On December 13 2001, Chuck passed away age 34. Two decades later, Death remains his legacy, a timeless reminder of Chuck’s unparalleled ingenuity. The result? One of the earliest examples of technical death metal.Īgainst hard drugs and the showy rock star life of excess, in a cruel turn of events, Chuck’s life was cut short when he was diagnosed with a brain tumour on his 32nd birthday. With fourth album Human, Chuck enlisted Cynic’s Sean Reinert and Paul Masvidal to help him evolve the very genre he'd given rise to, driving his virtuoso skills to the limit, while moving away from gore-based lyrics and delving deep into the psyche. Chuck’s guttural vocals and complex guitar riffs, alongside debut album Scream Bloody Gore's insanely fast drumming, took metal to a whole new level of heavy and helped pioneer a new genre: death metal.Ĭhuck was never one to rest on his laurels, experimenting further into the realms of progressive metal and melodeath. If Death were still around, they’d be massive.”įormed by the late, great Chuck Schuldiner in 1983, Florida metallers Death pushed thrash to its extreme. “ Chuck was so ahead of his time that it became a hindrance. “Death were so far ahead of the curve that other people were playing catch-up,” says Trivium vocalist Matt Heafy. But if Guns N' Roses managed it after 15 years out, anything's possible. While various members have expressed their desire to get back in the studio, for now the hiatus looks set to continue. Like many of their peers on this list, there have been spats, disagreements and conflicting statements from SOAD's members about new material since they last released music in 2005.
That same track has also received more than twice as many streams on Spotify than any Slipknot song. To put it into perspective, System’s Chop Suey! video has notched up close to a billion views on YouTube, despite having been released before YouTube even existed. Much like Faith No More before them, the Californian alt-metal crew would go on to infiltrate the mainstream and achieve multi-platinum success, and the five albums they released between 19 remain some of the most groundbreaking records in modern metal. Indeed, their eccentric mix of prog, thrash, hardcore, funk, rap and Middle Eastern music took the best elements of the sub-genre – angular riffs, odd time signatures and manic vocals – and twisted them into something even more strange and compelling.
Even alongside the gang of misfits that came of age in the unruly era of nu metal, System Of A Down always stood out from their peers.
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