Gadget Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian will unlock Foundations, a brand new solo EP, in September, and it’ll characteristic one tune written for the Armenian-American nu steel stars however by no means prior to now launched.
Talking to Steel Hammer whilst selling his drawing close autobiography Down With The Gadget, set for unlock on Would possibly 14, by way of Headline, the singer defined that the concept that at the back of the file stemmed from the deep dive he took into his musical adventure whilst writing what he calls his “unintentionally hatched philosophical memoir.”
“It is 5 songs,” he unearths. “We simply shot 5 movies for it final week with participants of the FCC, my back-up band, which used to be truly a laugh, and we are going to put it out in September. We are in reality going to start out leaking some subject matter as early as subsequent month.
“The explanation I am hanging it out is that archival nature of writing a e-book made me glance into songs from other sessions of time. So probably the most songs is from early Gadget days, for instance, that I have by no means put out, that I would by no means labored with Gadget on. A few the songs are from my early 2007 /2008 solo file length, however did not are compatible the file [Elect The Dead, released in October 2007]..
“It is a fascinating retrospective of rock song that I have by no means launched from other instances, and it is known as Foundations mainly as a result of it is the founding of my musical existence,” he continues. “They are very attention-grabbing songs, very other from every different: one is truly heavy, one is like, truly innovative, there may be simply other components to every of them. However I feel they paintings in tandem.”
Gadget Of A Down co-headlined the second one staging of the In poor health New International pageant in Las Vegas final evening, April 27. The LA performed a 27-song set, which incorporated the primary performances since 2015 of CUBErt (from their 1998 self-titled debut album) and Bubbles (from 2002’s Scouse borrow This Album!). The band additionally co-headlined the pageant in its debut yr, 2023.
The quartet will play their 2d display of 2024 once they co-headline a one-off tournament with Deftones on the Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California, on August 17.
