The Armed - Witness

[@santiagovargasguerrero9265]

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]

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

[@themastershiter5193]

Y conmigo somos 3

[@arekhee]

"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.

[@TeaNoSugar87]

Witness The Armed never get the recognition they deserve.

[@oggfuture]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@JORDANBAUMER]

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

[@corpseplower666]

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

[@rosalina9768]

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.

[@dkuresa1859]

2018: An Armed Odyssey

[@TrebeL_]

I love the album artwork! (and the song)

[@terminalglimmer]

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

[@leoncanton]

totalmente

[@hadrienlart]

Kurt Ballou FTW

[@ronnyreagan9320]

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

[@Gunflame]

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

[@Lolotrash]

Sick innovative album

[@pictures_on_silence]

chaotic and brutal !! many thanks

[@Olhado256]

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]

Dillinger, Strapping Young Lad

[@ganondorfchampin]

Fallujah

[@AndrewChettri]

Konflicts, yes please.

[@ronnyreagan9320]

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]

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

[@jaydenrock]

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]

Any updates? =)

[@Deminotaur]

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

[@BlueCrayon77]

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!

[@TheMcCorduroy]

It sounds like they featured Dan Deacon!

[@Tcoldsteel]

They like a collab

[@linuscontinental2223]

this album's gonna be my summer

[@beastwishes]

SMORGASBORD LIVES!

[@Caldo42069]

Love you guys

[@DeamonGroup]

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

[@optimuscrime8965]

Yes.

[@santiagovargasguerrero9265]

Fucking yes!!!!!

[@a-thousand-leaves]

Wow

[@conblurgh]

Heck fuckin' yes.

[@planetwinnebago4304]

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

[@gnzllr]

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!

[@Житинеможливо]

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

[@Tcoldsteel]

MBV meets Corpsegrinder. Love it.

[@openoceanrecords6984]

You guys are the bees knees man

[@DattMamoneOfficial]

thanks

[@guidobarandiaran1890]

Ben Fuckin Koller

[@chuzedaredbluepill8679]

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

[@FlyingPirahna1]

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

[@fattcamp28]

I Fucking Love This Band.

[@Max_Kelly]

Pure excellence.

[@ChadQuallo]

Hoooooly fkkkkkn shhhhhhittt!!

[@luisandresmezavelez5327]

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

[@Mr_Beebird]

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

[@RydCook]

holy fucksocks this is good

[@jordansobolew1661]

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]

Yes.

[@jaydenrock]

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

[@bW9ydGhvbg]

this but unironically

[@kirkchan7726]

This comment actually made me laugh out loud. 🤭

[@BlueCrayon77]

Take a minimum of three viewings daily until symptoms subside.

[@SBmitch]

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

[@BlueCrayon77]

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

[@GoToBedSheeva]

Jesus fucking Christ this is amazing.

[@PeKaNo]

Fucking good

[@JakeLaakkonen]

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

[@andrey9507]

That was romantic as F.

[@willpowerbroken]

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]

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

[@willpowerbroken]

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]

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

[@corpseplower666]

It's actually an opening track.

[@willpowerbroken]

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

[@bjscarberry2927]

This is like watching The Primer on ketamine.

[@arzeb666]

waaw

[@pietzsche]

Is These Are Lights not a thing any more?

[@bradstultz6798]

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

[@pietzsche]

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

[@BFMBomb]

Ssshhhhh. It'll all make sense eventually.

[@pietzsche]

That's a bit creepshow.

[@Penetralia666]

yeah i wonder too

[@SprinterWagon]

..puts headset on

[@giacomopiccinini9157]

B O I

[@Quantarameira]

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

[@sdfghjdfvttv6825]

мы да, а вы?

[@ReggiePostlethwaite]

FUCK THIS WAS GREAT

[@leoncanton]

sounds like genghis tron

[@sdfghjdfvttv6825]

geht so :/

[@jareddryden6613]

Refract

[@gmpln]

I want fckng timemachine to jump in April 27th

[@SocialGore]

I have one. Follow me to my basement

[@thedarkirish]

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

[@rjwdofficial]

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

[@ironwoodkid2608]

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

[@progresywny2070]

Black metal Muse.

[@barnsgotanowl]

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...

[@TheCraigrobson]

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

[@Tcoldsteel]

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

[@XXzombieslayer666]

Sonic Drugs.

[@Ezraph2001]

REFRACT

[@kellanmurakami5340]

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

[@DrGeta666]

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]

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.