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It’s been some time since System of a Down has released new music, with their last singles, “Protect the Land” and “GenocidalHumanoidz”,<\/em> in 2020. But fans won’t have to wait long to hear the band’s frontman, Serj Tankian, as he announced a new album dropping this fall.<\/p>\n With a video announcement on Instagram<\/a>, Tankien’s Covers, Collaborations & Collages<\/em> will release on October 24, just a week before Halloween. Outside of System of a Down, Tankian has had a long career, with the new album including unreleased tracks, covers, and collaborations.<\/p>\n “I wanted to put out a record of collaborations I haven’t released before, along with covers, which I haven’t done,” said Tankian on his official website.<\/p>\n Some of the confirmed artists included on the album are Deadmau5, Bic Runga, and Lucas Vidal. The new album is set to feature a total of 10 songs, with Tankian releasing one song per week starting in August.<\/p>\n “Over the next ten weeks, I will release one song from the album per week and share the stories and inspirations behind each one,” he wrote on Instagram<\/p>\n The first song to be released was “Electric Dreams,” a song that is a “dark, trippy song with piano and delayed vocals reminiscent of Dead Can Dance or Pink Floyd.” With the latest new release being “A Seed” featuring Deadmau5.<\/p>\n Tankian explains the song, “begins with a haunting piano intro that opens itself to a polyrhythmic trip; a carousel that has no beginning or end. The lyrics are derived from \u2018Cool Gardens\u2019 \u2013 my first book of poetry.”<\/p>\n Part of the album will also include covers, with Tankian tackling “When Death Arrives” by Ruben Hakhverdyan. The musician also explained that the idea behind his 2024 Foundations<\/em> EP can be found in the new album, as both are composed of “archival recordings, some of them from way back.”<\/p>\n This story was originally reported by Men’s Journal<\/a> on Aug 29, 2025, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Men’s Journal as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n