THE NEWS
"Chop Suey!" has been screamed back at System of a Down from festival fields for 25 years, and "Bleed" is still the drum part people fail at on YouTube. Rolling Stone has published its ranking of the 200 Greatest Rock Songs of the 21st Century So Far, and Loudwire counted 15 metal acts on it *. System of a Down landed highest among them at No. 37 *.
THE LEGACY
- Metal's top entry: System of a Down, "Chop Suey!" from Toxicity, at No. 37 *, ‡
- Slayer at No. 40 with "Disciple" off 2001's God Hates Us All, with Deftones just ahead at No. 47 for "Change (In the House of Flies)" from White Pony *
- Mastodon's "Blood and Thunder" from 2004's Leviathan at No. 60, Converge's "Concubine" from Jane Doe at No. 67 *
- Tool at No. 91 with "The Grudge," Opeth at No. 94 with the "Deliverance" title track *
- Meshuggah's "Bleed" at No. 149, Metallica's "Spit Out the Bone" at No. 161, Slipknot's "People = Shit" at No. 187, Baroness' "Isak" at No. 189 *
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Maps" took No. 1, ahead of "Seven Nation Army" and "Mr. Brightside" *
WHY IT MATTERS
As Loudwire's Chad Childers put it, "Since metal often gets overlooked, especially some of the more extreme stuff that doesn't get radio airplay, we thought we'd share some of the choices that made their final cut." * A list did not make "Bleed" or "Blood and Thunder" matter, the people who wore those records out already did that.
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