Toxicity
by System Of A Down

Album
Toxicity by System Of A Down
Year: 2001
Release date: 2001-09-04
Overall rank: 244th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 1,085 votes)
  Ratings distribution   Average rating history
Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 2001 (8th)
Award Top 50 albums of of the 2000s (39th)
Award Top 500 albums of all time (244th)

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Toxicity is ranked as the best album by System Of A Down.

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Toxicity track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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1.
Prison Song
Average Rating: 84 (220 votes)Comments: View 0
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Needles
Average Rating: 81 (191 votes)Comments: View 0
3.
Deer Dance
Average Rating: 83 (194 votes)Comments: View 2
4.
Jet Pilot
Average Rating: 77 (188 votes)Comments: View 0
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X
Average Rating: 77 (181 votes)Comments: View 0
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Chop Suey!
Average Rating: 90 (331 votes)Comments: View 8
7.
Bounce
Average Rating: 78 (182 votes)Comments: View 0
8.
Forest
Average Rating: 82 (199 votes)Comments: View 0
9.
ATWA
Average Rating: 84 (205 votes)Comments: View 0
10.
Science
Average Rating: 80 (186 votes)Comments: View 0
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Shimmy
Average Rating: 77 (182 votes)Comments: View 0
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Toxicity
Average Rating: 90 (285 votes)Comments: View 2
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Psycho
Average Rating: 83 (197 votes)Comments: View 0
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Aerials
Average Rating: 88 (266 votes)Comments: View 5

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Toxicity rankings

Toxicity rankings summary
Overall rank: 244th | 2000s rank: 39th | 2001 rank: 8th  Overall chart history
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Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 1,085 votes)
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 !		07/23/2026 14:52 ssteve  Ratings distribution  2,58176/100
 
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 !		07/12/2026 16:05 liquidbottle  Ratings distribution  77582/100

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From 06/21/2025 04:35 | #309633
While I love the singles (and few other tracks on this album here and there) and I generally love heavy metal/hard rock sounding music like this…I’m not at all a fan of the overtly political message of the music or from this band in general.

However, this album from System Of A Down has gone 6x Platinum in America alone and has been on the US Billboard 200 albums chart for a total of 149 weeks…so…good for them, I guess??? (Edited)
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From 04/07/2023 14:23 | #295848
Grandioso e positivamente pretencioso.
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From 04/04/2023 02:54 | #295758
Absolutely amazing Dragon Ball music.
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From 10/30/2022 13:33 | #290911
Great album - just getting first listen Oct 22. Metal isn't my go to place but so much here is really controlled and infectious. Opening 6 songs are just amazing.
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From 01/08/2022 22:11 | #278885
Such a consistent album. All of the songs are memorable. They are such a unique band, and this is their best work. The singles are obviously great (Chop Suey, Toxicity and Aerials), but Science is probably my favourite track on the album. Atwa and Needles are underrated too.
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