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HEALTH

RAT WARS

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Released: 16th February 2024. The L.A. industrial-rock band HEALTH's album 'RAT WARS' is the most violent yet vulnerable LP 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 humour... surprisingly it's still fun as hell. 'RAT WARS' joins the lineage of ground-breaking 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. It's The Downward Spiral for people with at least two monitors and a vitamin D deficiency. Written during the most emotionally trying period of the band's life, the album builds on their chaotic yet re-invigorating pandemic years. In that time, HEALTH cut dozens of tracks with heroes and inheritors like Nine Inch Nails, Lamb of God, 100 Gecs, Poppy, and Pertubator on DISCO4. '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.

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    • Details

      Released:
      16th February 2024
      Category:
      Rock & Pop
      Format:
      CD Album
      Barcode:
      888072568334
    • Description

      The L.A. industrial-rock band HEALTH's album 'RAT WARS' is the most violent yet vulnerable LP 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 humour... surprisingly it's still fun as hell. 'RAT WARS' joins the lineage of ground-breaking 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. It's The Downward Spiral for people with at least two monitors and a vitamin D deficiency. Written during the most emotionally trying period of the band's life, the album builds on their chaotic yet re-invigorating pandemic years. In that time, HEALTH cut dozens of tracks with heroes and inheritors like Nine Inch Nails, Lamb of God, 100 Gecs, Poppy, and Pertubator on DISCO4. '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.
    • Track listing

      Disc 1

      Track name
      Artist
      1.DEMIGODS
      HEALTH
      2.FUTURE of HELL
      HEALTH
      3.HATEFUL (Feat. SIERRA)
      HEALTH
      4.(OF ALL ELSE)
      HEALTH
      5.CRACK METAL
      HEALTH
      6.UNLOVED
      HEALTH
      7.CHILDREN of SORROW
      HEALTH
      8.SICKO
      HEALTH
      9.ASHAMED
      HEALTH
      10.(OF BEING BORN)
      HEALTH
      11.DSM-V
      HEALTH
      12.DON'T TRY
      HEALTH
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