SERJ TANKIAN: Entire 'Elect The Dead' Album Available For Streaming

October 16, 2007

SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian's solo debut, "Elect the Dead", which arrives on October 23, can now be streamed in its entirety at www.mtv.com.

The special limited-edition "deluxe" version of "Elect the Dead" 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 a cover of the DEAD KENNEDYS classic "Holiday in Cambodia" at the Paradise in Boston, Massachusetts on October 15, 2007:

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