System of a Down - System of a Down (New vinyl)

On their self-titled debut, System of a Down sound like they were beamed in from another dimension where they only had access to “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Slayer, the Dead Kennedys and traditional Armenian music. As playful and wacky as it is politically incisive, the foursome’s opening salvo is scaling operatic melodies one moment (“Spiders”), thrashing anti-war screeds the next (“War?”) and then saying the word “sugar” in a funny accent before you’ve even had a chance to digest their humanitarian pleas. Get the vinyl.