Health à Nancy - Billets

Organisateur : L'Autre Canal
 
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.