Bankrupt moralism. Cultish partisanism. Mindless consumption of unreality. Merciless grift. The Armed see our troubling trajectory, and with THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED, the band’s sixth album, they don’t merely whisper their discontent; they detonate it. This is a statement of warning and condemnation, delivered with feverish intensity across 11 tracks of blistering, frenetic noise-rock. Think “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” only with a vitriolic urgency amplified to eleven, because the rain is falling NOW. The flood is on.

The fractured synths, distorted guitars, and Tony Wolski’s furious vocals on album opener “Well Made Play” signal the emergency from the outset, frantically turning order into chaos and moral clarity into indictment. Every moment pulses with disappointment and disdain. From there, the album combusts as it careens. It’s more demolition than careful construction: gritty, jagged, raw, and uncomfortably alive. Blast beats detonate without warning. Dissonance looms like a constant smog cloud. All melody is contaminated — beautiful but bruised. When the band teases pop sensibilities, such as on “Sharp Teeth” and “I Steal What I Want,” it promptly and unmercifully stomps them out with torrents of feedback and rage. It's a visceral, unnerving experience, like the sound of a world unraveling.