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EVANESCENCE, TRIVIUM, EVERY TIME I DIE Members Talk Halloween

Altitude TV has posted the Halloween edition of its "Metalogy" program featuring interviews with EVANESCENCE, TRIVIUM, EVERY TIME I DIE, NORMA JEAN, UNDEROATH and DROID and more on their best Halloween moments and costumes. Watch the two-minute clip below. SYSTEM OF A DOWN singer Serj Tankian told T...

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SERJ TANKIAN On 'Tavis Smiley'; Video Available

SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian was a guest recently on the late-night television talk show "Tavis Smiley" on PBS. Watch a four-minute excerpt from the interview below. Serj Tankian's solo debut, "Elect the Dead", sold 66,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut a...

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KORN, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, DISTURBED Singers Talk Halloween Plans

The Pulse of Radio reports: Wednesday (October 31) is Halloween, one of the biggest and most increasingly popular holidays on the calendar. The day is normally filled with costumes, parties, haunted houses, horror movies, trick-or-treating and all kinds of spooky and entertaining events and activiti...

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SERJ TANKIAN, ROB ZOMBIE, SOILWORK, EXODUS, SKINDRED First-Week Sales Revealed

The following are notable heavy metal/hard rock U.S. sales debuts for the week ending October 28, 2007, as reported by Nielsen SoundScan (all CD figures are rounded to the nearest hundred [except numbers over 20,000, which are rounded to the nearest thousand]; The Billboard 200 chart position includ...

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SERJ TANKIAN Talks To Seattle's 99.9 KISW; Audio Available

An 11-minute audio interview with SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian conducted by "The BJ Shea Morning Experience" on the Seattle station 99.9 KISW has been posted online at this location. Serj Tankian's solo debut, "Elect the Dead", is the first new release from a member of SYSTEM OF A DOWN sin...

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SERJ TANKIAN On New York's K-ROCK; Video Interview Available

SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian recently stopped by the K-Rock studios in New York City to talk about his solo debut, "Elect the Dead", with K-Rock's Nik Carter. Watch the 15-minute interview below. "Elect the Dead" is the first new release from a member of SYSTEM OF A DOWN since the band wen...

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SERJ TANKIAN Covers THE BEATLES' 'Girl'; Video Available

Fan-filmed video footage of SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian performing a cover of THE BEATLES' "Girl" on October 22, 2007 at The Granada Theater in Dallas, Texas can be viewed below. In a recent interview with Live Daily, Serj was asked which covers was going to be performing on his current t...

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SERJ TANKIAN On Fuse TV's 'The Sauce'; Video Available

SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian was a guest on Fuse TV's "The Sauce" on October 11. Watch the eight-minute segment below. Serj Tankian's first solo album, "Elect the Dead" was released this past Tuesday (October 23). Tankian says that the CD is the result of years of songwriting, during which...

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NINE INCH NAILS' REZNOR Releasing Album Online

The Pulse of Radio reports: NINE INCH NAILS frontman Trent Reznor is releasing the new album from hip-hop poet Saul Williams as a digital release, letting fans either download it for free or pay five dollars. Titled "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggyy Tardust", the record will be available...

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ROBERT PLANT's Collaboration With ALISON KRAUSS On Track To Land At Billboard's No. 2

"Raising Sand", the collaboration between LED ZEPPELIN legend Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, is on track to sell between 80,000 and 90,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 2 on The Billboard 200 chart (behind "American Idol" and Grammy Best New Artis...

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SERJ TANKIAN's Home Has Close Brush With California Fires

The Pulse of Radio reports: Serj Tankian is one of many artists and celebrities who has a home in the Southern California area that is currently endangered by massive fires, and told a Seattle radio station on Tuesday (October 23) that his area was under orders to evacuate. But Tankian arrived in Ca...

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SERJ TANKIAN Raises 'The Dead' With Arrival Of First Solo Effort

The Pulse of Radio reports: SYSTEM OF A DOWN vocalist Serj Tankian steps out on his own Tuesday (October 23) with the arrival of his first solo album, "Elect The Dead". Tankian says that the CD is the result of years of songwriting, during which the singer composed everything from film music to punk...

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Elect the Dead

SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian is the first to break the band's self-imposed hiatus with his debut solo album, "Elect the Dead", and the most immediate and welcome thing is that the record, of course, is free of the overbearing, whiny vocals of SYSTEM guitarist Daron Malakian, whose apparent...

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SERJ TANKIAN With WYCLEF JEAN; Audio Available

SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian recently teamed up with Wyclef Jean on a track called "Riot" for the ex-THE FUGEES member's forthcoming offering, "Carnival II: Memoirs of an Immigrant", which is due December 4. "He sent me the track and said, 'Check it out, and let me know what you think and...

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SERJ TANKIAN Wants To Take His Sound In 'More Orchestral' Direction

SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian has told MTV.com that he'd like to take his sound in a more orchestral direction with his second solo album, with jazz numbers interspersed throughout. "I have some songs written and recorded for it, and I think it will be a more jazzy, orchestral record, which...