System of a Down’s Serj Tankian announces memoir, Down with the System

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System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian will tell his life story in a new book called Down with the System.

Subtitled A Memoir (Of Sorts), Down with the Sickness, it “retraces Serj’s remarkable and unlikely journey, and explores what it’s taught him — about music, about art, about activism, and about himself,” according to its description.

“I had a blast working on this accidentally hatched philosophical memoir,” Tankian says. “It’s given me the unique opportunity to deep dive into my family history, my own motivations from a young age and lessons I didn’t know I had learned.”

Down with the System will be released May 14 and is available to preorder now.