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System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian may as well be known as solo artist Serj Tankian from now on. With the details of his second album revealed, I’m not expecting System to get back together anytime soon.

Tankian announced that his second album will be called Imperfect Harmonies and he’s producing it on his own at his home studio in L.A. It’s expected to come out in late summer (via Blabbermouth).

Tankian talked about the new album and how it differs from his first solo record Elect The Dead.

Elect the Dead is essentially a rock record with progressive melodic elements. Imperfect Harmonies could be classified as rock because it is punchy with many peaks throughout, but the instrumentation is somewhat different. Though there are live drums, bass, and some guitars, the driving aspects are electronic and orchestral. It’s quite unique in its sound palette. This is, in essence, music that has sat in the vat and matured to a ripe sensation and is now ready to serve.

I have been calling the music ‘electro-orchestral-jazz-rock’ because it has all of those aspects in prominence within the songs. A few are more stripped down, but the majority of the songs have this huge wall of sound presented in a way I’ve never heard before. It’s not common to have a song that is both electronic and orchestral since one is synthetic and the other organic, but I found a way of meshing a lot of these colors together.

Tankian’s newest album, Elect The Dead Symphony which features the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, is currently in stores right now.

Tags: Elect The Dead, Imperfect Harmonies, Serj Tankian