Serjical Strike Records

Serjical Strike Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates under Republic Records.

Serjical Strike Records
Parent company	Universal Music Group
Founded	April, 2001
Founder	Serj Tankian
Distributor(s)	Republic Records (In the US) EMI Records (Outside the US) Columbia Records and The Orchard (select releases) Woah Dad! and The Orchard (Serj Tankian releases)
Genre	Rock
Country of origin	US
Official website	www.serjicalstrike.com/

Background

Serjical Strike was founded in April 2001 by Serj Tankian (lead singer of System of a Down), and has cast away the restrictions of large scale record labels to create a 'unique and imaginative' label that provides a large spectrum of musical talent. In the previous five years Serj and the team have signed various bands of differing styles; Bad Acid Trip, Kittens for Christian, Slow Motion Reign, and Fair to Midland, and at the same time a good relationship with Columbia records has been built up. Serj also worked with Arto Tuncboyaciyan on a collaboration album named Serart out of Serjical Strike. The live album/DVD Axis of Justice: Concert Series Volume 1 and the Buckethead & Friends' 2005 release Enter the Chicken were under the Serjical Strike label. Serj Tankian's debut solo album Elect the Dead was also on Serjical Strike Records in addition to Reprise Records. In August 2007 Serjical Strike started its own YouTube account.^[1]

With each release, the goal of our label is to create an oasis of diversity and uniqueness within the industry where fans of all music can find sanctuary and solace from the drab, carbon-copy musical plagues that sweep through commercial culture. With the ever-evolving consciousness of today's music fan, we hope to be an amoebic representation of the myriad of bands and musical styles that one person can enjoy. With each new band we sign, we hope that it becomes harder and harder to describe Serjical Strike Records as being anything other than an 'Arts Label'.^[2]

Artists

Current artists

• Arto Tunçboyacıyan
• Axis of Justice
• Bad Acid Trip
• Buckethead
• The Cause
• Flying Cunts of Chaos
• Khatchadour Tankian
• Kittens for Christian
• Serart
• Serj Tankian (solo music)
• Slow Motion Reign
• Viza

Former artists

• Mt. Helium
• Armenian Navy Band
• Death by Stereo
• Fair to Midland
• Ontronik Khachaturian

Releases

Year	Artist	Release	Notes
2003	Serart	Serart Sampler	Promotional release for Serart
		Serart	Re-released in 2009
	Kittens for Christian	Privilege of Your Company
2004	Bad Acid Trip	For the Weird by the Weird	Reissue
		Lynch the Weirdo
	Axis of Justice	Axis of Justice: Concert Series Volume 1
2005	Buckethead & Friends	Enter the Chicken	Reissued in 2008
2006	Slow Motion Reign	Slow Motion Reign
	Fair to Midland	The Drawn and Quartered EP
2007		Fables from a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True
	Serj Tankian	Elect the Dead
2008		Lie Lie Live	Rhapsody exclusive digital EP
2009	Death by Stereo	Death Is My Only Friend
	Bad Acid Trip	Symbiotic Slavery
2010	Serj Tankian	Elect the Dead Symphony
		Imperfect Harmonies
2012		Harakiri
2013		Orca
		Jazz-Iz-Christ

Other albums available on the Serjical Strike website

• Bigelf — Money Machine

See also

• List of record labels