Props to the sound engineering team for this recording. The overall vibe is much more raw and organic than in the album, but cleaner sounding as well, somehow.
I’m impressed by the recording quality of the vocals given the nature of the performance, though it makes me think maybe there were studio overdubs added afterwards?
That's because every single instrument and vocal channel hasn't been run through fifteen different custom made Kurt Ballou distortion pedals I suspect.
Urian Hackney is quickly becoming one of my favorite drummers. That dude is a beast! There's a lot going on and he still pushes the drums to a prominent position. Impressive.
These dudes also go to great lengths to conceal their true identity. Hiring actors to play the instruments etc… rumor has it that the armed are made up of mainly members of converge
@@bm7291 the armed is supposedly Kurt Ballou's brainchild. And benjamin koller played drums on Only Love. Their "AN ITERATION" music video also ties into a converge music video. I'm sure there are a slew of other connections, but The Armed are definitely not comprised of mainly Converge members. Deeply connected to the group, sure. But BK playing drums is the only actual performative connection. Maybe other members tracked a few parts here and there too, but that's about it.
This is an auditory tornado. When it first approached it was wild and overwhelming, but somehow over time I found myself in the eye of the storm - a tranquil place where I got lost in the music and felt really peaceful being encapsulated by that wall of noise raging around me.
Troy kinda looks like they asked their dad to play with them, but boy does he nail those guitar parts. Edit: and yes, in my mind they all have one dad.
What the hell kind of guitar is he playing for this set? Like some kind of steampunk lipstick-pickup nightmare Strat - it's cool as shit and I want one
I can't even tell you have many times i've watched this, there's something so fucking magical about this whole thing. Feels like I'm being thrown down a sun-burnt, technicolor wormhole.
Me too! i have the images/sounds of this session all the time in my head and still keep coming back. They look so wholesome as a band, when everybody sings in AN ITERATION
It's kind of hard to single out his performance because of the 18 other guitarist, but as an armed fan I can hear his contributions to the songs and they are wonderful. He's such a cool guy
... The moment in Bad Selection when the vocalist picks up the PA speaker and is carrying it around on his head, presumably so that it would feedback like crazy with the mic pointed straight at it just inches away, is nothing short of awe-inspiring. I am filled with joy every time I see it and for a moment it does feel like everybody knows that I am great.
Queens of the Stone Age just announced a new tour today and this band is opening up for the Michigan show. I haven't heard of them before but I dig their sound and am excited to check them out live!
@@AmrishMahabir I can smell the fake from these people. They look like a cast for an LGBTQ+ Netflix TV Show, not like an actual band. Some of them are legit musicians, lead vocalist for example, but some are not. I've read some articles, this band is a deceit, nobody knows their actual members. Some parts were produced and maybe even played by different people. This exact video isn't live, it's made to look so.
@@DmitryDruzhinin It’s a bunch of white dudes, one girl, and a black guy. How is that an LGBTQ cast or whatever you said? It’s obviously not a live recording though.
@@HendersonHinchfinch You called their sexes and races, and then switched to their genders. Are you ok with logic? Yes, they are diverse, and also they are half-naked, that's why they look totally produced, a group of freaks made to correspond the modern libertard agenda. Their music is shit, btw. There are a couple of good songs, but everything else is just noise without any good ideas. I heard this all 10 years ago: Wolf Eyes, TDEP, Converge.
Man the sound is so damn good, give the audio engineer a high five, awesome how you guys manage to sound just like in the album, but different at the same time.
This sounds so much better than the album! It makes me sad as the album is hard to listen sometimes and here all the sounds are tangible. Then there’s the fantastic camerawork throughout the performance, both in terms of shooting and editing. I want more of this!
@@TheRealBibwitHarte nah. I'm a big fan of the armed and a record producer and they missed the mark with the production on Ultrapop. They already nailed maximalism on Only Love. Ultrapop is a good album despite its iffy production but most of the time Its incomprehensible in the bad way.
