Elect the Dead

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It's very wide sounding — lots of different sounding instruments. The excitement I had making this record was the same excitement I had making the first System record.

—  Serj Tankian

An Elect the Dead tour commenced October 12, 2007 at Chicago's Vic Theater. Tankian cautioned fans this production featured a new band, Flying Cunts of Chaos (a.k.a. The F.C.C.), which was not promoting the System of a Down.

In 2009, Tankian did a symphonic tour with an orchestra in order to perform symphonic renditions of most of the songs from Elect the Dead. A recording of this tour titled Elect the Dead Symphony was released February 23, 2010 in the US.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Serj Tankian

Elect the Dead
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Studio album by
Serj Tankian
ReleasedOctober 22, 2007
RecordedSerjical Strike Dungeons, The Pass (Los Angeles)
Genre
Length45:03
Label Serjical Strike, Reprise
Producer Serj Tankian
Serj Tankian chronology
Serart
(2003)		Elect the Dead
(2007)		 Lie Lie Live
(2008)
Serj Tankian studio album chronology
Elect the Dead
(2007)		 Imperfect Harmonies
(2010)
No.TitleLength
1."Empty Walls"3:49
2."The Unthinking Majority"3:46
3."Money"3:53
4."Feed Us"4:31
5."Saving Us"4:41
6."Sky Is Over"2:57
7."Baby"3:31
8."Honking Antelope"3:50
9."Lie Lie Lie"3:33
10."Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition"4:23
11."Beethoven's Cunt"3:13
12."Elect the Dead"2:54
Total length:45:03
iTunes and Japanese version bonus tracks
No.TitleLength
13."The Reverend King"2:49
Total length:47:52
Special edition bonus disc
No.TitleLength
1."Blue"2:45
2."Empty Walls" (Acoustic)3:46
3."Feed Us" (Acoustic)4:21
4."Falling Stars"3:05
Total length:14:17

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2007)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [19] 19
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [20] 5
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [21] 64
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [22] 50
Canadian Albums ( Billboard ) [23] 4
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [24] 45
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista) [25] 12
French Albums (SNEP) [26] 23
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [27] 10
Italian Albums (FIMI) [28] 43
Japanese Album Charts (Oricon) [29] 55
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [30] 14
Scottish Albums (OCC) [31] 33
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan) [32] 36
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) [33] 11
UK Albums (OCC) [34] 26
US Billboard 200 [35] 4

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