The Armed announce new album and 2025 tour dates

Detroit’s The Armed have announced a new album. Out August 1, via Sargent House, The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed follows their 2023 album, Perfect Saviors, and is led by the single “Well Made Play.” Watch the song’s accompanying music video below.

The title of The Armed’s new song references the 19th-century “well-made play,” a dramatic form built on clean narratives wrapped up with moral clarity. That theme runs into the accompanying video, which features two men in chains in a vicious fight to win a jet ski.

“While we chase distractions and small comforts, we’re pushed into endless competition with each other—often while those with real power take freely, right in front of us.” vocalist Tony Wolski said in a press statement.

Wolski expanded on the dissatisfaction that underpins the band’s sixth album, saying, “It’s music for a statistically wealthy population that somehow can’t afford food or medicine—endlessly scrolling past vacation photos, gym selfies, and images of child amputees in the same feed. It reflects the dissociation required just to exist in that reality.”

In addition to the new music, The Armed have also announced an upcoming headline tour. The band will perform in Boston, New York City, DC, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Detroit throughout the remainder of the year. Support on the tour will come from Prostitute. Tickets for the tour go on sale this Friday, May 23, at 10 am local time.

August 14 – Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair
August 15 – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
August 16 – Washington DC – The Atlantis
September 16 – Seattle, WA – SUBSTATION
September 17 – Portland – Mississippi Studios
September 19 – San Francisco – Rickshaw Stop
September 20 – Los Angeles, CA – The Roxy Theatre
December 12 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
December 13 – Detroit, El Club