MADLANDS – “ARMAGEDDON”
INDEPENDENT
“Armageddon” is the first official radio single from Toronto-based MADLANDS’ debut album Symphony For The End of Time (releasing in September)—a fierce and unfiltered introduction to a band intent on restoring rock’s raw, unsettling edge. Channeling the spirit of a time when music was messy, emotional, and unpolished, the track blends a 1990s alternative revival with pop-punk urgency and a dark, gothic undercurrent. Fueled by searing guitars, driving rhythms, and a vocal performance that balances vulnerability with menace, “Armageddon” captures MADLANDS at their most immediate and uncompromising.
Lyrically, the song serves as a powerful entry point into the album’s broader conceptual lens, using apocalyptic imagery to critique modern digital culture. It depicts a society numbed by screens and spectacle, choosing distraction over responsibility as collapse unfolds in plain sight. Rather than a sudden end, “Armageddon” frames destruction as a slow, voluntary surrender—where disaster becomes background noise and chaos becomes entertainment. Tied to the album’s themes of identity, self-obsession, and the erosion of authentic voice, the single positions MADLANDS as a band unafraid to challenge the status quo—delivering a bold, thought-provoking statement that cuts through both sonically and culturally.
ARTIST QUOTE
“The video for “Armageddon” reflects a culture increasingly unable to confront itself or its own reality. The protagonist is transfixed by the glow of screens, so consumed by artificial intimacy and simulated connection that the apocalypse outside his window barely registers as real. The ending is a warning that surrendering completely to the screen has consequences, because you never know when some pupil-less, gothed-out, Ellen DeGeneres-looking maniac in a turtleneck might step out of the noise and take your head off with a baseball bat.
The project was blessed by so many real content creators who contributed their talents to it, which made it especially interesting given it could be read, at face value, as a critique of content creation and social media. But it’s more nuanced than that. Everyone is an active participant in the dance: creators, consumers, and platforms alike. We all want things to feel more authentic, yet we still bow to the algorithmic gods because we’re all, in one way or another, dependent on it. The fact that we made this video, then uploaded and promoted it through the same system it questions, is part of that contradiction. Ultimately, we’re just holding up a mirror and asking: are we all still okay with this?”
Madlands
[Single]
(Independent)
Release Date: May 15, 2026
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