RAT WARS

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AlbumDec 07 / 202312 songs, 41m 37s
Electro-Industrial Industrial Metal
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Veteran LA noise-rock trio HEALTH’s 2023 LP *RAT WARS* builds on their noise-centric industrial exercises, accentuating their hardcore tendencies with dance grooves, haunted synths, and wall-of-sound guitar lines. Taking influences from Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, and contemporaries like A Place to Bury Strangers, HEALTH builds deeply twisted odes to sweaty nights on the club floor and long mornings trying to fend off the sun. Like its predecessor, 2019’s *VOL. 4 :: SLAVES OF FEAR*, *RAT WARS* blends pain and catharsis, emptiness and ecstasy. On “UNLOVED,” the trio of Benjamin Miller, Jake Duzsik, and John Famiglietti cook up a track built around military-grade snare drums, gnarling synths, and hi-hats that slosh like boots in deep rain puddles. Duzsik takes the vocal lead, conjuring up a deeply dark tale as he croons in an almost-snarl, “And it was not my fault you were unloved when you were a child/I wasn\'t there.”

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In many ways RAT WARS feels like an album built for HEALTH to critique the vapidity of modern life. For example, "HATEFUL" conjures up images of sci-fi night-clubs during floor-clearing brawls, whilst Jake Duzsik’s meditations on love and loneliness hint…

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LA industrial geniuses HEALTH exude menacing melancholy and evident greatness on glowering fifth album…

An album that can wash past with as much staying power as candyfloss in a puddle.

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Will Marshall reviews the new album from noise rock trio Health! Read the review of 'Rat Wars' here on Distorted Sound!

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Rat Wars by HEALTH album review: The noise band trade their sonic variety of old with a lingering anxiety

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Rat Wars by HEALTH album review by David Saxum for Northern Transmissions. The trio's full-length drops on December 8th via Loma Vista

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HEALTH - RAT WARS review: They rinsed the dog out of this one.

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