Hypnotize is the fifth album and second half of the Mezmerize/Hypnotize double album released by System of a Down. It was released on November 22, 2005, through the record label, Columbia. The double album was recorded in two studios; The Mansion, and the Akademie Mathematique of Philosophical Sound Research. The double album debuted at #1 in the Billboard 200. Hypnotize was the last album to release before System of a Down’s four-year hiatus from August 2006 to November 2010.