HEALTH, l'album "RAT WARS" sort aujourd'hui en digital
“LA industrial geniuses HEALTH exude menacing melancholy and evident greatness on their glowering fifth album.” - Kerrang! (4/5 stars)
"HEALTH have become a full-blown, industrial metal powerhouse" - Metal Hammer (8/10 stars)
"...dark thoughts mesh with enticing melodies, and harsh, distorted noise is draped in soft sheets of reverb. The purview is bleak... but the sound design and production are almost playfully ambitious" - New York Magazine/Vulture (Other Best Albums of 2023)
“They may have started as a band toiling in underground obscurity...deeply into the lives of fans reacting to the songs of pain, frustration and understated rage." - Revolver - #8 on the 30 Best Albums Of 2023
“RAT WARS remains as danceable as any of their synth-y goth offerings to date — stank face and headbanging come free.” - Exclaim! (Best Albums of 2023)
“‘It’s a stunningly wrought album, exploring some of their most personal themes and some of the best music to bear their name” - Distorted Sound (9/10 stars)
"The group’s fifth album continues to solidify their goth-industrial aesthetic while remaining first and foremost a pop album—albeit one wrapped in leather and spikes... some of the strongest standout songs of any HEALTH album to date" - FLOOD Magazine
“...a sonically sound, exhilarating roller-coaster ride that shrewdly assesses the last four years of recorded material and makes a concerted effort to deliver the most punishingly heavy album of their career.” - Sputnik Reviews (4.9/5 stars, Classic)
“RAT WARS is this band’s most creative collection yet” - Soundsphere
PRESS HITS FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE!:
US:
NY Mag / Vulture - Best Albums of 2023 - "On the Los Angeles trio’s fifth album, dark thoughts mesh with enticing melodies, and harsh, distorted noise is draped in soft sheets of reverb. The purview is bleak... but the sound design and production are almost playfully ambitious" - New York Magazine/Vulture (Other Best Albums of 2023)
Flood - "The group’s fifth album continues to solidify their goth-industrial aesthetic while remaining first and foremost a pop album—albeit one wrapped in leather and spikes... some of the strongest standout songs of any HEALTH album to date"
Revolver - “They've been calling their aggressive, forward-leaning sound 'noise rock' since forming in 2005, but there are vibrant elements of industrial, electronic, post-punk, metal and avant-garde... They may have started as a band toiling in underground obscurity, but the guys have seen their music travel not only far, but deeply into the lives of fans reacting to the songs of pain, frustration and understated rage."
Sputnik - "a sonically sound, exhilarating roller-coaster ride that shrewdly assesses the last four years of recorded material and makes a concerted effort to deliver the most punishingly heavy album of their career... RAT WARS ends up being their most comprehensive album to date. It’s another ambitious voyage into heavier pastures, building on everything they’ve been doing since Disco3. The result is a record that’s more cinematic, darker, louder, heavier and harder than anything we’ve heard from them before today, and frankly, I’m here for it." - 4.9/5
CVLT Nation - “No other band does it like HEALTH — and that’s a big fucking FACT!... RAT WARS is a perfect balance between Industrial Power and Ethereal Soundscapes.”
Ghost Cult Mag - "Rat Wars is up there with the cutting edge of music and genre boundaries" - 9/10 stars
New Noise Magazine - In the aftermath of the apocalypse, as the smoke recedes, there’s only one thing left on this planet to devour what remains: the rats. Serving as a soundtrack to the end of days, RAT WARS by HEALTH, out now via Loma Vista Recordings, is the bands heaviest and personal effort to date.
UPROXX - “[RAT WARS] anoints the Los Angeles trio as leaders of the subgenre’s latest wave. With an ear for immersive sonics, mechanistic grit, and heavy-hitting breakdowns, HEALTH know exactly what they’re doing."
The Soundboard - “… bloody hell, is RAT WARS powerful.”
Heavy Consequence - “[‘CHILDREN OF SORROW’ & ‘SICKO’] showcase the multi-faceted sound that’s allowed HEALTH to expand their fanbase and crossover conventional genre barriers."
MXDWN - “[‘UNLOVED’ is] catchy, creepy and psychedelic in the best way possible."
