in early july 2011, tankian posted a video on youtube showing two samples of new songs. during the video he said "next year". in multiple interviews he has stated that he has been working on a rock record that will be released in 2011, and some side projects including jazz, electronic, and symphonic records. it was later confirmed that his third album would be called "harakiri" and will be released on july 10, 2012. this will be the first of four new albums to be released in the near future. the first single from "harakiri", "figure it out", was released on may 1. a music video for the song appeared on tankian's official youtube page. a second single from the album, "cornucopia", was released on june 10. a third single, title track "harakiri", was made available as a preorder bonus from tankian's website on june 20.