"System Overload" is a garage rock

Garage rock

Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. During the 1960s, it was not recognized as a separate music genre and had no specific name...

 song by New Zealand Rock and Roll band The Datsuns

The Datsuns

The Datsuns are a hard rock band from Cambridge, New Zealand, formed in 2000. To date they have released four albums and several singles, most of which have charted in New Zealand and/or the United Kingdom...

. It is the second single off the album Smoke & Mirrors.

It was released on both Vinyl and Compact Disk in 2006.

It is typical of The Datsuns style. With loud guitar, a lead break and dominant vocals.

Track listing

1. "System Overload"
2. "Don't shine your light on me"
3. "Killer Bees"

(Vinyl single doesn't include 'Don't shine your light on me')

Music video

The music video features the band performing on a rooftop in an old fashioned black and white city while explosions reign throughout. Large red robots are moving throughout firing purple laser beams at the buildings. During the songs lead break The Datsuns fire lightning out of their guitars at the robots, destroying them.
At the end of the video the smoke from the city clears and two pressure meters decrease. It switches to a view of the band looking downwards at a small robot toy before stamping on it.