{"id":611,"date":"2010-08-11T10:38:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T17:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=611"},"modified":"2010-08-11T10:38:02","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T17:38:02","slug":"serj-tankian-elect-the-dead-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/serj-tankian-elect-the-dead-symphony\/","title":{"rendered":"SERJ TANKIAN + Elect the Dead Symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Elect-the-Dead-Symphony-M2-Review-MarApr2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-612\" title=\"Elect-the-Dead-Symphony-M2-Review-MarApr2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Elect-the-Dead-Symphony-M2-Review-MarApr2010.jpg\" alt=\"Elect the Dead Symphony\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Elect-the-Dead-Symphony-M2-Review-MarApr2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Elect-the-Dead-Symphony-M2-Review-MarApr2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>S<\/strong><strong>ERJ TANKIAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Elect the Dead Symphony<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em>[Reprise]<\/p>\n<p>Armed with guitars, keyboards and drums, his usual weapons of choice, Serj Tankian approaches songwriting like guerrilla warfare. As a solo artist and leader of System of a Down, the Armenian-American singer and multi-instrumentalist makes music that hits, recoils, changes shape, then hits again. His best songs marry n\u00fc-metal aggression and Old World mystery. This live album, recorded in March 2009, finds Tankian teaming with New Zealand\u2019s 70-piece Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra to rework songs from his solo debut, <em>Elect the Dead<\/em>. With its frequent references to war, poverty, globalization and other big ideas, the album is a good candidate for the symphonic treatment. Tankian essentially transforms his alt-rock songs into James Cameron film scores, and while the results are sometimes hokey, the album demands its air of pomposity. After all, if Tankian doesn\u2019t overshoot, he might as well hold his fire. \u2013 Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n<div><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SERJ TANKIAN Elect the Dead Symphony [Reprise] Armed with guitars, keyboards and drums, his usual weapons of choice, Serj Tankian approaches songwriting like guerrilla warfare. As a solo artist and leader of System of a Down, the Armenian-American singer and multi-instrumentalist makes music that hits, recoils, changes shape, then hits again. His best songs marry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,276,271,277,275],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}