10 Best Debut Rock Albums Of The 1990s
5. System Of A Down - System Of A Down
Almost a year to the day before Slipknot announced themselves, a strange group of Armenian-Americans put out their debut album to a mixture of acclaim and straight-up confusion.
If you were to judge this record based solely on its song titles, then you might think that somebody had made them up as a joke.
DDevil. Peephole. CUBErt. War? P.L.U.C.K. (Politically Lying, Unholy, Cowardly Killers).
These can't be real songs, right? Well, they are.
System of a Down's first album set the stage for what would be an incredible career, wasting no time in introducing listeners to the band's intoxicating mix of political commentary, crushing riffs, and sentences that sound like the scribblings of an 18th Century asylum patient.
As well as the aforementioned deep cuts, the album also featured popular songs like Sugar and Spiders. To call these songs conventional would be stretching the truth a little bit, but they were much more radio-friendly than most of the other stuff on here.
Although their greatest successes wouldn't come until much later, System of a Down get a lot of credit for setting out their stall nice and early.