Serj Tankian

Kess73

His solo album is out in a week or so.


Was listening to Empty Walls yesterday, great track and cool video. The few tracks I have heard off of the album would be in a similar vein to his day job band's Mesmerize.

Maybe a little more melodic in places. Is yet another album that I am looking forward to.

deman

Love the vid, the song's pretty good too. I've only heard this one song but it's definitely not as hardcore as SOAD stuff.

Is he weird or what? But brilliant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZSKvSz1roQ

Mushy

I'm also liking the song. Not as heavy as SOAD, but can get over that easily. Video is kinda freaky to some extent, will still watch it though. Prefer this over a lot of SOAD's stuff

Sabre0001

Liking what he has released so far - 2 very good, interesting (and moderately controversial ) videos and good music to boot...Looking forward to the album.

Much better hearing him getting to do vocals rather than some of the screeching of Daron in SOAD!

gucci

interesting, il say that, i dont know why SOAD seemed to loose direction in their last pair of albums (or one album split into two sales!) but this looks promising, still a bit whiney/poppy for my liking, the man has a great voice, i feel he could do so much more! i see hes going touring also, hard to know what sort of show to expect seen as he never really spoke to the audiences when with SOAD....

projectmayhem

heard it when he stuck it up on myspace a while ago. i think the songs he has online are stunning. far superior to the last 3 SOAD albums and shows exactly why Daron Tankian should have stfu instead of pushing himself and his horrid vocals forward in SOAD...

Kess73

Must try to get to that.

qwertplaywert

Its lighter system.
Wonder will the album be like a System one- 3/4 great tracks, rest filler that sounds exactly the same.

christophicus

Good to see he is not looking so malnourished as he was a while ago. The songs are decent enough, but for me the video's really take away form the song. YOur focusing more on watching the video then you are on listening to the song, also the imagery does nothing for me at all.

jmc

New album playback is up on the dedicated BBC6 Music site http://www.civilisationisover.com
Album is out in the shops from tomorrow.
The special edition is out Oct 26th, and the vinyl on Nov 9th.

Kess73

Picked it up this morning, and am five tracks into it. Quite enjoying it, nowhere near as heavy as S.O.A.D but still a good listen.

Picked up the new albums from Coheed And Cambria, plus Ministry, so have some decent listening today.

projectmayhem

Kess73 wrote: »

Picked it up this morning, and am five tracks into it. Quite enjoying it, nowhere near as heavy as S.O.A.D but still a good listen.

Picked up the new albums from Coheed And Cambria, plus Ministry, so have some decent listening today.

christ, expensive day today

Kess73

projectmayhem wrote: »

christ, expensive day today

It got worse, I picked up Down's new album on my lunchbreak. Thank god for the plastic.

*tOpLaSs

Great song, like the video, looking forward to getting the album..

redenemyjoe

i think serj is gonna flop, does nobody else find the trax repetitive, especially the melodies and lyrical ideas, pity, used to love system

bombidol

First SOAD album is untouchable and if this stuff didnt sound like recent SOAD I think I'd like it but even the guitar and drum styles sound like em, Anyone else think that these are just songs that were left over from the last 2 soad albums?

Zapp Brannigan

The album is okay, at best. but I've always been a fan of Serj's vocal style so I'll listen to it

BleakestH

I've always liked Serj's vocals, and this album is enjoyable enough. Far better than the last few SOAD albums at least, the guitarist's vocals are absolutely horrific and ruin everything.

Numina

BleakestH wrote: »

the guitarist's vocals are absolutely horrific and ruin everything.

Then by that reckoning, Scars On Broadway is doomed to failure.

bought the album, listened, don't really like it all that much. Just....meh. however the acoustic version of Blue (from the deluxe version, which I had to aquire by other means) was very welcome.

redenemyjoe

bombidol wrote: »

First SOAD album is untouchable and if this stuff didnt sound like recent SOAD I think I'd like it but even the guitar and drum styles sound like em, Anyone else think that these are just songs that were left over from the last 2 soad albums?

backed bombidol............(u no me as redenemyjoe)!

maybe not leftovers because darren took over most of the writing on those albums, but its defo where that album came from

senordingdong

bombidol wrote: »

First SOAD album is untouchable and if this stuff didnt sound like recent SOAD I think I'd like it but even the guitar and drum styles sound like em, Anyone else think that these are just songs that were left over from the last 2 soad albums?

Ab-so-****ing-loutly.