SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian has premiered his stellar new song Elasticity.

 

The title track from Serj’s upcoming EP – out March 19, according to the smoke signals coming from his backyard – it was apparently written for a – Aarrgghh!! Frustration levels off the scale! – System album that never quite got off the ground.

 

And it sounds like it. Where the admittedly great Genocidal Humanoidz and Protect The Land played it relatively straight by SYSTEM’s standards, this finds Serj hoisting his freak flag high.

 

And the video? Kafka-esque waiting rooms? Bottles full of urine? Singing tattoos? We're sure there's some meaning to it, but we're only on our second coffee of the day, and our brains haven't quite worked it out yet.

It’s a tremendous song, and it’s no massive leap to imagine what it would sound like if System had given it their own stamp. Which only makes us even more depressed at the lack of a reunion.