In April 2024, during an interview with Metal Hammer in promotion of Down With the System , Tankian announced that he would release a new solo EP, titled Foundations , in September of the same year; he also revealed that he had originally written one of the songs included in…
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In October 2023, Tankian announced that he would release his first memoir , Down With the System , on May 14, 2024, via Hachette Books ; the artist wrote on X , “I had a blast working on this accidentally hatched philosophical memoir, as it’s given me the unique opportunity…
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In the following years, System of a Down increasingly limited their live appearances. On May 14, 2023, the band hosted their only live performance of the year as co-headliners of the Sick New World festival in Las Vegas . In 2024, the band performed two gigs, making headline appearances at…
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Tankian released his second EP titled Perplex Cities on October 21, 2022.
Tankian released his first ever EP titled Elasticity on March 19, 2021. He announced the release of his EP, and released the title track “Elasticity”, along with a music video for it, on February 5, 2021. In his announcement, Tankian stated “When I conceived possibly doing another record with the…
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The band was in limbo of not releasing any new tracks until November 2020, when they released ” Protect the Land ” and ” Genocidal Humanoidz “, which were songs that were made to help the cause of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War . The song’s profits went to the Armenia…
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Fuktronic , an electronic music collaboration with Mindless Self Indulgence ‘s Jimmy Urine was released in May 2020, after the duo released a sample on SoundCloud . Fuktronic is described as “the team of Serj Tankian and Jimmy Urine from Mindless Self Indulgence, making a soundtrack for the ultimate British…
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Tankian composed music for I Am Not Alone , a 2019 documentary film about the 2018 Armenian revolution . He was also an executive producer of the film.
In November 2017, Swedish independent label Woah Dad! acquired the albums that Tankian recorded for Reprise Records .
In June and July 2017, he was a guest on multiple shows of the Prophets of Rage during System of a Down’s European tour, singing ” Like a Stone ” in memory of his friend, Audioslave ‘s Chris Cornell .