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The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed

The Armed

The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed

Sixth full-length album from the Detroit hardcore punk collective

ADM rating[?]

7.3

Label
Sargent House
UK Release date
01/08/2025
US Release date
01/08/2025
  1. 9.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    For long-term appreciators of The Armed’s unhinged chaos, there’s plenty to dig into. It’s a fleshed out return that takes from every iteration of the band, and offers an insatiably wicked culmination of these experiences and sonic explorations
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  2. 8.5 |   Northern Transmissions

    The collective fulfills their prophecy, juggling the intensity they have become known for with ease, all while fusing the shards of noisy dissonance and melody with fury. It’s not simply a rebellion, it’s a ritual
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  3. 8.0 |   All Music

    The Armed gleefully close the door on whatever shreds of accessibility they dallied with on their last few albums before it, but this unrelenting barrage of excitement and glorious confusion is a welcome replacement
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  4. 7.8 |   Paste Magazine

    The Armed’s latest does exactly what it says on the tin, and does not coax us onto our asses so much as knock us flat on them, all the better to get us to shut up and listen
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  5. 7.8 |   Pitchfork

    The Detroit collective’s sixth album faces down the apocalypse with some of its heaviest music yet: visceral, vital, and filled with desperate, righteous anger
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  6. 6.9 |   Beats Per Minute

    The Armed are on the verge of parodying themselves, their version of parody involving copious amounts of accelerant and old-school sacrilege: effigies of God and the Statue of Liberty erected in a vacant lot and set on fire
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  7. 5.0 |   Far Out

    The second half of the record has multiple truly enjoyable moments, with ‘Heathen’ being another notable highlight. It is just a struggle to get to those tracks, fighting through the first half of the record
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