HEALTH Announce ‘Rat Wars,’ Share New Singles ‘Children Of Sorrow’ And ‘Sicko’
The new album will arrive on December 7 via Loma Vista Recordings.
HEALTH–the LA-based industrial-rock band of Jake Duzsik (vocals/guitar), John Famiglietti (bass/producer), and BJ Miller (drums)–have announced their new album RAT WARS. The project will be released on December 7 via Loma Vista Recordings.
The album’s first two singles are also out now. There’s the menacing “CHILDREN OF SORROW,” featuring Lamb of God’s Willie Adler on guitar. The band has also shared the half-time hellscape “SICKO,” which samples Godflesh’s “Like Rats.” RAT WARS is now available for pre-order on limited edition vinyl, cassette, and more.
HEALTH also announced a 2024 headlining U.S. tour beginning March 2 in Ventura, CA and including shows at NYC’s Brooklyn Steel on March 15 and LA’s Belasco Theater on April 4. Pixel Grip and King Yosef will be supporting on all dates. Tickets go on-sale Friday, October 6, at 10am local time. The trio will host a full album listening party of RAT WARS at LA’s Das Bunker tomorrow (Friday, October 6), where they’ll party with fans afterwards (21+, free with RSVP).
The follow-up to 2019’s VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR, HEALTH’s fifth album is the most violent yet vulnerable of their career. It is somehow fitting that such a brutal collection of songs is at the same time their most comprehensive artistic statement.
Meticulously aggressive production detail collides with painfully personal confessions and a strange savage grace is paired with icy gallows humor. In classic HEALTH fashion, the album is still fun as hell.
Produced by Stint (Oliver Tree, Demi Lovato) and mixed by Lars Stalfors (SALEM, The Neighbourhood) the 12-track LP joins the lineage of groundbreaking heavy acts like Nine Inch Nails and Ministry, which re-drew the borders between metal, electronic, and pop music. It also speaks directly to the band’s young, fervent online subculture.
Written during the most emotionally trying period of the band’s life, the album builds on their chaotic yet re-invigorating pandemic years. RAT WARS captures all the fury and ambition their LP’s have until now aspired to. It’s their boldest statement on the insanity and the insipidness of contemporary life.