Mixdown Magazine - "The new record is inherently HEALTH, but with something new, something fresh."
GRAMMY.com - "...RAT WARS brings the darkness and heaviness from entirely new directions"
Brooklyn Vegan - "Rat Wars sounds like a record that only HEALTH could've made"
UK:
KERRANG! – 4/5 ‘LA industrial geniuses HEALTH exude menacing melancholy and evident greatness on glowering fifth album…’
METAL HAMMER - ‘Rat Wars feels very much like the completion of their evolution into a full-blown, destructive industrial metal powerhouse...if you’re a pure metalhead and you’ve ever been intrigued, but unsure, about whether or not Health are for you, now is the time to investigate.’
LINE OF BEST FIT – “Truly, there’s never been a better time to join the HEALTH experiment.”
DISTORTED SOUND – 9/10 ‘It’s a stunningly wrought album, exploring some of their most personal themes and some of the best music to bear their name’
THE SOUNDBOARD – “… bloody hell, is RAT WARS powerful.”
SOUNDSPHERE – “HEALTH have become the biggest industrial band of the modern era, and I will die on that hill.” + “‘Rat Wars’ is this band’s most creative collection yet”
METAL EPIDEMIC – Video review: 5/5 from Duncan + 4.5/5 from Dave “This album is the best thing they’ve released” + “The band are genuinely passionate about what they do”
LOUD + QUIET – 6/10 album review
MAXIMUM VOLUME MUSIC - 9/10 album review
GHOST CULT MAGAZINE - 9/10 album review
NOIZZE - 9/10 album review
DIY MAGAZINE – 3/5 album review
THE MIDLANDS ROCK – RAT WARS album review
GERMANY:
Fuze - "Rat Wars" is as accessible as it gets. And anything but boring. This is the soundtrack for driving through neon-lit streets, dancing in abandoned bunkers and game the night away.
Visions - …the band from Los Angeles embodies the principle of radical contrasts” + “Aggressiveness meets hypothermic sensitivity and personal pain”
Plattentests - John Famiglietti, BJ Miller and Jake Duzsik run riot in their own style between electro-carnage, industrial riffing, and reverb-laden drumming, with Duzsik's ethereal voice floating above them as the antithesis.
GUITAR - 4/5 album review + record of the month
Sonic Seducer - “Anyone who has liked HEALTH so far, will love RAT WARS”
Tip Berlin -“Ecstasy in sound is the specialty of the noise experts at Health.” + “Thrash metal meets techno surfaces, EDM moments and ambient dreams, delicate vocals and nerdy quotes from electro, metal and pop history.”
AUSTRALIA
Triple j The Racket: "An album that really does sound like [HEALTH] have fully embraced the metal side of their sound."
Maniacs: "The most violent yet vulnerable LP of their career, RAT WARS is a brutal collection of songs that doubles as the group's most comprehensive artistic statement."
Mixdown Magazine: "The new record is inherently HEALTH, but with something new, something fresh."
CANADA
Exclaim! (Best Albums of 2023) - “RAT WARS remains as danceable as any of their synth-y goth offerings to date. Pay whatever they're asking for a ticket to HEALTH's upcoming tour — stank face and headbanging come free.”
Northern Transmissions (from this recent interview/feature piece): “Their music is cinematic in its sonic vastness, providing luminous spaces to lose oneself in, and grounded by immensely vulnerable lyricism delivered with great care and sensitivity by vocalist Jake Duzsik. It’s music to get lost in whilst finding your voice or place – purpose, even – in the world.”
