A couple of years ago, after seeing the videos to Empty Walls and Sky Is Over, I decided to buy Elect The Dead. This is a great album. Serj is fantastic and has a Freddie Mercury like quality about him. Obviously not as talented vocally, but I found the album very original, varied, and ambitious.
On the heels of that, a guy at work made me copies of most, perhaps all, of the SOAD CDs. I must say that those are terrible, and are very restrictive for a true talent like Serj.
I will most likely get his new album. Borders Are is a pretty cool song.