HEALTH
HEALTH x Chelsea Wolfe "MEAN"
HEALTH joined forces with Chelsea Wolfe for their collaborative debut single, “MEAN.” The spellbinding track is out now worldwide via Loma Vista Recordings. Produced by Stint (Oliver Tree, Demi Lovato) and mixed by Lars Stalfors (SALEM, The Neighbourhood), "MEAN" fuses HEALTH's signature industrial sonic edge with Chelsea Wolfe's heavenly vocals to create an alternative banger pulsing with emotion and tension.
HEALTH’s headlining ‘RAT WARS EXPANSION TOUR’ is underway now, with shows across the Southeastern U.S.. The trio of Jake Duzsik, John “Johnny” Famiglietti, and BJ Miller will head to Europe in June for additional headlining shows and festival dates, with U.S. dates supporting Pierce the Veil to follow in October. A full itinerary is listed below and all tickets are on-sale now.
“MEAN” serves as HEALTH’s first new single following their collaboration with Filter, “FREE TO DIE,” which was featured on RAT WARS ULTRA EDITION, a deluxe expansion of their critically acclaimed 2023 album RAT WARS. In addition to last year’s collaboration with FILTER, HEALTH released tracks with Lauren Mayberry (“ASHAMED”) and Bad Omens (“THE DRAIN”), as well as a remix for Lamb of God’s song “Laid To Rest” for the metal legend’s Ashes Of The Wake (20th Anniversary Edition) LP for Epic Records/Legacy Recordings (guitarist Willie Adler is also featured on the menacing RAT WARS/RAT WARS ULTRA EDITION track "CHILDREN OF SORROW.”).
Produced by Stint and mixed by Stalfors, RAT WARS and RAT WARS ULTRA EDITION are HEALTH's highest streaming releases with a combined 88 million global streams to date. RAT WARS also debuted at #1 on Apple’s Alternative Top Albums Chart and in the Top 10 of Spotify's Top Albums Chart, while earning the trio cover stories at Revolver, Kerrang!, and Fuze, as well as guest appearances on Amoeba’s What’s In My Bag, Alternative Press’ Artist Friendly podcast, Comedy Bang Bang’s CBB.FM, Loudwire’s Loudwire Nights, Songwriters on Process, Joe Pug’s The Working Songwriter, and more. Their fifth LP landed on ‘Best Albums of 2023’ lists by Revolver, Alternative Press, New York Magazine/Vulture, MXDWN (#1 Album of 2023), Heavy Consequence, Uproxx, and FLOOD Magazine, among many others.
"MEAN" marks Chelsea Wolfe’s first new music since 2024’s acclaimed She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She, an album the New Yorker praised for "stretching gothic sounds and themes beyond the boundaries of genre." Wolfe completed the She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She triptych with two companion EPs: Undone, a collection of remixes from artists like ††† (Crosses), Boy Harsher, and Full of Hell, and Unbound, which stripped the songs to their raw, elemental core. Together, the triptych serves as a contemplation on the nature of change, an excursion through the ouroboric cycles that shape us, much like the phases of the moon.
Wolfe continues to tour through the fall—this spring she’ll perform at Los Angeles’ Cruel World Festival, then embark on a headline tour across Australia and New Zealand, followed by a North American run supporting Wardruna in September. Hi-res images, artwork, more info HERE.
RAT WARS
LOMA VISTA RECORDINGS
The L.A. industrial-rock band HEALTH’s new 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 humor… surprisingly it’s still fun as hell.
RAT WARS 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.
It could be 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.
The arena-rock grandeur of “DEMIGODS” segues into the jittery techno of “HATEFUL” (co-written with Spanish EBSM artist Sierra) and the merciless gabber-thrash of “CRACK METAL.” “CHILDREN OF SORROW” (with guitar from Lamb of God’s Willie Adler) and “SICKO” (which samples Godflesh’s “Like Rats”) slink with ‘90s goth menace. “ASHAMED” is corrupted R&B pop, while “DSM-V” is for peak time at the blood rave.
Born in the heady grime of downtown L.A.’s noise scene, singer-guitarist Jake Duzsik, bassist-producer John Famiglietti and drummer BJ Miller set out to be divisive as they sliced bare fragments of songs out of backfiring guitar pedals. But by 2009’s GET COLOR, everyone knew this band was something different.
They played major global festivals like Coachella and Primavera Sound, and after a brief detour to score the groundbreaking Rockstar games title Max Payne 3, they returned in 2015 with the long-awaited DEATH MAGIC.
That LP fully harnessed digital production tools, grafted into their shrieking noise and avant-garde soundscapes. The album became an entry point for a new generation of fans, finding an audience as easily in goth clubs as in bedroom production studios.
2019’s VOL.4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR won over heavy music fans with its thrash riffs dissolving into ambient melancholy and hip hop beats, while the lockdown era, two-part DISCO4 fully explored collaborative songwriting with peers from across metal, rap, electronic, and indie rock.
This long and willfully unconventional career arc has coalesced in RAT WARS. They are, at last, a band that is comfortable with their own uncomfortableness.
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