SERJ TANKIAN SONGWRITER AND LEAD SINGER OF GRAMMY-WINNING ROCK BAND SYSTEM OF A DOWN RELEASES NEW SINGLE AND VIDEO “LIFE’S REVENGEFUL SON”

Singer, poet, songwriter, visual artist, film producer, activist and author SERJ TANKIAN, lead singer and lyricist for the GRAMMY© Award-winning rock band System Of A Down has debuted the new video for the song ”Life’s Revengeful Son.” The song is the fourth single and video off SERJ TANKIAN’s 5-Song EP of new music titled FOUNDATIONS, which is available worldwide via Gibson Records HERE. “Life’s Revengeful Son” incorporates a variety of instrumentation, including acoustic and electric guitars and dramatic orchestration, into an epic closer with unmatched imagery: “The final revolution will occur when the arms of the clock fall,” Tankian sings. “Jesus seen in the streets, dragging a car axel instead of the cross.”

 

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SERJ TANKIAN’s FOUNDATIONS (Gibson Records)

1.   “A.F. Day”

2.   “Justice Will Shine On”

3.   “Appropriations”

4.   “Cartoon Buyer”

5.   “Life’s Revengeful Son”

 SERJ TANKIAN’s FOUNDATIONS mines music and lyrics from previous decades and reframes them in a hard-hitting, intensely focused collection. Like all of TANKIAN’s work, the five songs that comprise FOUNDATIONS encompass a wide range of sounds and styles. It is music that traverses multiple eras and vast swaths of emotions. It is also very much a rock album – ‘music of rebellion,’ says TANKIAN.

 

FOUNDATIONS kicks off with “A.F. Day,” a raging, heavy-riffing track that sounds like classic TANKIAN. The origins of the song date back almost three decades, to his earliest days with System of a Down. TANKIAN never brought it to the band to record, and when he happened upon “A.F. Day” more recently he “felt it should finally be released.” In doing so, he retained much of the original music, including his vocals – a decision that was partly pragmatic: “My voice has naturally changed over time,” TANKIAN explains. As the lyrics demonstrate, his attitude has not. “Medieval educators locking horns at the playground at 5 / Real live police crime shows submission of the population at large,” he rails, expressing disgust with indoctrination and blind deference to authority at every turn.

 SERJ TANKIAN’s FOUNDATIONS mines music and lyrics from previous decades and reframes them in a hard-hitting, intensely focused collection. Like all of TANKIAN’s work, the five songs that comprise FOUNDATIONS encompass a wide range of sounds and styles. It is music that traverses multiple eras and vast swaths of emotions. It is also very much a rock album – ‘music of rebellion,’ says TANKIAN.

 

FOUNDATIONS kicks off with “A.F. Day,” a raging, heavy-riffing track that sounds like classic TANKIAN. The origins of the song date back almost three decades, to his earliest days with System of a Down. TANKIAN never brought it to the band to record, and when he happened upon “A.F. Day” more recently he “felt it should finally be released.” In doing so, he retained much of the original music, including his vocals – a decision that was partly pragmatic: “My voice has naturally changed over time,” TANKIAN explains. As the lyrics demonstrate, his attitude has not. “Medieval educators locking horns at the playground at 5 / Real live police crime shows submission of the population at large,” he rails, expressing disgust with indoctrination and blind deference to authority at every turn.

As previously announced, on November 1, TANKIAN will release a diverse selection of limited edition variants of the FOUNDATIONS EP on colored vinyl with an etching featured on Side B of every package. The FOUNDATIONS vinyl package includes a Red & Black Starburst vinyl (pictured below) available on TANKIAN’s own official webstore HERE, and an Opaque Purple version only available in U.S. record stores nationwide.

 

In celebration of TANKIAN’s Fall 2024 REVOLVER magazine cover story, an exclusive and limited edition vinyl in a striking Dark Blue Marble, is bundled with a special edition of the cover story wrapped in a one-of-a-kind photo slipcase. The limited edition REVOLVER bundle of FOUNDATIONS with the magazine and vinyl is available HERE.

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