System of a Down’s Serj Tankian is to release a special CD/DVD package in March.

‘Elect the Dead Symphony’ will feature Tankian’s performance at Auckland’s Town Hall in New Zealand where he performed and recorded orchestral interpretations of his acclaimed solo album ‘Elect the Dead’.

Joined by Auckland’s Philharmonic Orchestra, Tankian promises that “the arrangements are quite different to those on the record, including bonus tracks never played live”.

The DVD will also include rare and intimate backstage footage, as well as one-on-one interviews with Tankian and various members of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.

The track-listing for Elect the Dead Symphony is as follows:

1. Feed Us
2. Blue
3. Sky Is Over
4. Lie Lie Lie
5. Money
6. Baby
7. Gate 21
8. The Charade
9. Honking Antelope
10. Saving Us
11. Elect The Dead
12. Falling Stars
13. Beethoven’s C**t
14. Empty Walls

The DVD will be available from March 9 and is now available for pre-order.