Serj Tankian

A while ago, the BBC in the UK made an hour long documentary on the band which was well worth a watch; the interviews with Tankian revealing his depth of feeling toward getting recognition of the Armenian Genocide in 1914/1918 (a subject I've only heard from musicians before from Diamanda Galas)

She had so many friends!!!

My friend's brother used to blast "Chop Suey" and "BOOM!" from "Steal This Album" in his car driving us to school back in ye-olden-days, so it was only a matter of time until I hunted down Toxicity. I can actually remember the day that each of Mesmerize and Hypnotize came out because my friends and I held a listening party in my parent's basement (although I suppose this second part of the story was only about 4 years ago ). Hypnotize was such a big release at the time that pretty much everyone I knew at the school was yacking about it, and even had t-shirts to preempt the album - they even played the whole album on the local radio the night before it was released.


But I guess not all of Canada feels the same way. Peter will never know what he's missing out on

Wow Jim, I wouldn't have expected you to be in on the band


You should try out Mesmerize/Hypnotize, they're an excellent pair of albums.

topofsm wrote: The Pessimist wrote: topofsm wrote: And "Question!" might as well be better than most prog-metal material I've heard here. Tune My favourite System song. Maybe. I think it's marginally beaten by ATWA. Oh and about "Question?". 5/4 BABY!     ... And 6/8, and 9/8, and 4/4.

And some SICK drumming.

Serj's voice is pretty amazing.  (My personal description is a cross between Jello Biafra, Mike Patton and a man from Mars.)

topofsm wrote: And "Question!" might as well be better than most prog-metal material I've heard here.

Tune My favourite System song. Maybe. I think it's marginally beaten by ATWA.

Oh and about "Question?".

5/4 BABY!

 

I found Elect the Dead very interesting, however, there are few songs I dislike. A bit surprising, that allmusic labels it as "Neo-Prog"

I think I heard the single from his solo album and maybe turned it off halfway through or something.  It wasn't very interesting.  However, SOAD were quite good.  Although a bit repetitive and short on verses, but they provide some many interesting elements of quirky, psychotic, Armenian, pop/metal.  Which you don't hear everyday.  Their first album kind of stinks though.  A bit too juvenile musically, in my opinion.  

Ditto Mike, SOAD were fantastic. I currently have the albumsHypnotize/ Mesmerize and Toxicity and I like what I hear. Reminds me of Summer 08 Haven't heard any of the dude's solo stuff though, but from what I've heard it's nothing on SOAD.