Witness The Armed never get the recognition they deserve.

"only love" - is all i have for this album. This song pumps me up so much, i wanna immediately jump out and get crazy like the guy from "Paradise Day" video. Thank you guys for such joyful record.

Stop being so good, you're making the rest of us look bad.

See a new video and song of this band in my youtube feed makes me very happy, I can't wait for the new album, i really wish the best for this band, i love you guys. A big hug from Mexico. Sorry for my bad English but i really wanna write a support coment

@albertobeltra8910

3 жыл бұрын

creo es la segunda persona de mexico que veo que le gusta The Armed, saludos desde guadalajara

@themastershiter5193

3 жыл бұрын

Y conmigo somos 3

Only Love is a masterpiece.

I feel like I understand this band and I always find a pattern in their violent offerings. This song is a beautiful chaos.

the armed have always been a tough nut to crack for me, but this is just another level of chaotic. it sounds like 5 songs played at the same time. gonna need to listen to it like ten more times just to try to grasp what's going on here. still, looking forward to that new album.

@BlueCrayon77

6 жыл бұрын

First listen I was overwhelmed, but I've listened to it many times since and it all now has total clarity! Worth investing the time in it.

@beenz2022

6 жыл бұрын

I'm right there with ya. Been listening to the Armed just long enough to maybe start getting the first song I ever heard by them, which I experienced live. The shock I experienced was... interesting. Since then it's been a journey of attending pretty much every show that I possibly can. Being tossed over things. Onto things. Into people. It's an acquired taste, that's for sure. At first it was just noise.

@pietzsche

6 жыл бұрын

If you start with the earliest stuff and work forward, it'll all sound normal to you. Everything else sounds a bit lame tho

I love the album artwork! (and the song)

2018: An Armed Odyssey

Love you guys

I'm new to this. I fell in love with this album at first listen. I love synth punk and electronic music and I also love hardcore and metal.

two songs in, you just made me a fan. buying this on vinyl and digi.

@BlueCrayon77

6 жыл бұрын

You only need to buy the vinyl because the band force you to have the digital version for FREE!!! I've pre-ordered a T-shirt to make sure I send some money their way!

chaotic and brutal !! many thanks

Sick innovative album

this album's gonna be my summer

SMORGASBORD LIVES!

I Fucking Love This Band.

Every time I listen to this song I notice something new.

Yes.

Pure excellence.

Goddamn I'm loving the Genghis Tron vibe on this.

@leoncanton

5 жыл бұрын

totalmente

@hadrienlart

5 жыл бұрын

Kurt Ballou FTW

@ronnyreagan9320

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting that now two years after this comment Tony Wolski is the confirmed vocalist of the band's Reformation

You guys are the bees knees man

What I want from metal and/or hardcore is basically this level of intensity but it needs to be uplifting. This is like bathing in lava: you get incinerated, yes, but it feels so warm! Is there anyone other than The Armed who can deliver this?

@WeWantYouToStay

4 жыл бұрын

Dillinger, Strapping Young Lad

@ganondorfchampin

3 жыл бұрын

Fallujah

@AndrewChettri

3 жыл бұрын

Konflicts, yes please.

@ronnyreagan9320

3 жыл бұрын

That's always what I find myself asking when someone tells me about a band, well are they uplifting? Or how uplifting are they

@ronnyreagan9320

3 жыл бұрын

That's always what I find myself asking when someone tells me about a band, well are they uplifting? Or how uplifting are they

thanks

Holy shit I just got into this band, but what took me by surprise, was Keith from Electric Six show up on the screen

why the fuck haven't i heard of these guys before ULTRAPOP? i feel like i would've been a fan for way longer.

Heck fuckin' yes.

Hoooooly fkkkkkn shhhhhhittt!!

MBV meets Corpsegrinder. Love it.

Fucking yes!!!!!

It's funny that this song is so turned down by youtube loudness processing while it was meant to be more loud in the first place. Guys, your songs are great, just don't push them too much!

It sounds like they featured Dan Deacon!

@Tcoldsteel

Жыл бұрын

They like a collab

Wow

Holy fucking shit!!!!!!!!!!!!

holy fucksocks this is good

Ben Fuckin Koller

I’m researching this album trying to decipher what’s going on. I’m assuming they are referring to the last witness to Vincent Van Gogh. Also found out what Gerasimov is all about. A new kind of warfare. There is political and artistic references through out Only Love. I’m slowly putting pieces together to get a cohesive meaning behind such obscure lyrics that may not be so obscure as we think? Let’s see how far this rabbit hole goes. (Matrix reference) because this shits wild. If anyone has more info let a brother know.

@tre6316

2 жыл бұрын

Any updates? =)

Four years to dust Lost animals, animals Days folded down inanimate, animate Down and out Winding up my baby for show I don't know, did I kill them, maybe? Still I am bound And still I am bound Justice come swift Words to ignore A better love (better love) Men to forgive Never an animal (animal) All the red Streams of red vapour spew out Can't you hear the sirens of the rhythm? Still I am bound And still I am bound And still Witness for Vincent Not for your eyes Not for your eyes

Fucking good

avant garde... yeeeeaaaaaah. DaDa meets psychosis...

