LA-based industrial rock titans HEALTH have shared a chilling new video for one of their latest singles, “SICKO.” The track will be featured on the band’s forthcoming LP RAT WARS, due out December 7 via Loma Vista Recordings.
Premiering at Bloody Disgusting, the visual pairs the engrossing track—a half-time hellscape that samples Godflesh’s “Like Rats”—with eerie clips from 90s indie horror scenes.
Director Mynxii White explains: “Taking inspiration from the haunting imagery of 90s music videos by GODFLESH, we put together a video collage of some of our own favorite obscure horror moments of the same time period in one ‘sick’ video for ‘SICKO.’ Some of my best memories are from the stranger indie movies I’d watch in the middle of the night when everyone was sleeping, and it was a lot of fun going back in time to pull moments like a ‘greatest hits’ of all those dark hours of bloody horror.”
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.
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. 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.