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RAT WARS - Limited Edition Red Vinyl

£29.99

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:
    Vinyl 12" Album
    Barcode:
    888072581449
  • 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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