Serj Tankian

As a singer, poet, songwriter, activist and composer, Serj Tankian is known for creating music as an outlet to express his thoughts and feelings with an intense passion and consciousness. Early in his career, Serj found an outlet as the lead singer and songwriter of the successful rock band System Of A Down. Despite this success, Serj has not grown complacent with his art, always striving to open up new channels of sound and arrangement to articulate his musical expressions. Serj Tankian's resume also includes the formation of a record label, Serjical Strike Records (established in 2001) which has released albums by 8 critically acclaimed artists, including Fair To Midland, Buckethead and Death By Stereo.

His latest solo album entitled Harakiri comes out July 10th on Reprise Records/Serjical Strike and it is the follow up to 2010's critically acclaimed Imperfect Harmonies. This will be the first of four new albums to be released in the near future. The first single from this album is called "Figure It Out."

The album will feature performances by Serj's touring band, The F.C.C. - Dan Monti on guitar, Mario Pagliarulo on bass, and Troy Zeigler on drums. Dan Monti is also co-mixing and co-engineering the album with Serj. When asked about the album, Serj has said that "the record is different than any I've made as a solo artist. It is much more driving and punk oriented with influences ranging from goth to electronic to 80's vibes, dynamically heavy rock to epic melodic songs. Lyrically, it spans the gauntlet of themes from personal, political and philosophical to spiritual, humor and love."

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