SYSTEM OF A DOWN Orchestrator SERJ TANKIAN Remebers His Late Friend CHRIS CORNELL
26 October 2025
Magic.
Tankian has a new solo album out ‘Covers, Collaborations & Collages’ out.
Serj Tankian
SYSTEM OF A DOWN – Huge Live Return In London And Europe For The Nu-Metal Champs In Summer Of 2026
18 September 2025
It’s been 10 years now since SYSTEM OF A DOWN released their double set
of albums, Mesmerize and Hypnotize, but their still a massive force with a
massive fanbase.
It’s also 5 years already since they had double A-side single Protect The Land
and Genocidal Humanoidz out to raise awareness and funds for Armenia and
the unrecognised Republic of Artsakh amid the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War.
Next year, 13 & 15 July, herculean voice Serj Tankian (now 58) and his accomplices
will play at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Football Stadium. Tickets are for sale HERE.
Queens Of The Stone Age will be the main support act.
They also have a handful shows listed up in Europe. Tickets for
those are available from 19 September on. More info HERE.
JUNE
29 – Sweden, Stockholm – Strawberry Arena
JULY
2 – France, Paris – Stade De France
6 – Italy, Milan – Ippodromo Snai La Maura
8 – Germany, Berlin – Olympiastadion
10 – Germany, Düsseldorf – Open Air Park Düsseldorf
13 – UK, London – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
15 – UK, London – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
18 – Poland, Warsaw – PGE Narodowy
SERJ TANKIAN About SYSTEM OF A DOWN Music
24 January 2025
Last year you promised a new SOAD album, Serj. We’re waiting.
5 New Sonic Injections To Start WEEK 31
5 to start another week
29 July – 4 August 2024
Artists: DVTR
Who: Swirling pop/rock duo from Montreal, Canada
who make me think of famous veteran Belgian dance
tandem Vive La Fête.
Track: LES OLYMPICS
Daft, madcap and totally blistering rocket to energize
all athletes involved in the Olympics 2024 in Paris.
Get on your horse, people!
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Artist: BRIAN ENO (full name: Brian Peter George Jean-Baptiste de la Salle Eno
Who: Former glamorous Roxy Music member, lauded producer, solo artist,
busy collaborator.
Track: STIFF
A song originally included on an album My Squelchy Life (1991)
that was actually never released.
It’s a reworked version and part of the soundtrack of
a new generative film about the legend, titled Eno.
Rare chipper tune for the ambient wizard.
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Press pic by Eliot Lee Hazel*
Artists: KAREN O and DANGER MOUSE (Brian Joseph Burton)
Who: Yeah Yeah Yeah‘s frontwoman and long-time EBM
musician/producer.
Five years ago, they released collaborative album Lux Prima .
They got back together now for a trippy/poppy
mid-tempo track, called SUPER BREATH.
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Artist: SERJ TANKIAN
Who: Frontman/songwriter of
nu-metal act System Of A Down
Track: JUSTICE WILL SHINE ON
New piece of his upcoming solo EP,
‘Foundation‘, which is
due on September 27.
Hell yeah!
Turn it up.
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Bands: SHOW ME THE BODY and ZULU.
Who: American hardcore engines
Track: NATION OF MIND
Cut from their brand new, collaborative EP, named Corpus II EP I (Corpus is the name
of SMTB’s label and collective, and Corpus I is the mixtape that they released in 2017).
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SYSTEM OF A DOWN Frontman SERJ TANKIAN Goes Nuclear On New Solo Slam Single ‘A.F. DAY’
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.
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GIBSON BAND Feat. SERJ TANKIAN And TONY IOMMI Launched Debut Hammer Blow ‘DECONSTRUCTION’
Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant
12 December 2023
(photo by Gibson co.)
Cesar Gueikian is the CEO of the Gibson company. The makers of the iconic
Gibson guitar. Recently he decided to start a band simply called GIBSON BAND.
