unease of David Lynch,…
29 roots·6 legacies
Roots trace the artists and scenes that shaped System of a Down; legacies follow the artists carrying those ideas forward. The names below are the most-mentioned direct connections in the graph.
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Serj Tankian, Rick Rubin, *NSYNC, Backstreet Boys + 25 more
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6 releases·2000-2005
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2002