Serj Tankian – Taking Over With Solo Album In October
Billboard.com reports: SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian steps center stage this fall with a new solo album, “Elect the Dead,” due Oct. 23 via Serjical Strike/Warner Bros. The 12-track set features contributions from SOAD drummer John Dolmayan and former PRIMUS stickman Bryan “Brain” Mantia, along with guitarist/bassist Dan Monti, opera singer Ani Maldjian and some string players.
The album is ripe with outrage both political and personal, including references to “bodies burning” on the shred-fest “Empty Walls” and how “antidepressants make life more tolerable” on “The Unthinking Majority.” Tankian later declares, “We are the cause of a world that’s gone wrong” on the eerie “Honking Antelope.”
Other tracks previewed by Billboard.com blend the stop-on-a-dime rhythmic changes of SYSTEM OF A DOWN with acoustic guitar strumming and Eastern European-tinged melodies, often in the course of one song.
“Saving Us” begins softly before exploding into a heavy, impassioned chorus and later, a double-time beat and a detuned guitar riff, while “Lie Lie Lie” matches its lyrical themes of incest and murder with appropriately ominous music.
“There’s romantic songs, love songs, pain songs… a gamut of what I was feeling in the last year-and-a-half,” Tankian told Billboard.com in April. “The whole album is this deep, human pain that kind of is looking for redemption.”
Here is the track list for Elect the Dead:
1. Empty Walls
2. The Unthinking Majority
3. Money
4. Feed Us
5. Saving Us
6. Sky Is Over
7. Baby
8. Honking Antelope
9. Lie Lie Lie
10. Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
11. Beethoven’s C*nt
12. Elect the Dead
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haha, i like the title for #10. that’s a great description for conservatives.
I usually don’t care for solo albums. Hopefully this one will be good.
*yawn*