He recruited two rock giants with System Of A Down‘s frontman
Serj Tankian and Black Sabbath‘s 6-string hero Tony Iommi.
The star trio launched their debut single yesterday, with all profits going to charity.
The mid-tempo hammer blow is named DECONSTRUCTION. How does it sound, I
hear you ask? Well, the band should have been named System Of A Black Sabbath Down.
DECONSTRUCTION
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Turn Up The Volume’s 20 BEST BALLADS OF 2022
Best heart-and-soul touching reveries of 2022
All Together on Spotify
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Song by Song
(photo byTurn Up The Volume – Antwerp, 6 June 2022)
1. ‘Come Back’ by SHARON VAN ETTEN
Album: We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong
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(Photo By Turn Up The Volume – Amsterdam, 15 October 2022)
2. ‘All The Good Times’ by ANGEL OLSEN (St. Louis, Missouri)
Album: Big Time
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3.’Change’ by BIG THIEF (Brooklyn, New York)
Album: Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe You
4. ‘The Epidemiologist’ by PETER DOHERTY & FREDERIC LO (UK/France)
Album: The Fantasy Life Of Poetry & Crime
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5. ‘Gospel At The Night Club’ by ASHLEY McBRYDE
Album: Ashley McBride Presents: Lindeville
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6. ‘Stay’ by KAT KOAN (Berlin)
Album: Cocoon
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7. ‘Train Comes Through’ by EZRA FURMAN (Chicago, US)
Album: All Of Us Flames
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8. ‘Story To Tell’ by RYAN THOMAS SMELLE (Canada)
Album: In The Homestretch
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9. ‘Spitting Off The Edge Of The World’ by YEAH YEAH YEAHS (New York City)
Album: Cool It Down
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10. ‘Firmament’ by DIM GRAY (Oslo, Norway)
Album: Firmament
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(Photo by Andy Foster)
11. ‘I Wish That I Could Sing It For You’ by NICOLAS ROWE (Columbus, Ohio)
Album: The Circle Remains Unbroken
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Album: The Other Side Of Make-Believe
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13. ‘Arkansas’ by THE TRUSTED (Southend-on-Sea, UK)
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14.’Save Me’ by WAITING FOR SMITH (UK)
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15. ‘Life And Lies’ by LEE ROGERS (Northern Ireland)
Album: Gameblood
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(Photo by Turn Up The Volume – Antwerp, 8 April 2022)
16. ‘I Love You’ by FONTAINES D.C. (Dublin, Ireland)
Album: Skinty Fia
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17. ‘Amber’ by SERJ TANKIAN (from Systems Of A Dawn) and SEVAK AMROYAN
Sung in Armenian
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18. ‘Christmas In October’ by MIKE & THE NERVE (Gainesville, FL)
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19. ‘Wasting’ by FERNA (US)
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20. ‘Always Together With You’ by SPIRITUALIZED (UK)
Jason Pierce‘s orchestra
Album: Everything Was Beautiful
SERJ TANKIAN And SEVAK AMROYAN Impress With New Gripping Armenian-Language Song ‘AMBER’
Impressive video clips
17 June 2022
System Of A Down voice and face SERJ TANKIAN and his acclaimed Armenian compatriot SEVAK AMROYAN teamed up for a monument of a song titled AMBER pronounced
‘ahm-be’r’ (Armenian), meaning ‘clouds’ in English.
Tankian: “I wrote the song after visiting my home country to serve as an election monitor as a member of the group, Justice for Armenia. The lyrics were initially inspired by slick theft of the elections before er reaching the ballot box.”
The accompanying video is directed by Hrag Yedalian, with Tankian and Amroyan standing still like they’re are opera singers. Meanwhile, a young boy flips through a sketchbook with handwritten phrases and illustrations that refer back to the song’s lyrics.
Tankian: “I wrote the song after visiting my home country to serve as an election monitor as a member of the group, Justice for Armenia. The lyrics were initially inspired by slick theft of the elections before er reaching the ballot box.”
