System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian will launch Foundations, a brand new solo EP, in September, and it’ll characteristic one tune written for the Armenian-American nu metallic stars however by no means beforehand launched.
Talking to Steel Hammer whereas selling his forthcoming autobiography Down With The System, set for launch on Could 14, by way of Headline, the singer defined that the idea behind the file stemmed from the deep dive he took into his musical journey whereas writing what he calls his “by accident hatched philosophical memoir.”
“It is 5 songs,” he reveals. “We simply shot 5 movies for it final week with members of the FCC, my back-up band, which was actually enjoyable, and we will put it out in September. We’re really going to start out leaking some materials as early as subsequent month.
“The rationale I am placing it out is that archival nature of writing a e book made me look into songs from completely different durations of time. So one of many songs is from early System days, for instance, that I’ve by no means put out, that I would by no means labored with System on. A few the songs are from my early 2007 /2008 solo file interval, however did not match the file [Elect The Dead, released in October 2007]..
“It is an attention-grabbing retrospective of rock music that I’ve by no means launched from completely different occasions, and it is referred to as Foundations mainly as a result of it is the founding of my musical life,” he continues. “They’re very attention-grabbing songs, very completely different from one another: one is actually heavy, one is like, actually progressive, there’s simply completely different parts to every of them. However I believe they work in tandem.”
System Of A Down co-headlined the second staging of the Sick New World pageant in Las Vegas final evening, April 27. The LA performed a 27-song set, which included the primary performances since 2015 of CUBErt (from their 1998 self-titled debut album) and Bubbles (from 2002’s Steal This Album!). The band additionally co-headlined the pageant in its debut yr, 2023.
The quartet will play their second present of 2024 once they co-headline a one-off occasion with Deftones on the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California, on August 17.
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