Being a virgin listener to this group with my only exposes to them via the trio of songs "Chop Suey!", "Toxicity", and the every popular "Aerials"(that might be the only System of Down song that would be played in Super markets) that would get the radio time, suggest to me that this group was a little ruff around the edges, but basically a mellow group. Boy, was wrong about this group, for they are hard metal group, and at first I was a little upset about that, but after a repeated listening to the CD, I found out that I like it, for all of the political and social issues that are covered in this CD, after getting a good gist of what they were saying. Another thing what I like about this group is how some of their songs sound like they are totally disorganized, like a little bit over there, a little bit over here, and something here are put together in a blender, spin around for a couple of seconds, after that they are spit out. But I think that is down on purpose, and to top that all of are two singers, Daron Malakian and Serj Tankian have some of most unique sounding voices that I have ever heard. As I said before, if you are new this group and the only expose that you have to this group is what played on the radio, then I suggest that you get this CD.