Toxicity is an album that I can throw on and listen to from front to back.
Starting off with (#01) Prison Song, it sets an anti-establishment tone, covering how minor offenses can ruin your life with long prison sentences over rehabilitation or other methods of punishment, such as community service. (#03) Deer Dance goes on to paint that same establishment as pushing their weight around, whether through peace or not.
I always took (#05) X as a song that spoke of an invading army of lands where they're not wanted.
(#06) Chop Suey! takes the cake here as I believe it was the first single that dropped from this album. To me, it feels like it's a song about good people going through difficult times and only seeing one way out, with the empathetic lyrics, "I cry when angels deserve to die."
I don't believe that (#07) Bounce has much meaning to it besides the adult-themed undertones, but it is a fun song to still let play through.
(#09) ATWA I feel is about someone with no hope and in despair, not understanding that there are people out there who do care.
The song (#10) Science I believe is about people falling for and only following empirical data and losing touch with conceptual data, or higher beings than science, that is.
(#11) Shimmy is another one of those fun songs. It's about getting an education to get farther in life. However, I believe that's not the only important aspect of becoming successful in life. I believe that it also has an underlying message that everyone is educated the same, so conformity in all beliefs might end up the same.
Another single from this album was (#12) Toxicity. Recently, I read the vocalist Serj Tankian's take on the lyrics of "somewhere between the silence and sleep" essentially being the time between when your head hits the pillow to a full-blown dream that can spiral out of control into a nightmare. That completely changed my outlook on the song. Between the silence and sleep is the perfect mental state.
And finally, (#14) Ariels is a song that I believe is about finding peace for yourself.
5/5 Album from SOAD
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