LINKS:
Pivot: www.i.hlth.band/ratwars
HEALTH: www.youwillloveeachother.com/
LV Bodega: www.bodega.lomavistarecordings.com/colle.......h
ALBUM PACKSHOT:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3zabi1bstrcchca27.......0
ALBUM BIO:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hxenqs7gl9p4oelnr.......0
LEAD PHOTO:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dx6rcxqhml6f8ku5a.......0
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tl3ixpo0kjjlxwk85.......0
www.youwillloveeachother.com/
RAT WARS tracklist:
1. DEMIGODS
2. FUTURE OF HELL
3. HATEFUL
4. (OF ALL ELSE)
5. CRACK METAL
6. UNLOVED
7. CHILDREN OF SORROW
8. SICKO
9. ASHAMED
10. (OF BEING BORN)
11. DSM-V
12. DON’T TRY
TOURING DATES 2023 & 2024:
2023:
12/05 - Munich, Germany ^
12/07 - Hamburg, Germany ^
12/08 - Berlin, Germany ^ / 8mm Bar (DJ set)
12/10 - Leipzig, Germany ^
12/11 - Cologne, Germany ^
12/14 - Rough Trade outstore - Downstairs At The Dome - SOLD OUT
12/16 - London, UK ^
^ = with Sleep Token
2024:
03/02/24 - Ventura, CA - Ventura Music Hall *
03/04/24 - Mesa, AZ - Nile Theatre *
03/05/24 - Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine *
03/07/24 - Austin, TX - Empire Garage *
03/08/24 - Dallas, TX - Studio at the Factory *
03/09/24 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live Midtown *
03/11/24 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade - Heaven Stage *
03/12/24 - Charlotte, NC - The Underground *
03/13/24 - Richmond, VA - The National *
03/15/24 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel *
03/16/24 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer *
03/17/24 - Boston, MA - Royale *
03/19/24 - Toronto, ON - The Opera House *
03/20/24 - Detroit, MI - The Majestic *
03/22/24 - Chicago, IL - Concord Music Hall *
03/23/24 - Saint Louis, MO - Red Flag *
03/25/24 - Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre *
03/26/24 - Salt Lake City, UT - Metro Music Hall *
03/28/24 - Seattle, WA - The Showbox *
03/29/24 - Vancouver, BC - The Commodore *
03/30/24 - Portland, OR - Revolution Hall *
04/01/24 - Roseville, CA - Goldfield Trading Post *
04/02/24 - San Francisco, CA - August Hall *
04/04/24 - Los Angeles, CA - Belasco Theater *
* with support from Pixel Grip and King Yosef
Facebook : www.facebook.com/healthnoise
“LA industrial geniuses HEALTH exude menacing melancholy and evident greatness on their glowering fifth album.” - Kerrang! (4/5 stars)
"HEALTH have become a full-blown, industrial metal powerhouse" - Metal Hammer (8/10 stars)
"...dark thoughts mesh with enticing melodies, and harsh, distorted noise is draped in soft sheets of reverb. The purview is bleak... but the sound design and production are almost playfully ambitious" - New York Magazine/Vulture (Other Best Albums of 2023)
“They may have started as a band toiling in underground obscurity...deeply into the lives of fans reacting to the songs of pain, frustration and understated rage." - Revolver - #8 on the 30 Best Albums Of 2023
“RAT WARS remains as danceable as any of their synth-y goth offerings to date — stank face and headbanging come free.” - Exclaim! (Best Albums of 2023)
“‘It’s a stunningly wrought album, exploring some of their most personal themes and some of the best music to bear their name” - Distorted Sound (9/10 stars)
"The group’s fifth album continues to solidify their goth-industrial aesthetic while remaining first and foremost a pop album—albeit one wrapped in leather and spikes... some of the strongest standout songs of any HEALTH album to date" - FLOOD Magazine
“...a sonically sound, exhilarating roller-coaster ride that shrewdly assesses the last four years of recorded material and makes a concerted effort to deliver the most punishingly heavy album of their career.” - Sputnik Reviews (4.9/5 stars, Classic)
“RAT WARS is this band’s most creative collection yet” - Soundsphere
PRESS HITS FROM ALL OVER THE GLOBE!:
US:
NY Mag / Vulture - Best Albums of 2023 - "On the Los Angeles trio’s fifth album, dark thoughts mesh with enticing melodies, and harsh, distorted noise is draped in soft sheets of reverb. The purview is bleak... but the sound design and production are almost playfully ambitious" - New York Magazine/Vulture (Other Best Albums of 2023)
Flood - "The group’s fifth album continues to solidify their goth-industrial aesthetic while remaining first and foremost a pop album—albeit one wrapped in leather and spikes... some of the strongest standout songs of any HEALTH album to date"
Revolver - “They've been calling their aggressive, forward-leaning sound 'noise rock' since forming in 2005, but there are vibrant elements of industrial, electronic, post-punk, metal and avant-garde... They may have started as a band toiling in underground obscurity, but the guys have seen their music travel not only far, but deeply into the lives of fans reacting to the songs of pain, frustration and understated rage."
