SYSTEM OF A DOWN Frontman Concentrating On Doing His Own Thing
July 20, 2007SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian has told MTV.com that while he is currently concentrating on a solo career, he doesn't rule out a return to SOAD.
"We're all doing our own things right now and just taking time off," he said. "SYSTEM's always been there. We've been a band for 11 years. We're five albums in, and we're all friends. So anytime we want to get together and work, it's there for us. Otherwise, we're doing our own things."
Venturing out on his own has been an idea Tankian has fostered for some time, he said. For years, he's been stockpiling material not knowing what he'd do with it.
"I write music every day — for film, for video games, for whatever — and most of the songs I write, I don't know where they're going to end up, so I just keep on writing," he explained. "I like putting out different types of records. I like dabbling in many different things. But I had never done a full solo record. I had never written full songs for me to sing, where I play all the instruments and produce it myself. So I had all these songs that I felt really strong about, that I thought that I should be performing myself and not have them as songs for other people or for film or anything else. And that's [how] 'Elect the Dead' [Tankian's upcoming solo album] came about. It's been a fun, liberating process for me."
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