Serj Tankian Hopes New Memoir Puts System of a Down Return Questions to Rest: ‘There’s No Magic Solution There’ (Exclusive)

Serj Tankian wants to put the proverbial period on the end of the sentence regarding the talk of System of a Down returning to record music together.

In his memoirs, Down with the System: Memoirs (of sorts)lead singer of the legendary metal group touches not only on the success of System of a Down, but also on the shortcomings as a working unit that caused the band to stop recording together after the release of the album in 2005. Hypnotize. In the time since, Tankian, 57, has been plagued with questions surrounding the group’s comeback, something he hopes his latest writing will help reduce.

“I shared a lot of things just so we wouldn’t discuss it ad nauseum in the press, or back and forth,” Tankian tells PEOPLE. “It’s just, here’s what happened. Let me take responsibility for my own shortcomings here, my own things that I’ve done wrong in the past, and let everyone do the same, in an honest but respectful way.”

Daron Malakian, Serj Tankian, Shavo Odadjian and John Dolmayan of System of a Down on December 13, 2014 in Inglewood, California.

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However, Tankian stresses that “as far as moving forward” with System of a Down, “there’s no magic bullet.”

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“We’ll see if that happens,” he says, leaving fans of the group with a glimmer of hope for the future. “If everyone’s on the same page, there’s really nothing else to say.”

Tankian also reflects that “there was a lot more written than published,” joking that the process tends to be an act of “throwing everything at the wall” and then “really minimizing and removing it so you can create a very strong body to work with.” .”

Serj Tankian, Daron Malakian, John Dolmayan and Shavo Odadjian of System of a Down on December 13, 2014 in Inglewood, California.

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“There are a lot of stories that have been thrown out, but I wouldn’t say most of them, if they can be thrown out, then they can be lost,” he says of his decision to trim the memoir down to its published state.

Tankian adds, “My conscience is clear in the sense that I shared stories that were valid. I shared stories that needed to be told, that had relevance to my life, my history, my ethics and principles and whatnot.”

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