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Serj Tankian - Elect the dead

Elect the Dead is the debut solo album by System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian. He played most of the instruments himself but did get help from System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan and former Primus/current Guns N' RosesBryan "Brain" Mantia, along with Dan Monti on guitar and bass, opera singer Ani Maldjian and some string players, Antonio Pontarelli among them.[2]October 18, 2007. The official tour for Elect the Dead commenced on October 12 with a show at Chicago's Vic theater. drummer The album was leaked on

The first concert had roughly 1,000 people attending, in a medium sized venue. Although Serj had stated he would not be performing any of System of a Down's material, he had performed Charades, a song co-written by Daron Malakian, the guitarist of System of a Down. Although it is originally a song restricted to piano and vocals, Serj used his backing band, The FCC, to provide guitars, drums and bass.

“ It's very wide sounding — lots of different sounding instruments. The excitement I had making this record was the same excitement I had making the first System record. „

—Serj Tankian

Tankian has stated that while some of the songs are new, a lot of them have been with him for a while. The first singles off the album were "The Unthinking Majority" and "Empty Walls". The song "Saving Us" was released on Tankian's Last.fm page[3] and his MySpace.[4] The video for "Feed Us" was released on the Swedish[5] and UK[6] MTV. Serj recently appeared on MTV's You Rock The Deuce to Promote Elect The Dead. He participated in a number of skits featuring himself playing the roles of producer, director, and other various duties. Instrumental versions of every official album track exist on a promotion disk (PRO-CD-102124) that has been given away by Serjical Strike Records.

Released Flag of the United States October 23, 2007
Flag of Finland October 17, 2007
Flag of Germany October 19, 2007
Flag of Australia October 27, 2007
Flag of Ireland October 20, 2007
Flag of Poland October 22, 2007
Flag of the United Kingdom October 22, 2007
Flag of New Zealand October 22, 2007
Genre Alternative rock
Experimental rock
Art rock
Length 45:03 (standard edition)
59:00 (limited edition)
Label Serjical Strike/Reprise
Producer Serj Tankian
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Track listing

  1. "Empty Walls" – 3:49
  2. "The Unthinking Majority" – 3:46
  3. "Money" – 3:53
  4. "Feed Us" – 4:31
  5. "Saving Us" – 4:41
  6. "Sky Is Over" – 2:57
  7. "Baby" – 3:31
  8. "Honking Antelope" – 3:50
  9. "Lie Lie Lie" – 3:33
  10. "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" – 4:23
  11. "Beethoven's Cunt" – 3:13
  12. "Elect the Dead" – 2:54

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