American metal band from Los Angeles whose members are of Armenian heritage — who produced Toxicity (2001), one of the best-selling metal albums of the decade — and who used their platform for Armenian Genocide awareness.
Demonstrated that ethnically specific cultural identity can be a source of musical distinctiveness in heavy music — the Armenian musical scales and political subject matter giving System of a Down a unique sonic and thematic identity within metal.
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