More details have been revealed about the deluxe edition of
SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman
Serj Tankian's upcoming solo debut,
"Elect the Dead", which arrives on October 23. The special limited-edition version 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.
Blue02.
Empty Walls (acoustic)
03.
Feed Us (acoustic)
04.
Falling StarsIf 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 the song
"Lie, Lie, Lie" live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on October 14, 2007:
Watch fan-filmed video footage of
Serj Tankian performing with
RAGE AGANST THE MACHINE's
Tom Morello (who is opening for
Tankian as
Morello's alter ego
THE NIGHTWATCHMAN) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on October 14, 2007:
