Serj Tankian To Release New Studio Album, Harakiri, 7/10

Harakiri, the new studio album from singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet and political activist Serj Tankian is set to be released July 10^th on Reprise Records/Serjical Strike. Look for a teaser video with a snippet of the first single, "Figure It Out," on Serj's website next week. 

Harakiri, a Japanese word meaning ritual suicide, is the follow up to 2010's critically acclaimedImperfect Harmonies and the third solo release from the System Of A Down frontman. As with 2007'sElect the Dead and Imperfect Harmonies, Serj produced Harakiri himself at his home studio in Los Angeles. He tried to approach writing a little differently this time around "I used the Apple iPad as a songwriting instrument to sketch out three of the songs on the record" explains Serj. "We must trick ourselves into writing in different ways to get unexpected results." The album will also feature performances by Serj's touring band, The F.C.C. - Dan Monti on guitar, Mario Pagliarulo on bass, and Troy Zeigler on drums. Dan Monti is also co-mixing and co-engineering the album with Serj.  The album is mastered by Vlado Meller (Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kanye West).