“"Here’s my song for the free/No, it’s not about praise and publicity," Serj Tankian sings. He ain’t kidding: Serj Tankian is beholden to no master beyond his own outsize ambitions. The System of a Down frontman’s second solo disc sets lefty harangues ("Corporate-ocrasy, what a hypocrisy!") to symphonic, electronica-tinged prog-rock that makes SOAD’s wildest metal […]”
