Serj Tankian, vocalist for chart-topping Armenian-American nü-metal/alternative metal band System Of A Down, has plans to release a new solo EP by the name of “Foundations” this September. Speaking recently with Metal Hammer, Tankian revealed that the 5-song effort will feature a track that he had originally written with intentions for System Of A Down in the band’s early days.
He elaborated on that:
“It’s five songs. We just shot five videos for it last week with members of the FCC, my back-up band, which was really fun, and we’re going to put it out in September. We’re actually going to start leaking some material as early as next month.
The reason I’m putting it out is that archival nature of writing a book made me look into songs from different periods of time. So one of the songs is from early System days, for example, that I’ve never put out, that I’d never worked with System on. A couple of the songs are from my early 2007 /2008 solo record period, but didn’t fit the record [“Elect The Dead“.]
“It’s an interesting retrospective of rock music that I’ve never released from different times, and it’s called ‘Foundations‘ basically because it’s the founding of my musical life. They’re very interesting songs, very different from each other: one is really heavy, one is like, really progressive, there’s just different elements to each of them. But I think they work in tandem.”
The book Tankian refers to above is his memoir ‘Down With The System‘, which he will have out on May 14th. Last night (April 27th) saw Tankian rejoin his System Of A Down bandmates onstage for the group’s first live show in nearly a year.
System Of A Down will next headline the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA on August 17th. Support at that show will come from Deftones, The Mars Volta, VOWWS & Viagra Boys.
