Serj Tankian To Release EP Of Unused System Of A Down Material

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Serj Tankian has started teasing his long-promised EP, full of ideas he had for the now-cancelled System Of A Down album. Serj, today shared a little teaser to his social media naming the upcoming EP, ‘Elasticity’, and providing a little sample of what to expect.

Previously, Guitarist Daron Malakian ended up using some of the material, that was intended for the SOAD comeback album, for Scars On Broadway’s album.

“Originally I had these songs in mind for a System record if we were to end up doing a System record,” Tankian told Spin last year. “But as we could not really see eye to eye on how to go forward with that I decided to finish them off myself and release them as an EP.”

“I always have random rock tracks done at different times and I sit on them. And then one day the right project or right idea for releasing them will come along. They all have piano or synthesisers, which is a little different than the four-person crew with System, although we had some synths as well.”

“It’s got stuff that’s really heavy, heavy and there’s a funny aspect and then there’s a song about my son. It kind of runs the gauntlet on diversity of thematic expression: political, non-political. I guess that’s always been me, all over the place.”

“I think I’m gonna call it Elasticity just because I wanted to do it with System and it didn’t happen. For me, it’s not Toxicity but it is Toxicity. That’s what I’m thinking of calling it. I haven’t finalised it, but that’s what I’m thinking of calling it. We’ll probably put it out later this year.”

Check out the new teaser for ‘Elasticity’ below:

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Recently the band have put down their differences, releasing their first new music in 15 years, to raise over $600,000 for The Armenia Fund.