@@TeaNoSugar87 Mr. Shercliff ah, a record producer! the auditory oracle of delphi, preaching what is "good" or "bad". well guess what schmuck, i too am a record producer! and alongside Silk Sonic's project, this is my favourite mix of the year. Truly unique and not for everyone - "hifi noise" is an oxymoronic concept that they managed to capture lightning in the bottle to produce. Foolish Alex, perhaps you've lost above 8k or think that there is a "correct" way for music to sound - but in the conservative quagmire that metal and post hardcore is stuck in sonically, this album is a breath of fresh air that breathes life into a genre on its death bed. Like your Final Fantasy Main theme, you wish to hear the same sounds again and again. You think you know what "music" should be, you have journeyed from Kokiri Forest are deep within in the Lost Woods, but, lo and behold, instead of magic and mystery, you have lost yourself in a fog of repetition, mundanity and rigmarole. I bet that stray cat you attempted to catch seven years ago was weeping at the squandered talent of a video game composer who shot at the moon, thinking to land among the stars, but instead was lost in the eternal, frozen abyss of space. But, upon reflection, someone from Stafford who has no doubt inherited the Birmingham accent, famed for its ridiculousness, ludicrousity and propostity would have a similarly trite, cockamamy and fatuous opinion on the sonic craft! Bah!
I think it was the point of the production on Ultrapop to be almost completely impenetrable. I do love this live rendering because it clarifies the compositions, but the album benefits from shrouding the catchiness in sheets of noise imo. Without the Ultra it’d be all Pop and then we’d never have to earn it, and we always care more about the things we earn.
Nah man, nowhere else will you be able to bathe in such sweet, sweet noise! It's as much a part of the art as the (tighter sounding) live performance/recording. I'm sure if they could replicate the sea of tracks that their records are, they'd probably be bringing as many people on stage as possible, but between the two (live and album) you get the full "scoop."
I saw this video first and checked out the album after. Holy shit that has to be one of the worst mixed, compressed albums I’ve heard in a long time. Such a waste because these guys kick ass!
It took me a couple weeks to get into the album after hearing this. I love the album now and it has to be played loud or you miss out on the few details you get with how compressed it is. The compression really is a shame because I want to recommend it to people so badly. I've basically just sent people this every time lul
seeing and hearing "an iteration" live, my favorite song from ultrapop, made me smile so much, that song means everything to me ever since i've discovered it and it's just as gorgeous live
AN ITERATION! LIVE! It was the perfect performance. I really liked the mixing and the attention to making everything sound powerful and in its entirety.
I got to see The Armed open for QOTSA in August 2023 and it was really fascinating because they brought this absolutely devastating energy to their performances and were trying to party as hard as possible but almost no one showed for the openers and the people who did didn't seem to care much about The Armed. It was a real shame because there was a unique earnestness to their performance that you don't often see. I've really come to love their aesthetics and style. Very anarchic but carefully harnessed and orchestrated.
I would love to hear an iteration of An Iteration where there's another minute of the song playing that chorus at a slower bpm at the end. You can almost hear it already especially with the female vocal at the end. RUclips algorithm does it again. This band idea is awesome.
This was uploaded a couple of weeks ago on a different channel if I remember correctly. A bit late it was taken down without warning. Never before have I felt such a gaping black hole in my soul caused by a missing video from youtube. Thank you for uploading it again, this is a true treasure! My life is complete again.
it took me some time to really get into it, but in the end, I just think this is awesome, sharp playing, great collective energy, and an out of the box approach to loud music, I'm in
Watching this performance, I need to give the record another listen through. Phenomenal. Major props to the sound engineer. There is so much going on and it all perfectly represented in the mix.
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These dudes must have the highest protein catering of all times.
Rumor has it that during covid they all built home gyms to get jacked lol.
I bet they tour with a case full of weights like an 80s metal band
Lots of muscle on show, but the drummer's the guy really using 'em. Fantastic stuff, my new favourite band.
Just Pure Whey Protein in higher quantities, bro. LOL
Gainz
Props to the sound engineering team for this recording. The overall vibe is much more raw and organic than in the album, but cleaner sounding as well, somehow.
I thought the same. It sounds so good doesn’t it!
It's a better mix than the album. You can actually here all the melody that's been buried in the compressed mush of the album mix.
I’m impressed by the recording quality of the vocals given the nature of the performance, though it makes me think maybe there were studio overdubs added afterwards?
That's because every single instrument and vocal channel hasn't been run through fifteen different custom made Kurt Ballou distortion pedals I suspect.
