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It's bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorne.

My first guest this week is Search Tankin. He's best known as the lead singer of System of a Down.

Yes, System of a Down, the band that recorded Chop Sooey, the Smash It from 2001.

Wake up. Sui, the Smash It from 2001.

Wake up,

Wake up,

and rush but a little makeup.

I just cause the fade away the shakeup.

Why do you need the keys up on the table?

Here you don't create another table.

You want to do.

And look, if you're around my age, you remember this song, and maybe you don't have the fondest feelings about this particular genre, and fair enough, there were a lot of corny and sometimes problematic

bands back then. But among them, system of down were pretty special.

Chop suey has a lot of the fun hallmarks of new metal, you know chug-a-chug guitars, groovy drums with the double kick,

surge screaming.

Then it goes quiet.

The guitarist stops chugging, the drummer lays back, and listen to the melody. I think you trust in my self-french is suicel and I cry when angels deserve to die.

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