It’s not that the clip is spectacular as such, but the vocal
performance sends shivers down your spine.
Overwhelming…
SERJ TANKIAN: Instagram
The 5 EPs That Impressed TURN UP THE VOLUME’S Ears During The First Three Lockdown Months Of 2021
13 April 2021
Band: DEAP VALLY
Who: The two charismatic rock queens Lindsey
Troy and Julie Edwards from the city of angels,
Los Angeles.
EP: DIGITAL DREAM
Released: 26 February 2021
TUTV says: Deap Vally invited their friends jennylee (Warpaint),
Soko, KT Tunstall, Peaches and Jamie Hince (The Kills). With such
an impressive cast you can’t get but 4 genuine gems: 2 soulful
ballads and 2 bluesy grooves. Top stuff! And a new EP is already
canned. Can’t wait. More info about American Cockroach here.
Listen/buy here…
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DEAP VALLY: Facebook
Artist: SERJ TANKIAN
Who: Frontman of noiseniks System Of A Down
EP: ELASTICITY – solo debut
Released: 19 March 2021
TUTV says: 5 sledgehammers with balls, perfect to start
insane moshpits with. Tankian still roars, rants and rattles
as if nothing else matters. Absobloodylutely noisetadtic!
Stream here…
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SERJ TANKIAN: Facebook
Band: ULTRA SUNN (Belgium)
Who: Cold/darkwave duo – Sam Huge and
Gaelle Souflet – from Brussels
EP: NIGHT IS MINE
Released: 5 March 2021
TUTV says: Combine D.A.F.‘s industrial vibes, Sisters Of Mercy‘s
gloom and doom hallucinations and Depeche Mode‘s pop-noir
thrills and you know it’s time for a dazzling house-lockdown-party.
Listen/buy here…
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ULTRA SUNN: Facebook
Band: REMINGTON SUPER 60 (Norway)
Who: Dream pop outfit created by songwriter
and producer Christopher Schou in 1998.
EP: NOUVELLE NOUVEAU
Released: 19 March 2021
TUTV says: Dream pop at its very best. Sonic melancholia for
the twilight hours with the sensual voice of Elisabeth Thorsen.
Imagine Mazzy Starr‘s wonderful Hope Sandoval wandering
at night in empty city streets while whispering her lullabies.
Listen/buy here…
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REMINGTON SUPER 60: Facebook
Band: INDOORSMEN
Who: Rowdy passion rockers from Chicago
EP: CLEANING HOUSE PT. 1
Released: 25 March 2021
TUTV says: Expect electrifying head-spinning rippers you
can play out loud to deafen your lockdown demons with.
But this Chicago gunslingers also show their moody blues
side on this excellent debut EP.
Listen/buy here…
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INDOORSMEN: Facebook
SERJ TANKIAN Drops Boiling 5-Track EP ‘ELASTICITY’
New sonic impulses…
23 March 2021
System Of A Down captain SERJ TAKIAN released a 5-track EP titled ELASTICITY.
Takain about why going solo: “When I conceived possibly doing another record with
the guys from System of a Down a few years back, I started working on a set of songs
that I arranged in rock format for that purpose,” Serj explains. “As we weren’t able to
see eye to eye on the vision going forward with an SOAD album, I decided to release
these songs under my moniker.”
I agree these tracks aren’t really trash and slash SOAD hammers. But hey, do
they want to make the same album as the last one? Yes, Tankian’s songs are
more accessible but it’s not like he wrote pop songs about the birds and the
bees or that your grandparents will go gaga on hearing them.
Taikan rocks (Elasticity and Electric Yerevan are bang-on jackhammers) like
hell, sings like hell and raps like hell. What a voice! Fuck SOAD, welcome Serj.
YEAH!
The clips for Elasticity and Electric Yerevan
– ELECTRIC YEREVAN –
– ELASTICITY –
Full EP…
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SERJ TAKIAN: Facebook
(image: cover from his solo LP ‘Harakiri’)