The Armed have announced a new album, The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed, due August 1 via Sargent House (pre-order). And after gradually going in a poppier direction that peaked with 2023’s Perfect Saviors, lead single/opening track “Well Made Play” finds The Armed returning to vicious metallic hardcore in a way that they really haven’t done since their 2015 album Untitled. Yet “Well Made Play” doesn’t feel like a return to form, more like a new approach to something The Armed have had in their back pockets the whole time, with a skronky punk-jazz sax freakout to boot. Check out the song and its Christopher Gruse-directed video below.
Vocalist Tony Wolski says this album is “music for a statistically wealthy population that somehow can’t afford food or medicine—endlessly scrolling past vacation photos, gym selfies, and images of child amputees in the same feed. It reflects the dissociation required just to exist in that reality.” Musicians on the album include Ken Szymanski, Patrick Shiroishi, Urian Hackney, Kurt Ballou, Troy Van Leeuwen, Meghan O’Neil, Cara Drolshagen, Tony Wolski, Brian Wolski, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, Ben Chisholm, Prostitute, Zach Weeks, Mark Guiliana, Kayleigh Goldsworthy, and Derek Coburn.
The Armed also announced shows in nine major cities, all of which feature support from album contributor Prostitute. Tickets go on sale Friday (5/23) at 10 AM local. All dates, including a show at NYC’s LPR on August 15, are listed below.
Tracklist
Well Made Play
Purity Drag
Kingbreaker
Grace Obscure
Broken Mirror ft. Prostitute
Sharp Teeth
I Steal What I Want
Local Millionaire
Gave up
Heathen
A More Perfect Design
The Armed / Prostitute — 2025 Tour Dates
8.14 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
8.15 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
8.16 – Washington DC – The Atlantis
9.16 – Seattle, WA – SUBSTATION
9.17 – Portland – Mississippi Studios
9.19 – San Francisco – Rickshaw Stop
9.20 – Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy Theatre
12.12 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
12.13 – Detroit, El Club