Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine

17 May 2024

It’s been 19 years now since Californian metal-punk bulldozer System Of A Down
released their album Hypnotize and no sign whatsoever that they will ever come
back again with new music.

Frontman SERJ TANKIAN is a bit more active, although
his last solo LP Orca Symphony No. 1 dates from 2013.

In 2022 he wrote/recorded, along with his acclaimed Armenian compatriot
Sevak Amroyan a classical piano song named Amber, pronounced ‘ahm-be’r’
in Armenian, meaning ‘clouds‘ in English. Quite special. Tankain as tenor.

Last year Cesar Gueikian, the CEO of the Gibson Guitar company invited
Tankian and Black Sabbath‘s guitar hero Tony Iommi for a one-off collaboration.
The result was tempestuous single Deconstruction.

This week, the Armenian loudmouth launched his
memoir Down With The System. More info here

And today he announced a new solo EP, named Foundations and
shared the first single A.F. DAY which stands for Another Fucking Day.

Tankian: “This is a song I wrote in the early days of SOAD that I never released.
The majority of the instrumentation and vocals are recordings from that time.
Dystopian in mood, it’s a reflection of the angst and anti-authoritarian attitude
I had to conformity.”

Wake up people,
ST goes nuclear.

ST: Linktree