System Of A Down: Serj Tankian (vocals, keyboards, samples); Daron Malakian (guitar, background vocals); Shavo Odadjian (bass); John Dolmayan (drums). Additional personnel: Rick Rubin (piano). Principally recorded at Sound City, Van Nuys, California. System of a Down sees itself as being an integral part of a new musical revolution of heavy music. On the surface, the bands manifesto seems tangential to Rage Against the Machines; but musically SOAD is a groove-metal machine, with a sound that i