System Of A Down Side Group Serart Gears Up

With a new System of a Down record not due until “maybe 2004,” frontman Serj Tankian is currently at work with another band, his side project Serart — the collaboration between Tankian and multi-instrumentalist, avant-garde folk artist and fellow Armenian Arto Tuncboyaciyan. “When I saw Tuncboyaciyan and how artistic and how creative he was,” Tankian tells RollingStone.com, “I was just driven to want to do something with him.”