Take a minimum of three viewings daily until symptoms subside.

@SBmitch

6 жыл бұрын

pffft i wish i could only listen 3x daily but it's too good

@BlueCrayon77

6 жыл бұрын

3 is the minimum dose! There is no maximum dose! haha

B O I

Jesus fucking Christ this is amazing.

What the hell did I just listen to. It felt awesome though.

That was romantic as F.

waaw

Holy fucking caramel Christ on a butterscotch cross. Y'all wanna hit the range then grab some beers? I don't think I've ever known love before this moment...

I like when I don't have images of the band

I love how fucking noisy and out of character this song is. I always welcome a strange evolution over more of the same.

This is like watching The Primer on ketamine.

..puts headset on

Yeah just compress that mix until it's so loud that you can't hear what any instrument is playing and it sounds like white noise. Perfect.

@thearmed

6 жыл бұрын

Yes.

@jaydenrock

5 жыл бұрын

I enjoy it. My wife calls it a symphonic panic attack every time I put this LP on.

@bW9ydGhvbg

5 жыл бұрын

this but unironically

@kirkchan7726

3 жыл бұрын

This comment actually made me laugh out loud. 🤭

FUCK THIS WAS GREAT

band's capable of much bigger things than this, but still excited to hear the album in full, i bet this one will work way better in its context

@slomkary

6 жыл бұрын

Franz Grím, do you feel that the last album (Untitled) did not work in it's own context? If so, how/why?

@willpowerbroken

6 жыл бұрын

uh i don't really understand what you mean, how can an album work in a context of itself? i was talking about this particular single that it might sound better when placed after a couple of hard-hitting songs or whatever. i loved 'untitled' and one of the reasons why is that sequence from 'blessings' to 'polarizer', it's beautiful how they combined all the elements of their sound and more there. of course, there were some memorable tracks on that album as well ('forever scum' and that one where he screams "are you happy, are you fulfilled"), but those three really defined the album for me and if it wasn't for them, it'd kinda sound like an average chaotic hardcore release. we all know how good the armed are, from the early EP's to their albums, but sometimes it just feels like they're not trying to top themselves and they sound uninspired like here.

@willpowerbroken

6 жыл бұрын

i actually hope that this one is the album's closer because it def sounds like one

@corpseplower666

6 жыл бұрын

It's actually an opening track.

@willpowerbroken

6 жыл бұрын

NICE TO EAT YOU bizarre, but kinda intriguing. where'd you get the tracklisting?

Refract

Kinda wish the mix was a bit clearer, but this song is sick regardless

I want fckng timemachine to jump in April 27th

@SocialGore

6 жыл бұрын

I have one. Follow me to my basement

sounds like genghis tron

Black metal Muse.

geht so :/

Как же блять охуенно! Где же ты апрель!!!

Is These Are Lights not a thing any more?

@bradstultz6798

6 жыл бұрын

'These Are Lights' was The Armed's 2009 release.

@pietzsche

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's been taken down from everywhere tho, I want to try source it on vinyl.

@BFMBomb

6 жыл бұрын

Ssshhhhh. It'll all make sense eventually.

@pietzsche

6 жыл бұрын

That's a bit creepshow.

@Penetralia666

6 жыл бұрын

yeah i wonder too

almost as good as This is The Future and This is Now #celia3

чооооооооооооо??????????? вы живы??????

@sdfghjdfvttv6825

6 жыл бұрын

мы да, а вы?

that looks like a brass otter mercator knife and i feel like a complete twat writing that.

@Tcoldsteel

Жыл бұрын

I thought it might have been a Boker atlas but then looked at the date. I join you in your shame. 😆

Sonic Drugs.

REFRACT

When good musicians get wrecked on lsd and decide to make an album

i know it was an artistic decision to make the whole album with the high end cut out but i feel it really pulls from how amazing the album could be, untitled was so amazing but i feel only love is far more progressive, really sucks it sounds like shit when playing side by side

@stephenshoemaker6035

Жыл бұрын

Is that all they did to get the album to sound like this? I don't know anything about audio engineering, but I feel like the "noisiness" of the album can get attributes to at least a handful of factors between tracks. I could totally see myself "bouncing off" of this album for the same reasons you mentioned - I'd listened to "Untitled" at least once every other day, for several months straight, before listening to Only Love, and I think part of the reason I wasn't turned off from Only Love is that when I first heard Untitled, I wasn't entirely sure what to make of it, either. It sounded just as noisy to me as Only Love did on my first listen. With both albums, I found that if I can suppress the habitual impulse to dissect it, the song just starts to 'click' after the 2nd or 3rd listen. Idk if this will make sense or work for you, but for me personally, I tried to think of every instrument strictly as if it were a percussion instrument. Maybe grant the bass a provisional license to be a string instrument. As long as it was clear enough in the mix and not trying anything funny. I hope you'll find it more appealing if you give it another shot.