Sputnik - "a sonically sound, exhilarating roller-coaster ride that shrewdly assesses the last four years of recorded material and makes a concerted effort to deliver the most punishingly heavy album of their career... RAT WARS ends up being their most comprehensive album to date. It’s another ambitious voyage into heavier pastures, building on everything they’ve been doing since Disco3. The result is a record that’s more cinematic, darker, louder, heavier and harder than anything we’ve heard from them before today, and frankly, I’m here for it." - 4.9/5
CVLT Nation - “No other band does it like HEALTH — and that’s a big fucking FACT!... RAT WARS is a perfect balance between Industrial Power and Ethereal Soundscapes.”
Ghost Cult Mag - "Rat Wars is up there with the cutting edge of music and genre boundaries" - 9/10 stars
New Noise Magazine - In the aftermath of the apocalypse, as the smoke recedes, there’s only one thing left on this planet to devour what remains: the rats. Serving as a soundtrack to the end of days, RAT WARS by HEALTH, out now via Loma Vista Recordings, is the bands heaviest and personal effort to date.
UPROXX - “[RAT WARS] anoints the Los Angeles trio as leaders of the subgenre’s latest wave. With an ear for immersive sonics, mechanistic grit, and heavy-hitting breakdowns, HEALTH know exactly what they’re doing."
The Soundboard - “… bloody hell, is RAT WARS powerful.”
Heavy Consequence - “[‘CHILDREN OF SORROW’ & ‘SICKO’] showcase the multi-faceted sound that’s allowed HEALTH to expand their fanbase and crossover conventional genre barriers."
MXDWN - “[‘UNLOVED’ is] catchy, creepy and psychedelic in the best way possible."
Mixdown Magazine - "The new record is inherently HEALTH, but with something new, something fresh."
GRAMMY.com - "...RAT WARS brings the darkness and heaviness from entirely new directions"
Brooklyn Vegan - "Rat Wars sounds like a record that only HEALTH could've made"
UK:
KERRANG! – 4/5 ‘LA industrial geniuses HEALTH exude menacing melancholy and evident greatness on glowering fifth album…’
METAL HAMMER - ‘Rat Wars feels very much like the completion of their evolution into a full-blown, destructive industrial metal powerhouse...if you’re a pure metalhead and you’ve ever been intrigued, but unsure, about whether or not Health are for you, now is the time to investigate.’
LINE OF BEST FIT – “Truly, there’s never been a better time to join the HEALTH experiment.”
DISTORTED SOUND – 9/10 ‘It’s a stunningly wrought album, exploring some of their most personal themes and some of the best music to bear their name’
THE SOUNDBOARD – “… bloody hell, is RAT WARS powerful.”
SOUNDSPHERE – “HEALTH have become the biggest industrial band of the modern era, and I will die on that hill.” + “‘Rat Wars’ is this band’s most creative collection yet”
METAL EPIDEMIC – Video review: 5/5 from Duncan + 4.5/5 from Dave “This album is the best thing they’ve released” + “The band are genuinely passionate about what they do”
LOUD + QUIET – 6/10 album review
MAXIMUM VOLUME MUSIC - 9/10 album review
GHOST CULT MAGAZINE - 9/10 album review
NOIZZE - 9/10 album review
DIY MAGAZINE – 3/5 album review
THE MIDLANDS ROCK – RAT WARS album review
GERMANY:
Fuze - "Rat Wars" is as accessible as it gets. And anything but boring. This is the soundtrack for driving through neon-lit streets, dancing in abandoned bunkers and game the night away.
Visions - …the band from Los Angeles embodies the principle of radical contrasts” + “Aggressiveness meets hypothermic sensitivity and personal pain”
Plattentests - John Famiglietti, BJ Miller and Jake Duzsik run riot in their own style between electro-carnage, industrial riffing, and reverb-laden drumming, with Duzsik's ethereal voice floating above them as the antithesis.
