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It's very wide sounding — lots of different sounding instruments. The excitement I had making this record was the same excitement I had making the first System record.

— Serj Tankian, in an interview with Billboard.com [13]

Marketing and touring

The initial single from the album was a two-track promo including "Empty Walls" and "The Unthinking Majority", released on September 10, 2007. Tankian immediately appeared on MTV's "You Rock the Deuce" program. Meanwhile, a music video of "Feed Us" was released in Sweden [14] and on UK MTV. [15] The album was released on October 22, 2007, and opened at number 4 with 66,000 US units sold according to the Billboard 200 trade listing. [16] By September 2010, the album had sold 319,000 copies total. [17]

Music videos of the album's songs were each filmed by discrete directors. Tankian revealed: "I asked each of the directors for their visual interpretation of my work. They were asked not to write treatments and that they could make whatever they liked. The results have been overwhelmingly amazing". [18] Initially, some videos were released as limited edition premiums. All videos (with exception of "Money") were later freely offered on Tankian's website and his YouTube channel. Some of these "official videos" were alternate versions released one version at a time, suggesting an incrementally evolving narrative.

Collectible versions of the album include an instrumental disc offered by Reprise and Serjical Strike Records, and the "final master" from Reprise intended for specific journalists and reviewers. That embargoed disc was labeled "Smart Talk" [a coded reference to the artist's own name]. [19] Previously an undated, un-mastered 'Smart Talk' promo featured these same 'final versions' of the songs, but the sequence of tracks ten and eleven was juxtaposed.

An Elect the Dead tour commenced October 12, 2007, at Chicago's Vic Theater. Tankian cautioned fans this production featured a new band, Flying Cunts of Chaos (a.k.a. the F.C.C.), which was not promoting the System of a Down.

In 2009, Tankian did a symphonic tour with an orchestra in order to perform symphonic renditions of most of the songs from Elect the Dead. A recording of this tour titled Elect the Dead Symphony was released on February 23, 2010, in the US.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Serj Tankian.

Elect the Dead
FinalElect The Dead.jpg
Studio album by
Serj Tankian
ReleasedOctober 22, 2007
RecordedSerjical Strike Dungeons, The Pass (Los Angeles)
Genre
Length45:03
Label
Producer Serj Tankian
Serj Tankian chronology
Serart
(2003)		Elect the Dead
(2007)		 Lie Lie Live
(2008)
Serj Tankian studio album chronology
Elect the Dead
(2007)		 Imperfect Harmonies
(2010)
No.TitleLength
1."Empty Walls"3:49
2."The Unthinking Majority"3:46
3."Money"3:53
4."Feed Us"4:31
5."Saving Us"4:41
6."Sky Is Over"2:57
7."Baby"3:31
8."Honking Antelope"3:50
9."Lie Lie Lie"3:33
10."Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition"4:23
11."Beethoven's Cunt"3:13
12."Elect the Dead"2:54
Total length:45:03
iTunes and Japanese version bonus track
No.TitleLength
13."The Reverend King"2:49
Total length:47:52
Special edition bonus disc
No.TitleLength
1."Blue"2:45
2."Empty Walls" (Acoustic)3:46
3."Feed Us" (Acoustic)4:21
4."Falling Stars"3:05
Total length:14:17

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2007)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [20] 19
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [21] 5
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [22] 64
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [23] 50
Canadian Albums ( Billboard ) [24] 3
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [25] 45
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [26] 12
French Albums (SNEP) [27] 23
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [28] 10
Italian Albums (FIMI) [29] 43
Japanese Album Charts (Oricon) [30] 55
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [31] 14
Scottish Albums (OCC) [32] 33
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [33] 36
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [34] 11
UK Albums (OCC) [35] 26
US Billboard 200 [36] 4

References

  1. ↑ "Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead Review". IGN . October 22, 2007. Archived from the original on February 14, 2012.
  2. ↑ Partridge, Kenneth (August 11, 2010). "SERJ TANKIAN + Elect the Dead Symphony". M Music & Musicians Magazine. Retrieved November 1, 2022.
  3. 1 2 AllMusic review
  4. 1 2 "CD: Serj Tankian, Elect the Dead". The Guardian . October 25, 2007. Archived from the original on December 2, 2020.
  5. ↑ SERJ TANKIAN Paints Grim Picture With 'Sky Is Over' - Jan. 16, 2008
  6. ↑ "Elect The Dead". Metacritic.
  7. ↑ "Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead - Album Review". AbsolutePunk. August 3, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Elect the Dead - Serj Tankian". Billboard . Archived from the original on October 23, 2007.
  9. ↑ "CG: serj". Robert Christgau.
  10. ↑ "Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead Review". IGN. Archived from the original on November 1, 2007. Retrieved October 30, 2007.
  11. ↑ "Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead Review". Music Emissions. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved December 5, 2007.
  12. ↑ Serj Tankian biography on SOADFans fansite Archived August 16, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  13. ↑ Graff, Gary (April 27, 2007). "SOAD's Serj Tankian Finishing Up Solo Debut". Billboard.com . Retrieved October 19, 2024.
  14. ↑ Swedish MTV
  15. ↑ UK MTV Archived February 1, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  16. ↑ "Blabbermouth.Net - Serj Tankian, Rob Zombie, Soilwork, Exodus, Skindred First-Week Sales Revealed". Roadrunnerrecords.com. Archived from the original on November 2, 2007. Retrieved February 14, 2012.
  17. ↑ "Upcoming Releases". HITS Daily Double. Retrieved February 14, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  18. ↑ System of a Down Frontman To Post Videos For Each Track On Forthcoming Solo Album Archived June 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  19. ↑ Picture of the Elect The Dead promo CD-R [ permanent dead link ]
  20. ↑ "Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  21. ↑ "Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  22. ↑ "Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  23. ↑ "Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  24. ↑ "Serj Tankian Chart History (Canadian Albums)". Billboard . Retrieved November 20, 2025.
  25. ↑ "Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  26. ↑ "Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  27. ↑ "Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  28. ↑ "Offizielle Deutsche Charts" (in German). offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  29. ↑ "Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  30. ↑ "エレクト ザ・デッド | サージ タンキアン" (in Japanese). Oricon . Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  31. ↑ "Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  32. ↑ "Official Scottish Albums Chart on 28/10/2007 – Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  33. ↑ "Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  34. ↑ "Serj Tankian - Elect The Dead". Hung Medien. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  35. ↑ "Serj Tankian | full Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved October 31, 2021.
  36. ↑ "Serj Tankian Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard . Retrieved October 31, 2021.
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