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Serj Tankian quick profile:
Born August 21, 1967
Origin Armenian and Lebanese
Genre(s)
Hard rock
Alternative metal
Experimental rock
Progressive metal
Funk metal
Art rock
Alternative rock
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter, poet
Instrument(s) Vocals, Keyboards/Piano, ... Read review
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The Bearded Legend! Review ofElect The Dead [Digipak] - Serj Tankianby
damob123
Advantages: Getting better Disadvantages: Not quite system of a down
...active 1993 - present
Elect the Dead is nearly as decadently weird and furiously propulsive as System's art-metal records were: Serrated guitars and madman rants bump up against pained, slo-mo choruses and speed-punk splatter, occasionally within the song. Sometimes, the strange little frills work -- the prolix, singsong hooks and eerie, is-that-an-electric-violin? riffs on "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition," say. But Elect the Dead mostly ... ...undercooked: "Saving Us," to name one dud, features a bleated, awfully annoying chorus that Tankian's bandmates might have talked him out of, were they involved. And though some may praise the leftist, possibly Iraq-inspired doomsaying of Tankian's lyrics, it's hard to imagine anyone getting much out of his self-serious tirades about post-industrial society and putting "civilization on trial." Album List:
1. "Empty Walls" 3:49
2. "The Unthinking ...
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Album Notes: Personnel: Serj Tankian (vocals); Ani Maldjian (vocals); Dan Monti (guitar, bass guitar); Bryan "Brain" Mantia, John Dolmayan (drums).
Album Reviews: Spin (p.125) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[H]is solo debut hardly favors wimpy love songs over fiery political jeremiads. Indeed, he opens with 'Empty Wall,' one of his prickliest jams yet..."
Titles on disc 1
1.: Empty Walls
2.: Unthinking Majority
3.: Money
4.: Feed Us
5.: Saving Us
6.: Sky Is Over
7.: Baby
8.: Honking Antelope
9.: Lie Lie Lie
10.: Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition
11.: Beethoven's Cunt
12.: Elect The Dead
Titles on disc 2
1.: Blue
2.: Empty Walls (acoustic)
3.: Feed Us (acoustic)
4.: Falling Stars
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