Photo by Aaron Jones

You can take the dude out of the Armed but you apparently can’t take the Armed out of the dude. That’s what you’re probably going to pick up on when listening to “I Am All”, the lead single from experimental electronic-fused metal band Genghis Tron’s new album Signal Fire.

Let’s back up a few pages, though, to 2021. The band had just returned after being on hiatus since 2010 and began a new chapter with a then-not-as-indie-household-friendly name in Tony Wolski of the aforementioned Detroit experimental hardcore band taking on frontman duties. With his holographic vocals guiding their new current, their comeback, Solid Weapon, careened its way through a cool, aerodynamic atmosphere expanding in real time.

Since that time, Wolski and the Armed have only beefed up in their stature and intense habits through within their noisemaking, and we’re hearing it bleed-over here. Wolski smolders Genghis Tron’s polyrhythmic synth wires and industrial cinder with blistering screams. They’re a harsh, albeit necessary compliment for when his clean vocals imprint a near-futuristic dystopia across the moving soundscape. “I wanna crush / I wanna burn /I wanna shake / I’m on a tear.” This time around, instead of world-building, they’re world-destroying.

Directed by: Aaron Jones

Genghis Tron’s Signal Fire will be released June 12th on Relapse Records.