@@bengosling4074 most likely. It's a little too clean in parts
Urian Hackney is quickly becoming one of my favorite drummers. That dude is a beast! There's a lot going on and he still pushes the drums to a prominent position. Impressive.
Dude rips.
His name is Urian Hackney? That makes him even more badass. 💙✌️🗽🏴☠️
Props to the drummer for tying it up in a big bow. He straddles the line between wild and disciplined.
This performance also won the Arnold sports festival.
That's amazing👍💯🎶
This is by far my favourite version of An Iteration.
0:00 ALL FUTURES
3:07 MASUNAGA VAPORS
5:35 BAD SELECTION
9:23 AN ITERATION
Every one of these musicians has the heart of an ancient warrior.
❤🎸
just a mix of daughters and idles.
... still a good time.
Lol, this is an awesome comment
Troy Van Leeuwen rocking with The Armed, this guys can't stop to amaze!
I thought that was him...
Purple dress shirt, w/ tie
he is one of them, his name is also daniel
These dudes also go to great lengths to conceal their true identity. Hiring actors to play the instruments etc… rumor has it that the armed are made up of mainly members of converge
@@bm7291 the armed is supposedly Kurt Ballou's brainchild. And benjamin koller played drums on Only Love. Their "AN ITERATION" music video also ties into a converge music video. I'm sure there are a slew of other connections, but The Armed are definitely not comprised of mainly Converge members. Deeply connected to the group, sure. But BK playing drums is the only actual performative connection. Maybe other members tracked a few parts here and there too, but that's about it.
@jamesd7678 thanks for sharing this
This is an auditory tornado. When it first approached it was wild and overwhelming, but somehow over time I found myself in the eye of the storm - a tranquil place where I got lost in the music and felt really peaceful being encapsulated by that wall of noise raging around me.
Best comment ever!🎸🎹
Check out some of their older stuff. It’s just as nuts, just as fun, and their lyrics are always a weird fever dream of poetry😊
This is how i listen to music
That's what your mom said last night
unbeliveable live sound quality for such a chaotic band!!!
Buff Seth Rogen Over here absolutely killing it
I keep coming back to this, this fucking sounds so full and clean god DAMN
On an emotional level, and a visual level I STILL fucking cant stop coming back to this. I'm telling all my friends, get fucked.
🎸❤🎵
I love how I clicked on it by accident and now I might have a new favourite band.
That drummer is excellent.
urian hackney bro
Related to the members of the Detroit group Death
This is filling the Dillinger Escape Plan sized hole in my heart.
Good to see Troy outside of Queens!
This is amazing!
Troy kinda looks like they asked their dad to play with them, but boy does he nail those guitar parts.
Edit: and yes, in my mind they all have one dad.
Troy rips, love seeing him in new projects
I think he's also in a band with Troy from Mastodon called Gone is Gone. Check it!
Deadass..
What the hell kind of guitar is he playing for this set? Like some kind of steampunk lipstick-pickup nightmare Strat - it's cool as shit and I want one
I can't even tell you have many times i've watched this, there's something so fucking magical about this whole thing. Feels like I'm being thrown down a sun-burnt, technicolor wormhole.
Omg I love your comment!!❤🎸🎵
Me too! i have the images/sounds of this session all the time in my head and still keep coming back. They look so wholesome as a band, when everybody sings in AN ITERATION
@@benoitmorissette7781love your comment ❤ too
It’s so cool that Troy Van Leeuwen is playing with them. I’m just discovering this band.
seeing qotsa and the armed next week!
I left during this opener but now I feel like I missed out.
@@caverappleyard5140😢
It's kind of hard to single out his performance because of the 18 other guitarist, but as an armed fan I can hear his contributions to the songs and they are wonderful. He's such a cool guy
I've literally watched this multiple times a day, everyday since it was reuploaded here - an absolutely untouchable band, album, and performance!
i am from venezuela and i see this video almost every day and i love this feelings i wish see this guy in live someday
... The moment in Bad Selection when the vocalist picks up the PA speaker and is carrying it around on his head, presumably so that it would feedback like crazy with the mic pointed straight at it just inches away, is nothing short of awe-inspiring. I am filled with joy every time I see it and for a moment it does feel like everybody knows that I am great.
