Serj Tankian has shared a brand new solo unmarried, A.F. Day, a tune at first written for, however by no means launched through, Device Of A Down.
The tune bears a robust Religion No Extra affect, and is described through Tankian as, “dystopian in temper.” It is the first tune to be launched from the singer’s imminent EP, Foundations, which is about to emerge in September on Gibson Information, based through his good friend Cesar Gueikian, CEO of Gibson.
Speaking in regards to the tune, Tankian says, “It is a tune I wrote within the early days of SOAD that I by no means launched. Nearly all of the instrumentation and vocals are recordings from that point. Dystopian in temper, it’s a mirrored image of the angst and anti-authoritarian perspective I needed to conformity.”
Pay attention to A.F. Day underneath:
Talking to Steel Hammer whilst selling his new autobiography Down With The Device, the singer defined that the origins of the Foundations EP lay within the deep dive he took into his formative musical years whilst writing what he calls his “by chance hatched philosophical memoir.”
“It is 5 songs,” he published. “The rationale I am placing it out is that archival nature of writing a e book made me glance into songs from other classes of time. So one of the most songs is from early Device days, for instance, that I have by no means put out, that I might by no means labored with Device on. A few the songs are from my early 2007 /2008 solo document duration, however did not are compatible the document [Elect The Dead, released in October 2007].
“It is an enchanting retrospective of rock song that I have by no means launched from other occasions, and it is known as Foundations mainly as a result of it is the founding of my musical lifestyles. They are very fascinating songs, very other from each and every different: one is in reality heavy, one is like, in reality modern, there is simply other components to each and every of them. However I believe they paintings in tandem.”
In his memoir, Tankian finds that he advised Device Of A Down that they must raise on with out him way back to 2017, and that the band did check out one imaginable substitute for the singer, however in the end opted towards shifting ahead with out Tankian.
SOAD will play their 2d display of 2024 after they co-headline a one-off tournament with Deftones on the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California, on August 17.
