We're likely never getting a new System Of A Down record, but at least we can hear some of the stuff that never made it to one of the band's five albums.
System Of A Down vocalist Serj Tankian is now streaming his new single "A.F. Day", originally written sometime early on in System Of A Down's career. "This is a song I wrote in the early days of System Of A Down that I never released," said Tankian. "The majority of the instrumentation and vocals are recordings from that time. Dystopian in mood, it's a reflection of the angst and anti-authoritarian attitude I had to conformity."
"A.F. Day" is from Tankian's forthcoming EP Foundations, which he told Metal Hammer earlier this year is largely a retrospective release in tandem with his new book Down With The System.
"The reason I'm putting it out is that archival nature of writing a book made me look into songs from different periods of time. So one of the songs is from early System days, for example, that I've never put out, that I'd never worked with System on. A couple of the songs are from my early 2007 /2008 solo record period, but didn't fit the record [Elect The Dead].
"It's an interesting retrospective of rock music that I've never released from different times, and it's called Foundations basically because it's the founding of my musical life. They're very interesting songs, very different from each other: one is really heavy, one is like, really progressive, there's just different elements to each of them. But I think they work in tandem."