Thanks, Gearbox Software & New Tales From the Borderlands for bringing Bad Selection to my ears.
Honestly for me it was stressful like dude think about ur ears
@@PuccioMAI’d assume he’d have some hearing protection at least.
@@Gaminating I’d assume he doesn’t, he just vibed with the moment and the performance
start to finish this is the best live set i've ever seen. love the armed
Queens of the Stone Age just announced a new tour today and this band is opening up for the Michigan show. I haven't heard of them before but I dig their sound and am excited to check them out live!
Never heard of them
the armed has a new album coming out and a new single sport of form.🎵📣
I thought that was Troy van leeuwen on guitar in the first song.
@@1000000iansit was❤
Their going on tour with the armed ❤
The Armed feel more like band dreamt up by Adult Swim than even Dethklok
naaa
@@D3athToD0gma❤ yay
The drummer is amazing on every song. He holds it all together ❤️
As a sound engineer, I hope to be able to capture a band this accurately one day.
We both know the secret: they are not playing live. It's pre-recorded, played by other people.
@@DmitryDruzhinin They are definitely overdubs, I've seen a lot of live videos of this band - they definitely know how to play their parts bud!
@@AmrishMahabir I can smell the fake from these people. They look like a cast for an LGBTQ+ Netflix TV Show, not like an actual band. Some of them are legit musicians, lead vocalist for example, but some are not. I've read some articles, this band is a deceit, nobody knows their actual members. Some parts were produced and maybe even played by different people. This exact video isn't live, it's made to look so.
@@DmitryDruzhinin It’s a bunch of white dudes, one girl, and a black guy. How is that an LGBTQ cast or whatever you said? It’s obviously not a live recording though.
@@HendersonHinchfinch You called their sexes and races, and then switched to their genders. Are you ok with logic? Yes, they are diverse, and also they are half-naked, that's why they look totally produced, a group of freaks made to correspond the modern libertard agenda. Their music is shit, btw. There are a couple of good songs, but everything else is just noise without any good ideas. I heard this all 10 years ago: Wolf Eyes, TDEP, Converge.
I really wasn't expecting to dig them SO MUCH! These people make me feel alive!
Man the sound is so damn good, give the audio engineer a high five, awesome how you guys manage to sound just like in the album, but different at the same time.
Funny how this became my workout soundtrack
When hardcore refracts into post-punk.
Obviously the best band in the world right now.
Totally!❤🎵
Agree.
I found real, infinite, impossible love, and in it I refract.
Bad Selection is the best song I've heard in months , especially this performance
Such a better mix than the album 👍
Thank you, Gearbox Software & New Tales From the Borderlands for bringing Bad Selection to my attention.
@@MilanTehVillain❤
Suddenly, everybody in your gym start singing and playing during workout
This sounds so much better than the album! It makes me sad as the album is hard to listen sometimes and here all the sounds are tangible. Then there’s the fantastic camerawork throughout the performance, both in terms of shooting and editing. I want more of this!
probably because youre listening on airpods lol
@@TheRealBibwitHarte nah. I'm a big fan of the armed and a record producer and they missed the mark with the production on Ultrapop. They already nailed maximalism on Only Love. Ultrapop is a good album despite its iffy production but most of the time Its incomprehensible in the bad way.
@@TeaNoSugar87 Mr. Shercliff ah, a record producer! the auditory oracle of delphi, preaching what is "good" or "bad". well guess what schmuck, i too am a record producer! and alongside Silk Sonic's project, this is my favourite mix of the year. Truly unique and not for everyone - "hifi noise" is an oxymoronic concept that they managed to capture lightning in the bottle to produce. Foolish Alex, perhaps you've lost above 8k or think that there is a "correct" way for music to sound - but in the conservative quagmire that metal and post hardcore is stuck in sonically, this album is a breath of fresh air that breathes life into a genre on its death bed.
Like your Final Fantasy Main theme, you wish to hear the same sounds again and again. You think you know what "music" should be, you have journeyed from Kokiri Forest are deep within in the Lost Woods, but, lo and behold, instead of magic and mystery, you have lost yourself in a fog of repetition, mundanity and rigmarole.
