HEALTH today released RAT WARS ULTRA EDITION, a deluxe expansion of their critically acclaimed 2023 album RAT WARS, via Loma Vista Recordings. The release arrives with a four-track EP that features three collaborations, including the band’s moody, pulsating new single with Filter, “FREE TO DIE.” HEALTH makes music that could soundtrack an apocalypse, and Filter shares that same intensity. There’s a clear creative synergy between the two bands, marked by bold experimentation and a willingness to push boundaries, drawing from a diverse mix of genres like industrial, electronic, metal, and avant-garde. On “FREE TO DIE,” HEALTH and Filter’s Richard Patrick converge these elements to form a raw, aggressive, and forward-thinking noise-rock sound. The EP also includes recently released collaborative singles “ASHAMED [Feat. Lauren Mayberry]” and “THE DRAIN”—a team up with Bad Omens and SWARM originally featured on the former’s CONCRETE JUNGLE [THE OST] (Sumerian Records)—as well as HEALTH’s stunning Spotify Singles cover of Deftones’ “Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away).” Stream or purchase RAT WARS ULTRA EDITION now HERE. Listen to “FREE TO DIE” HERE or by clicking the image below. 
RAT WARS ULTRA EDITION arrives on the heels of HEALTH’s recent GRAMMY Museum conversation and performance, KEXP live session, and festival plays at Riot Fest and Louder Than Life, among others. The band is currently on a headlining UK and European tour; a full itinerary is below with tickets on-sale HERE. HEALTH’s long and willfully unconventional career arc coalesced in RAT WARS, which cements them in the lineage of groundbreaking heavy acts like Nine Inch Nails and Ministry, who re-drew the borders between metal, electronic and pop music. Released digitally in December 2023, and produced by Stint (Oliver Tree, Demi Lovato) and mixed by Lars Stalfors (SALEM, The Neighbourhood), the album is now HEALTH’s highest streaming album with 24 million global streams to date. Their fifth LP 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. RAT WARS ended the year 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 others. Album track “HATEFUL” won the ‘Best Record From Games and Interactive Media’ category at A2IM’s 2024 Libera Awards for its appearance in the hit video game ULTRAKILL. This year has proven to be HEALTH’s busiest to date. In addition to their collaborations with FILTER, Bad Omens, and Lauren Mayberry, the band remixed 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.”) A ‘SELECTED WORKS’ Thematic Album Compilation playlist, featuring HEALTH’s most beloved tracks, was also recently released across all DSPs, while their worldwide headlining ‘RAT-BASED WARFARE TOUR’ has seen sell-outs across the globe, including across Australia and in Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Portland, Toronto, Seattle, and San Francisco, among others.
RAT WARS ULTRA EDITION Tracklist: 1. DEMIGODS 2. FUTURE OF HELL 3. HATEFUL (ft. SIERRA) 4. OF ALL ELSE 5. CRACK METAL 6. UNLOVED 7. CHILDREN OF SORROW 8. SICKO (ft. GODFLESH) 9. ASHAMED (OF BEING BORN) 10. DSM-V 11. DON’T TRY 12. FREE TO DIE (ft. Filter) 13. BE QUIET AND DRIVE (FAR AWAY) 14. ASHAMED (ft. Lauren Mayberry) 15. THE DRAIN (ft. Bad Omens and SWARM) HEALTH are currently on their UK headline tour. The band who played at Download Festival in the UK in June started their tour in Birmingham on the 15th October before finishing on the 20th October at Electric Brixton in London. You can see HEALTH headline at the following dates:
17th October – The Garage, Glasgow, UK
18th October – Opium, Dublin, Ireland
19th October – O2 Academy 2, Liverpool, UK
20th October – Electric Brixton, London UK Tickets on sale now HERE Praise for RAT WARS: “LA industrial geniuses HEALTH exude menacing melancholy and evident greatness on glowering fifth album.” – Kerrang! (4/5 stars) “HEALTH have become a full-blown, industrial metal powerhouse” – Metal Hammer (8/10 stars) “…dark thoughts mesh with enticing melodies, and harsh, distorted noise is draped in soft sheets of reverb. The purview is bleak… but the sound design and production are almost playfully ambitious” – New York Magazine/Vulture (Other Best Albums of 2023) “They’ve been calling their aggressive, forward-leaning sound ‘noise rock’ since forming in 2005, but there are vibrant elements of industrial, electronic, post-punk, metal and avant-garde… They may have started as a band toiling in underground obscurity, but the guys have seen their music travel not only far, but deeply into the lives of fans reacting to the songs of pain, frustration and understated rage.” – Revolver “RAT WARS remains as danceable as any of their synth-y goth offerings to date. Pay whatever they’re asking for a ticket to HEALTH’s upcoming tour — stank face and headbanging come free.” – Exclaim! (Best Albums of 2023) “[RAT WARS] anoints the Los Angeles trio as leaders of the subgenre’s latest wave. With an ear for immersive sonics, mechanistic grit, and heavy-hitting breakdowns, HEALTH know exactly what they’re doing.” – UPROXX “‘It’s a stunningly wrought album, exploring some of their most personal themes and some of the best music to bear their name” – Distorted Sound (9/10 stars) “The group’s fifth album continues to solidify their goth-industrial aesthetic while remaining first and foremost a pop album—albeit one wrapped in leather and spikes… some of the strongest standout songs of any HEALTH album to date” – FLOOD Magazine “…a sonically sound, exhilarating roller-coaster ride that shrewdly assesses the last four years of recorded material and makes a concerted effort to deliver the most punishingly heavy album of their career.” – Sputnik Reviews (4.9/5 stars, Classic) “… bloody hell, is RAT WARS powerful.” – The Soundboard “[‘CHILDREN OF SORROW’ & ‘SICKO’] showcase the multi-faceted sound that’s allowed HEALTH to expand their fanbase and crossover conventional genre barriers.” – Heavy Consequence Facebook / Twitter / Instagram / Soundcloud | 