GUITAR - 4/5 album review + record of the month
Sonic Seducer - “Anyone who has liked HEALTH so far, will love RAT WARS”
Tip Berlin -“Ecstasy in sound is the specialty of the noise experts at Health.” + “Thrash metal meets techno surfaces, EDM moments and ambient dreams, delicate vocals and nerdy quotes from electro, metal and pop history.”
AUSTRALIA
Triple j The Racket: "An album that really does sound like [HEALTH] have fully embraced the metal side of their sound."
Maniacs: "The most violent yet vulnerable LP of their career, RAT WARS is a brutal collection of songs that doubles as the group's most comprehensive artistic statement."
Mixdown Magazine: "The new record is inherently HEALTH, but with something new, something fresh."
CANADA
Exclaim! (Best Albums of 2023) - “RAT WARS remains as danceable as any of their synth-y goth offerings to date. Pay whatever they're asking for a ticket to HEALTH's upcoming tour — stank face and headbanging come free.”
Northern Transmissions (from this recent interview/feature piece): “Their music is cinematic in its sonic vastness, providing luminous spaces to lose oneself in, and grounded by immensely vulnerable lyricism delivered with great care and sensitivity by vocalist Jake Duzsik. It’s music to get lost in whilst finding your voice or place – purpose, even – in the world.”
LINKS:
Pivot: www.i.hlth.band/ratwars
HEALTH: www.youwillloveeachother.com/
LV Bodega: www.bodega.lomavistarecordings.com/colle.......h
ALBUM PACKSHOT:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3zabi1bstrcchca27.......0
ALBUM BIO:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hxenqs7gl9p4oelnr.......0
LEAD PHOTO:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dx6rcxqhml6f8ku5a.......0
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tl3ixpo0kjjlxwk85.......0
www.youwillloveeachother.com/
RAT WARS tracklist:
1. DEMIGODS
2. FUTURE OF HELL
3. HATEFUL
4. (OF ALL ELSE)
5. CRACK METAL
6. UNLOVED
7. CHILDREN OF SORROW
8. SICKO
9. ASHAMED
10. (OF BEING BORN)
11. DSM-V
12. DON’T TRY
TOURING DATES 2023 & 2024:
2023:
12/05 - Munich, Germany ^
12/07 - Hamburg, Germany ^
12/08 - Berlin, Germany ^ / 8mm Bar (DJ set)
12/10 - Leipzig, Germany ^
12/11 - Cologne, Germany ^
12/14 - Rough Trade outstore - Downstairs At The Dome - SOLD OUT
12/16 - London, UK ^
^ = with Sleep Token
2024:
03/02/24 - Ventura, CA - Ventura Music Hall *
03/04/24 - Mesa, AZ - Nile Theatre *
03/05/24 - Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine *
03/07/24 - Austin, TX - Empire Garage *
03/08/24 - Dallas, TX - Studio at the Factory *
03/09/24 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live Midtown *
03/11/24 - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade - Heaven Stage *
03/12/24 - Charlotte, NC - The Underground *
03/13/24 - Richmond, VA - The National *
03/15/24 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Steel *
03/16/24 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer *
03/17/24 - Boston, MA - Royale *
03/19/24 - Toronto, ON - The Opera House *
03/20/24 - Detroit, MI - The Majestic *
03/22/24 - Chicago, IL - Concord Music Hall *
03/23/24 - Saint Louis, MO - Red Flag *
03/25/24 - Englewood, CO - Gothic Theatre *
03/26/24 - Salt Lake City, UT - Metro Music Hall *
03/28/24 - Seattle, WA - The Showbox *
03/29/24 - Vancouver, BC - The Commodore *
03/30/24 - Portland, OR - Revolution Hall *
04/01/24 - Roseville, CA - Goldfield Trading Post *
04/02/24 - San Francisco, CA - August Hall *
04/04/24 - Los Angeles, CA - Belasco Theater *
* with support from Pixel Grip and King Yosef
Facebook : www.facebook.com/healthnoise
