“We’ve really fought. In one day something can blow up into a full-scale war. There’s been days I’ve quit the band”: how System Of A Down turned friction into genius with Toxicity

System Of A Down standing in front of some shuttered doors.

System Of A Down’s second album, 2001’s Toxicity, turned them into one of America’s biggest – and most inventive – metal bands. As the band prepared to release the album, Metal Hammer joined them in their hometown of Los Angeles to get the story behind the album that would usher metal into the 21st century.  

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