{"id":549108,"date":"2026-07-29T06:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/549108\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T06:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T06:24:16","slug":"hear-system-of-a-downs-serj-tankian-team-with-brendan-angelides-for-a-cover-of-david-bowies-im-afraid-of-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/549108\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear System Of A Down&#8217;s Serj Tankian Team With Brendan Angelides For A Cover Of David Bowie&#8217;s &#8220;I&#8217;m Afraid Of Americans&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Serj Tankian, vocalist of multi-platinum Armenian-American n\u00fc-metal stars System Of A Down, is back with another collaborative track this year. This time out he\u2019s paired up with electronic musician\/composer Brendan Angelides for a cover of David Bowie\u2018s 1995 track \u201cI\u2019m Afraid Of Americans\u201c. Metalheads might be familiar with that cut, given Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor would later guest on a remixed version of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Angelides had the following to say of covering this once again topical song and getting the chance to get to work with Tankian:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI always loved Trent Reznor\u2018s remix of Bowie\u2018s original. I\u2019ve been working on a new album for the past year and as this particular beat came together, I unexpectedly started singing those words on top. The first person I thought to collab with was Serj Tankian. Serj has been an inspiration to me forever and I\u2019m now lucky to call him a friend. The video is built from our childhood photos. We filmed ourselves to drive the motion capture, then face-tracked, composited, and had a mosh party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s the next single for my upcoming album \u201cCan You Feel The End Begin?\u201c. I keep thinking about what happens to creative communities during authoritarian times. It\u2019s half of what this upcoming album is about. Can\u2019t wait to share it with you in a couple of weeks. Out on Aug 14th.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serj Tankian, vocalist of multi-platinum Armenian-American n\u00fc-metal stars System Of A Down, is back with another collaborative track&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69,269621,147058],"class_list":["post-549108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-serj-tankian","tag-system-of-a-down"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}