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Title: System Of A Down - 1997 Demo Tape
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1997, Metal, Alternative Metal, Los Angeles, California 5/26
Condition: New (VZ) | Members: Serj T (67' - ), Daron M (75' - ), Shavo O (74' - ), John D (73' - )
Cultural Facts:

1. Personal Struggle: The band’s Armenian heritage carried family memory of genocide and displacement into a Los Angeles metal scene built around immigrant identity.

2. Political Science: Even in the demo era, System mixed absurd humor with anger at prisons, state violence, and social control, before those themes became their signature.

3. Scene Ecology: The 1997 demo period catches the band before the major-label machine, still forming inside LA’s heavy underground and Armenian-American community networks.