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)

Excellent! You simply MUST let us know what you think of them

Hey, it cant possibly be as bad as when Brian convinced me to buy Union.


I'm serious ... and I did!!!

Union has a few moments, maybe, now and then.. hey it was '91, weren't many oldtime proggers out there










Edited by Atavachron - January 21 2009 at 02:41

Both albums now arrived & as it was the first to drop on my doormat, I've been listening intensively to Hypnotise this weekend.

Didn't know what to make of it at first (Malakian takes a lot more of the vocals than on Toxicity, so changed the vibe a bit), but once I got where they were coming from I couldn't stop listening to it.

I know I should have listened to Mesmerise first, but if it's anywhere near as strong as Hypnotise, I'll be a happy man.

King By Tor: Many thanks for the recommendation

King By-Tor wrote: Ahhh! Good to hear! Personally I prefer Hypnotize, I find it stronger on the whole as an "album", while I find that Hypnotise puts more efforts into the individual songs. Of course, that means that Mesmerize has some of their best songs like "Question!" and "Holy Mountains". Of course, Hypnotize has "Solder Side", which may well be their all-time best achievement in my eyes. Putting it on now, actually you're welcome! Glad I could be of service.

OOPS! Holy Mountains is also on Hypnotize.


Well, Mesmerize does have Sad Statue and, Violent Pornography and Radio/Video

awesome tunes

ah well, okay - that makes sense.


You're gunna love Hypnotize


Have you connected the two cases yet?

Question! Is an amazing track. I think from Mesmerize I prefer Sad Statue. But like I said, I will always stick with Soldier Side as my favorite track of all time of theirs, although others do come close - The Metro, Inner Vision, Toxicity, Aerials, War, Peephole, Atwa, Deer Dance (and the list goes on... )

Sounds pretty awesome to me


And hey! I did mention Holy Mountains, remember, it's up the page - I couldn't figure out which album it was on

The only thing I don't really like about the Mezmerize/Hypnotize albums is that mixed in with some really great tunes you get a ton of formulaic similar sounding songs. "Attack", "Dreaming", "Tentative", "Stealing Society", and "Sad Statue" are all pretty much the same song and I can rarely remember which one is which when I hear one on shuffle. However, most of it is really good IMO.