“Violent Pornography” by System of a Down

"Violent Pornography" is Daron Malakian's baby on Mezmerize, System of a Down's fourth album, released in 2005: he wrote the words and music, plays guitar, co-produced it with Rick Rubin and trades vocals with Serj Tankian. That tag-team singing runs right through Mezmerize, one half of a double album with Hypnotize as the other, where Malakian takes on much of the vocal load alongside Tankian.

Shavo Odadjian plays bass, John Dolmayan is also credited among the players, and Andy Wallace mixed it, with John O'Mahony and David Schiffman engineering. The album hit shelves through American Recordings and Columbia in May 2005 and went straight to the top of the Billboard 200, selling more than 450,000 copies in its first week.

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