'Steal This Album!' is a collection of never before released tracks from the vaults of the multi-platinum System Of A Down. Produced by Rick Rubin and System guitarist Daron Malakian and mixed by Andy Wallace ('Toxicity'), 'Steal...' features 16 tracks whose roots go back as far as before the group signed their 1995 contract with American, and as recent as the 2001 'Toxicity' sessions. While the band had intended to release previously recorded material atsome point, the leaking onto the Internet earlier this year of some of the tracks recorded for 'Toxicity' played a part in the timing of this release.
"We don't consider any of these songs B-sides or outtakes. The songs that didn't make it onto 'Toxicity' are as good as, if not better than the songs that did - they weren't originally included because they didn't fit the overall continuity of the album, and we're happy that our fans will be able to hear them in their completed form" - Serj Tankian