Elect the Dead
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Date: 2022-01-07

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#2007_debut_albums
#Reprise_Records_albums
#Serj_Tankian_albums
#Albums_produced_by_Serj_Tankian
#Serjical_Strike_Records_albums
Elect the Dead is the debut album by rock musician Serj Tankian, lead singer and founding member of Armenian-American metal band System of a Down.
It was released on October 22, 2007.
Alongside Tankian appears Armenian-American coloratura Ani Maldjian, drummers John Dolmayan from System of a Down and Bryan "Brain" Mantia of Primus and Guns N' Roses' Dan Monti on guitars, as well as a string section featuring Antonio Pontarelli.
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 and on UK MTV. The album was released October 22, 2007 and opened at number 4 with 66,000 US units sold according to the Billboard 200 trade listing.
By September 2010, the album had sold 319,000 copies total.
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".
Initially some videos were released as limited edition premiums.
All videos 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 incrementally evolving narrative.
Collectible versions of the album include an instrumental disc offered by Serjical Strike/Reprise 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].
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