10 Bad Closing Songs On Great Rock Music Albums

System of a Down don't like to do things normally, so it's hardly surprising that they chose to end their 2001 album Toxicity with a traditional Armenian hymn.

Arto is an adaptation of Der Voghormia (Lord Have Mercy) and features Armenian-American folk musician Arto Tunçboyacıyan, who also lends his name to the track. Tunçboyacıyan also features on the song Science earlier in the album.

This micro number appears right at the end of the album and is actually a hidden track on its physical releases. It was included because of Tunçboyacıyan and Serj Tankian's shared Armenian heritage, offering a slice of their culture right at the end of the record.

Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work.

It clashes wildly with the rest of the album, even if it does come right at the end. Furthermore, it prevents Toxicity from being closed out by the song Aerials, which would have been a much better choice.

Ironically, Arto might have worked better as an album opener. It would have caught people's attention and still acted as a tribute to the musicians' background without getting in the way of the sequencing.

But alas, this was not to be.