I bet that stray cat you attempted to catch seven years ago was weeping at the squandered talent of a video game composer who shot at the moon, thinking to land among the stars, but instead was lost in the eternal, frozen abyss of space.
But, upon reflection, someone from Stafford who has no doubt inherited the Birmingham accent, famed for its ridiculousness, ludicrousity and propostity would have a similarly trite, cockamamy and fatuous opinion on the sonic craft! Bah!
I think it was the point of the production on Ultrapop to be almost completely impenetrable. I do love this live rendering because it clarifies the compositions, but the album benefits from shrouding the catchiness in sheets of noise imo. Without the Ultra it’d be all Pop and then we’d never have to earn it, and we always care more about the things we earn.
@@defbatface 👌👌👌
God I wish the album was mixed like this
It's a strange closed circle when you work out to this band so that you can look like them
Haha same. I hope your arms are looking Armed.
I am excited that I live in the same age as a band who sounds like this.
Born to late to explore the earth, born to early to explore the universe, born just in time to listen to The Armed at Adult Swim Fest 2021
@@tbos44 Dude well fucking said. This is the best comment on this whole video. I couldn't have said it better.
This sounds so good! Wish the album was mixed like this.
seems like they mix the albums so that you MUST listen to it at 100% volume on powerful speakers in order to be able to hear it all.
Get better headphones or speakers.
@@Magitek85 😂🤦
Nah man, nowhere else will you be able to bathe in such sweet, sweet noise! It's as much a part of the art as the (tighter sounding) live performance/recording. I'm sure if they could replicate the sea of tracks that their records are, they'd probably be bringing as many people on stage as possible, but between the two (live and album) you get the full "scoop."
1:00 when I first heard this high part here I thought it was a violin or something lol when its really the girl singing it. Really cool stuff here
Bad Selection is already a killing song, but this live is even better than the album version!
Hope the ultrapop live had a good dvd version
My favorite “it’s why we’re safer alone. It’s how we’re braver at home. We’re all just paperbacks”
September 29th! Just got announced!!!
Ultrapop AOTY, no question.
Fucking incredible, isn't it?
Pretty impresive Wall of Sound, like it
I like this, actually being able to hear the instruments, unlike on the album
Yeah the album was really
Of putting to me.
@@Onamorata Agreed
Couldn't agree more. If the album sounded like this, I'd be much more interested in it
I saw this video first and checked out the album after. Holy shit that has to be one of the worst mixed, compressed albums I’ve heard in a long time. Such a waste because these guys kick ass!
It took me a couple weeks to get into the album after hearing this. I love the album now and it has to be played loud or you miss out on the few details you get with how compressed it is. The compression really is a shame because I want to recommend it to people so badly. I've basically just sent people this every time lul
What a waste to not have cameras on the drummer during the crescendo of "Masunaga Vapors"
That's stunning. Thanks to Sargent House: always fresh, always true, always an inspiration.
This sounds a million times better than the album
"Sound is source. By sharing the humble iteration, we ascend."
Every time last 20 seconds of Iteration makes me incredibly happy for unexplained reason, and i almost cry. REFRACT.
Why does this band feel exactly like a group of JRPG characters
Pretty much is, they are used for their individual talents
Glad this is back on youtube so we can re-refract
seeing and hearing "an iteration" live, my favorite song from ultrapop, made me smile so much, that song means everything to me ever since i've discovered it and it's just as gorgeous live
I thought i was the only one who thought that, it legit got me thru the pandemic
That song is perfect
AN ITERATION! LIVE! It was the perfect performance. I really liked the mixing and the attention to making everything sound powerful and in its entirety.
The bass run @7:20 is glorious
oh thats why they are called the armed
I got to see The Armed open for QOTSA in August 2023 and it was really fascinating because they brought this absolutely devastating energy to their performances and were trying to party as hard as possible but almost no one showed for the openers and the people who did didn't seem to care much about The Armed. It was a real shame because there was a unique earnestness to their performance that you don't often see. I've really come to love their aesthetics and style. Very anarchic but carefully harnessed and orchestrated.
Thank you for reuploading this! Feared it was gone forever
Thanks for helping make 2021 groovy. See you in 2022!
