Elect the Dead

~ Groupe de parution par Serj Tankian

Album

ParutionArtisteFormatPistesPays / DateLabelNo dans le catalogue Code-barres
Officiel
Elect the DeadSerj TankianCD12
  • US2007-08-20
Reprise Records, Serjical Strike Records286076-2093624992851
Elect the Dead (deluxe)Serj TankianDigital Media15
Woah Dad!093624990376
Elect the Dead (iTunes digital deluxe)Serj TankianDigital Media15
  • US2007-10-16
Reprise Records
Elect the DeadSerj TankianCD12
  • DE2007-10-19
Reprise Records9362-49928-5093624992851
Elect the DeadSerj TankianCD12
  • GB2007-10-22
wea (has logo with just “wea” on it)
Elect the Dead (2007 2x12" + CD)Serj Tankian2×12" Vinyl + CD8 + 4 + 12
  • US2007-10-22
Reprise Records, Serjical Strike Records286076-18719262008724
Elect the DeadSerj TankianCD12
  • AU2007-10-23
Reprise Records93624992859325583044816
Elect the DeadSerj TankianCD12
  • CA2007-10-23
Reprise Records2 286076093624992851
Elect the Dead (Special edition)Serj Tankian2×CD12 + 4
  • US2007-10-23
Serjical Strike Records286140-2093624992837
Elect the DeadSerj TankianCD12
  • XW2007-10-23
Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across)
Elect the DeadSerj TankianCD13
  • JP2007-10-24
Reprise Records, Serjical Strike RecordsWPCR-127694943674075492
Elect the DeadSerj TankianCD12
Reprise Records, Serjical Strike Records9362-49916-8093624991687
Elect the DeadSerj TankianCD12
Serjical Strike Records, Фирма грамзаписи «Никитин»46071731538214607173153821
Promotion
Elect the Dead (instrumental)Serj TankianCD12
Serjical Strike Records
Pirate
Elect the DeadSerj TankianCD16
Reprise Records (bootleg)9362-49928-5093624992851

Relations

singles/EP associés :Empty Walls
Lie Lie Lie
Sky Is Over
The Unthinking Majority
interprétations en public :Elect the Dead Symphony
Discogs :https://www.discogs.com/master/35586 [info]
critiques :https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/2j8c [info]
Wikidata :Q842081 [info]

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It was always on the cards that Armenian-American powerhouse Serj Tankian would one day make an album of his own.

His work as frontman for alt. metallers System Of A Down, as much as it made his name and helped shift over 16 million records, was never going be enough to satisfy his own creative energy and musical visions.

On Elect The Dead, his debut solo outing, Tankian plays virtually all the instruments (except drums and strings) and seeks to make his mark as an implacable, resolute critic of the U.S. capitalist system and a self-appointed waker of the unthinking dead.

His persuasive vocal style, as SOAD fans will know, is the perfect tool for such a job. Switching between acerbic screams and gentle croons, bellicose baritones and high-pitched falsettos, he sprays his embittered lyrics like gunfire across a set of songs that are as elastic and bombastic as a SOAD soundtrack, albeit with some fairly major differences.

The gut-punch opener "Empty Walls"," gets the album off to a recognizably heavy start, and sets the scene for Tankian to veer vertiginously between a dizzying array of emotions – anger and despair, sadness and hope – to a background of dense guitar blasts, heavy-duty drums, Queen-esque operatics and epic hardcore thrusts.

There's certainly versatility in the music. The jazz-infused rap-rock style of "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition", the chugging, serrated rock of "Beethoven's C**t", and the gothic-hardcore of "Money" are just some of the different spices that flavour Tankian's heady musical mish-mash.

Unfortunately the lyrics are not quite as moving. As sincerely motivated and impassioned as they are, songs like "Money" - a cynical look at how cash controls the world – are hardly telling us anything we don't already know, and statements like 'we are the cause of a world that's gone wrong' and 'civilization is on trial' can become, well, tedious.

Though it diverges away from the SOAD sound in many places, fans of the band may will probably like Elect The Dead, if only for its slew of heavy duty moments and the compelling power of Tankian's voice.