10 Greatest Closing Tracks In Metal

3. Aerials - System of a Down

System of a Down was a much different animal from their nu metal counterparts in the early '00s. While most acts were looking to talk about their horrible home lives or getting bullied at school, the songs across albums like Toxicity were concerned with the real problems infecting the world, from unlawful incarceration to the way that we treat our planet. Though we were used to some of the violent screes against authority, this final meditation made us look inside ourselves to see the real monsters.

As Daron Malakian's tribal like riff comes droning in, Aerials becomes one of the harshest indoctrinations on human nature, with Serj Tankian talking about the loss of connection among human beings. Even though we may find ourselves riding down the same waterfall of life, there's no stopping the more stoic of society to turn around and put up their walls.

Once the track starts to push and pull, it gives way to one of the most intense moments in System's career, as Tankian and Malakian harmonize just to find themselves returning to the same conclusion all over again. With the same demented riff still rolling by the end, our titular characters are only condemned to repeat the same cycle they have grown tired of. Metal may have been about the outcasts of society, but Aerials proved that not even the outsiders are free from idle sin.