HEALTH have shared that their new album Conflict DLC will be released December 11 this year and promises it’ll be the band’s most fun and banger-filled album to date.
HEALTH has announced their highly anticipated sixth album, Conflict DLC, set to release in December via Loma Vista Recordings. The band have already shared the single ‘Ordinary Loss’ ahead of the release, which sees the band dropping their heaviest album opener to date.
The music video continues to show off HEALTH’s terminally online tendencies, and sees clips from famous anime and video games like Cowboy Bebop, Akira, Metal Gear Solid and Cyberpunk 2077 paired with the track’s lyrics.
You can listen to the track below:
Conflict DLC will be the band’s follow-up to 2023’s RAT WARS, which launched the band into the stratosphere. Following the release of the album, HEALTH would collab with Lauren Mayberry of CHVRCHES for an alternative version of the track ‘Ashamed’ and would write the song ‘The Drain’ with Noah Sebastion of Bad Omens and Joakim Karlsson from Swarm.
The noise rock group would also drop their industrial, synthwave-inspired cover of Deftones ‘Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away)’, which would become a staple for their setlist.
In an interview with NME, vocalist Jake Duzsik shared more about what we can expect from the next record. In the interview, Duzsik would say that they wanted this record to be a direct continuation of the themes and sounds of RAT WARS, but wanted to take it to the next level.
“If RAT WARS feels like a concept record in this expansive landscape, then Conflict DLC is going to distinguish itself by being more uptempo, more bangers, more fun and shit I know will be fun to play live.”
Duzik would also reveal that the album was written immediately following their extensive tour cycle in an effort to maintain their creative chemistry with live audiences.”The idea of Led Zeppelin writing ‘Zeppelin II’ just by riffing during soundcheck just isn’t how records get made any more,” Duzsik said. “Going on tour is the conversation; the conversation you’re having is with your audience … We wanted to stay really close and go back to write music immediately. It was appropriate to stay in the same aesthetic universe as ‘Rat Wars’ and the sonic palette.”
HEALTH’s upcoming record ‘Conflict DLC’ is set to release on December 11. You can peep the tracklist below:
1 ‘ORDINARY LOSS’
2 ‘BURN THE CANDLES’
3 ‘VIBE COP’
4 ‘TRASH DECADE’
5 ‘TORTURE II’
6 ‘ANTIDOTE’
7 ‘DARKAGE’
8 ‘SHREDENVY’
9 ‘YOU DIED’
10 ‘THOUGHT LEADER’
11 ‘DON’T KILL YOURSELF’
12 ‘WASTED YEARS’
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