the official tour for "elect the dead" commenced on october 12, 2007 with a show at chicago's vic theater. roughly one thousand people attended the first concert. although tankian had stated he would not be performing any material by his former band, system of a down, he performed "charades" and "blue", songs co-written by daron malakian, the guitarist of system of a down. "blue" had previously appeared on their fourth demo tape in 1998, and charades was attempted during the 2005 mezmerize/hypnotize sessions, but never released (although a short video clip of tankian and dolmayan playing the song in a recording studio was featured on "the making of "mezmerize"/"hypnotize""). although it is originally a song restricted to piano and vocals, tankian used his backing band, the flying cunts of chaos (f.c.c.), to provide guitars, drums, and bass. the songs "beethoven's cunt", empty walls, and sky is over are available as downloadable content for "rock band". a portion of the song "lie lie lie" is currently featured in the opening title sequence of nbc's "fear itself", a horror anthology show from the creators of "masters of horror", and can be viewed on the show's main website.