I would love to hear an iteration of An Iteration where there's another minute of the song playing that chorus at a slower bpm at the end. You can almost hear it already especially with the female vocal at the end. RUclips algorithm does it again. This band idea is awesome.
That would be a perfect soundgasm!
The energy of this song reminds me of all the chaos that is happening on EVERY level on the planet right now.
Me too!❤🎸🙏
This is a live performance for sure, and it's awesome, but it's not a live recording.
This version of bad selection is better than the studio version BY FAR
This is fucking insane. I need to see this band live someday
Me too!🎵🎸
It's like every genre of music since 1990 mushed into one band...
I fucking love it!!
So true!💞🎵🎸
i haven't been this smitten by a live performance in so long
Good as the tracks are on the album the mix here takes it to a different level 👍
soooo good. thanks for reuploading this! ULTRAPOP is tied with SINNER GET READY for my album of the year.
agreed... go all caps albums!
the two extremes. I like it
Let’s not forget HEY WHAT
This was uploaded a couple of weeks ago on a different channel if I remember correctly. A bit late it was taken down without warning. Never before have I felt such a gaping black hole in my soul caused by a missing video from youtube. Thank you for uploading it again, this is a true treasure! My life is complete again.
2:01 what a scream, rewatched it like 10 times
this is what 1990s movies imagined 2020s music is going to sound like
They had better be right.
There's so much peace in chaos.
Please release this on vinyl! Such an amazing mix..
I agree with you💯🎸🎵
only gave Ultrapop a listen last week and damn, this was right on time. Fucking phenomenal
I was SO sad to see they had delisted this from the adult swim account. Thank you for reposting this. I was in withdrawal.
this band is incredible
More like 'The Jacked'! At the Drive In & Dillinger had a good noise baby.
dillenger escape plan meets my bloody valentine meets bloc party meets deafheaven. these guys rule
+ Idles
Loving it
Glad Seth Rogen finally decided to give into his love for synthesizers
it took me some time to really get into it, but in the end, I just think this is awesome, sharp playing, great collective energy, and an out of the box approach to loud music, I'm in
THE ARMS 💪
I'm also here because these guys are opening for QOTSA on The End is Nero tour. Excited to see this energy live.
I listen this adult swim festival performance everyday,,,, every day,
Me too!🎸🎙
@@crsmith845
Saw this for the first time last night. When I woke up this morning I immediately grabbed my phone and put this on. Shit is mesmerizing
@@HendersonHinchfinch maaan is in my phone too always ready before trainning 🤘🎶🔥
Watching this performance, I need to give the record another listen through. Phenomenal. Major props to the sound engineer. There is so much going on and it all perfectly represented in the mix.
Where every day is arm day.
Was honestly expecting some like TIHC type of stuff but this is so much cooler. Was definitely not expecting to see Troy here either! This is dope!
This is sooo good!! Great to see Troy Van Leeuwen in the mix...however he might have to spend some time in the gym to keep up with these folks...
I KNOW THAT WAS SO COOL! did not expect that
Swole Rogen is a beast on the keys there
And. Urian Hackney on the drums.!💯📻🎶Just saying
Nah he held his own out there
OFF THE CHARTS AMAZING!!
this is the most amazing thing i’ve ever seen
They are incredibly tight. The drummer is f'n amazing!
Urian Hackney.is the drummer!🎵🎼💘
God this is too fucking great, I'm glad it's on youtube again
amazing!!
Holy fuck...i'm blown away by the Energy. Fucking awesome.
I didnt know this band up until now and holy fuck this is fucking awesome!!!!!!!!!!
Holy Mother of God, this is the most beautiful lovely and tender thing that justifies the existence of everything in this cruel and cold world.
The feedback @08:53 gives me chills. So good!
youtube recommended me this. i want more of it.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR RE-UPLOADING THIS!!! Was looking for it everywhere since the original got deleted. GREAT performance!!!
First time hearing this. Such an organized chaos. I love it.
Since Slipknot’s Wait and Bleed, I do f love fake live performances videos. Great work!
Insane live sound. Damn i didn't think they would manage to recreate the album sound like this. Kudos!
It was mixed after the fact.
@@lobster272 Yup, and they put a lot of work into that mix.
@@billyhughes9776best comment ever. Hun❤