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SERJ TANKIAN: 'Elect The Dead' Bonus Tracks Revealed; First Concert Footage Available

October 15, 2007

More details have been revealed about the deluxe edition of SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian's upcoming solo debut, "Elect the Dead", which arrives on October 23. The special limited-edition version comes in a linen-wrapped hardbound book with four bonus tracks, a 48-page color booklet containing artwork and poetry, and a unique code to unlock exclusive content.

The bonus CD tracks are as follows:

01. Blue
02. Empty Walls (acoustic)
03. Feed Us (acoustic)
04. Falling Stars

If you pre-order "Elect the Dead" from iTunes, you will get three bonus tracks: "The Reverend King", "Blue" and "Falling Stars".

Tankian kicked off his first-ever solo tour on Friday night (October 12) in Chicago. The lineup of Tankian's backing band, called the FCC, includes PRIMUS/ex-POSSESSED guitarist Larry LaLonde as well as several friends of Tankian's who are unknown to the public. Tankian told The Pulse of Radio that this first run of shows will be a fairly low-key affair. "We're starting pretty organic, you know?" he said. "We're not really starting with a lot of production just to do the promo shows, you know. It's more about just getting up there and playing small theatres and introducing people to the new music and the backup band and doing things differently. And so it won't be a lot of bells and whistles, it'll just be us playing the music and, you know, interacting with the audience at first."

Tankian told The Pulse of Radio that the FCC stands for the "Flying C***s of Chaos."

Tankian enlisted filmmakers, digital artists and painters to create a video for each track on the album, with three of them already posted online.

Watch fan-filmed video footage of Serj Tankian performing the song "Lie, Lie, Lie" live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on October 14, 2007:

Watch fan-filmed video footage of Serj Tankian performing with RAGE AGANST THE MACHINE's Tom Morello (who is opening for Tankian as Morello's alter ego THE NIGHTWATCHMAN) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on October 14, 2007:

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