open 12 to 7 today on this date nine years ago ! Hypnotize is the fifth alb** by Armenian American rock band System of a Down and the second half of the Mezmerize/Hypnotize double alb**. It was released on November 22, 2005, six months after the release of companion alb** Mezmerize. Mezmerize and Hypnotize both debuted at number #1 on the Billboard 200 alb**s chart making the band one of the few to achieve this with two alb**s in the same year. Hypnotize was System of a Down's last studio alb** before their four-year hiatus from August 2006 to November 2010.
