Serj Tankian Hopes New Memoir Puts System of a Down Return Questions to Rest: ‘There’s No Magic Solution There’ (Exclusive)

"I shared a lot of stuff just so we wouldn't be discussing it ad nauseum in the press, or back and forth," Tankian highlights

Serj Tankian wants to put a proverbial period at the end of the sentence regarding the conversation of System of a Down's return to recording music together.

In his memoir, Down with the System: A Memoir (of Sorts), the iconic metal group's lead singer touches on not only the successes of System of a Down, but the deficiencies as a working unit that led the band to cease recording together after the release of 2005's Hypnotize. In the time since, Tankian, 57, has been consistently battered with questions regarding the group's return, something that he hopes his latest written work will aid in lessening.

"I shared a lot of stuff just so we wouldn't be discussing it ad nauseum in the press, or back and forth," Tankian tells PEOPLE. "That is just, here's what happened. Let me take responsibility for my own deficiencies here, my own things that I did wrong in the past and let everyone do the same, in a truthful but respectful manner."

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However, Tankian highlights that "as far as moving forward" with System of a Down, "there's no magic solution there."

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"We will see if that is something that happens," he says, leaving a glimmer of hope for fans of the group into the future. "If everyone's on the same page, there's really nothing else to tell."

Tankian also addresses that "there was a lot more writing than was published," joking that the process tends to be an act of "throw everything at the wall" and then "really minimizing and taking out so you can create a very strong body of work."

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"There are a lot of stories that were taken out, but I wouldn't say most of them were, if it can be taken out, then you can lose it," he says of his decision to trim the memoir to its published state.

Tankian adds, "My conscience is clear in the sense that I shared the stories that were valid. I shared the stories that needed to be told, that had an importance to my life, my history, my ethics and principles, and the rest."

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