Year in Rock 2012 Nominee: Serj Tankian
SERJ
TANKIAN
Harakiri
From:
Harakiri
Released:
July 10
Seven years
removed from his last album with them, Serj Tankian is still known by
most as “the guy from System of a Down”. Over these last seven
years, he's tried to distance himself somewhat from SOAD and prove
that he's a formidable songwriter and performer outside the manic
metal attack of the band that made him famous. Results have been
mixed until this year's Harakiri. On it, the songs that sound
most like System are also perhaps the weakest; lead single Figure
It Out was obviously penned with SOAD fans in mind, but its
profanity-laden Ministry-esque delivery, while potent on its own,
detracts from the rest of the album. The real highlight on Harakiri
is its title track, a soaring gem that doesn't let its riffs get in
the way of a well-written song.
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