Album Review: THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED by The Armed

The Detroit collective composed of god knows who - but most definitely vocalist Tony Wolski - have over the last decade spent their time constructing and deconstructing various concepts by way of ludicrously crushing hardcore, including sculpting themselves in the gym (2021's ULTRAPOP) and exposing the wires and warts (2023's Perfect Saviors). Now, they're presenting their chaotic statement on modernity. THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED is also The Armed turning back towards their past inhabiting of guttural, raw bents and emotions, lashing them with more distortion and thrilling explorations for maximum shock and awe.

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There was briefly a time in the mid-70s when the prospective unmasking of wrestler Kendo Nagasaki seemed to be all the British public could talk or think about. In December 1975, Big Daddy whipped off Kendo's famous black velvet disguise to reveal the not-so-famous Shropshire-born wrestler Peter Thornley. Thornley somehow still managed to keep his identity under wraps for a further two years before initiating his own unmasking ceremony at Wolverhampton Civic Hall in 1977.

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