the four principal members feel that their unique sound is not only spiritual in nature, but a new genre of "heavy hip hop," not "rap-metal." there are no heavy guitars on the album, but the sound is genre-blending. most of the achozen album was recorded at one of odadjian's two studios and were also produced by him. the bulk of the beats were created by odadjian (only one or two samples were used on the entire record) who also played live instruments throughout, including bass and sitar. rza, who contributed his share of beats, kinetic 9 and the reverend william burke sing a majority of the vocals and lyrics, which are, according to odadjian, "some of the most innovative, poetic and righteous words and vocals that i've ever heard." odadjian's vocals can also be heard on the achozen tracks ""deuces"," ""salute/sacrifice,"" and other songs on the album.