127 (tie). Toxicity – System Of A Down (182 points)
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Toxicity is the second studio album by the Armenian-American heavy metal band System of a Down, released on September 4, 2001, by American Recordings and Columbia Records. Expanding on their 1998 eponymous debut album,
Toxicity incorporates more melody, harmonies, and singing than the band's first album. Categorized primarily as alternative metal and nu metal, the album features elements of multiple genres, including
folk, progressive rock, jazz, and Armenian and Greek music, including prominent use of instruments like the sitar, banjo, keyboards, and piano. It contains a wide array of political and non-political themes, such as mass incarceration, the CIA, the environment, police brutality, drug addiction, scientific reductionism, and groupies.
Masterpiece IMO.
Since Krista decided that deserved a laughing emoji…it’s a highly regarded album, especially in the the genre
Just because it’s not on some circle jerk list that rehashes all the same tired albums doesn’t mean it isn’t good
From wiki
The album is listed on
Blender's 500 CDs You Must Own.
[55] MusicRadar held a public poll and Toxicity was ranked as the 28th greatest heavy metal album on its list of The 50 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time.
[56]The album is ranked number 44 on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Albums of the Decade for 2000s
[14] and 27th on the magazine's "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time".
[57] Toxicitywas voted the 27th best album of the year in The Village Voice's annual
Pazz & Jop critics poll for 2001.
[58] Spin named the album one of The 300 Best Albums Of The Past 30 Years, with Toxicity being one of the highest-listed heavy metal albums on the list.
[59] Spin also named Toxicity the Album of the Year in 2001, and finally ranked it number 38 on its list of The 40 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time.
[60][61] Kludge ranked it number five on their list of best albums of 2001.
[62] Alternative Pressranked it number nine on its 25 Best Albums of 2001.
[46] Mojo ranked it number 93 on its 100 Modern Classics.
[63] The album won a 2001
Metal Edge Readers' Choice Award for Album of the Year.
[64] Loudwire listed the album at number one on its list of Top 11 Metal Albums of the 2000s, number two on the Top 100 Hard Rock + Metal Albums Of The 21st Century, and number 11 on its list of Top 50 Metal Albums of All Time.
[65][66][67] NME listed the album at number six on its list of 20 Greatest Metal Albums Ever.
[68] Metal Hammer declared Toxicity the best album of 2001.
[69] The Observer ranked Toxicity as one of the Top 50 Albums Of The Decade, at number 34.
[70] In 2007,
The Guardian placed the album on its list of the 1000 Albums To Hear Before You Die.
[71]Entertainment Weekly also put Toxicity on its list of the 100 Best Albums of the 1983–2008 Period, at number 90.
[72] Revolver named Toxicity the eighth greatest metal album of all time on its list of the 69 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time.
[73] The album was included on
The A.V. Club's list of the best metal records of the 2000s.
[12] PopMatters ranked Toxicity at 62 on its Best Albums of the 2000s list.
[74] "Chop Suey!" was nominated for
Best Metal Performance at the
44th Grammy Awards in 2002 and "Aerials" was nominated for
Best Hard Rock Performance at the
45th Grammy Awards the following year.
[75] In 2020, the album was included at the 100 Best Albums of the 21st Century list of Stacker, being ranked at 85.
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