HEALTH Returning To New Zealand in March 2025

Christmas has arrived early for local sonic fringe dwellers, HEALTH have today announced their long prayed-for return to Aotearoa New Zealand. Last here eight years ago, the LA trio of Jake Duzsik, John Famiglietti and B.J. Miller are widely credited for spearheading a resurgent wave of club-scorching, electronic-industrial rock / metal with the noisescape evolutions of 2015's Death Magic onwards. HEALTH's two-part DISCO4 (2020 & 2022) remixes collection features such major figures as 100Gecs, JPEGMAFIA, Ghostemane, Perturbator, Nine Inch Nails, Poppy, Ho99o9, Lamb of God and many more, while their new 2023 album RAT WARS includes collaborations with Godflesh and SIERRA — rereleased this year in a lux expanded ULTRA EDITION. These are arguably the first absolutely can't-miss shows announced for 2025, get ready to pounce on tickets when they go live this Tuesday, brought to you by Valhalla Touring...

“Since our inception, we’ve always thought of ourselves as like a future primitive soundscape” - Jake Duzsik

HEALTH

Wednesday 5th March - Double Whammy, Auckland
Thursday 6th March - San Fran, Wellington*

Auckland tickets via UTR
*Wellington tickets via Moshtix
Tickets on sale from noon, Tuesday 17th December

Hit play on 'HATEFUL' featuring SIERRA, from HEALTH's latest album RAT WARS...

Watch HEALTH playing 'Major Crimes' live on KEXP, featured on the Cyberpunk 2077 original soundtrack...

Press release:

Alongside of their forthcoming appearance at Knotfest Australia, the enigmatic noise rock-cum-industrial metal trio that is HEALTH returns to New Zealand for their headline tour in many years off the back of their seventh album, Rat Wars, a dystopian, painfully horny fever dream that may just be the zenith of their evolution.

HEALTH earned a reputation for themselves in the Los Angeles underground experimental music community with their remix of the Crystal Castles song ‘Crimewave’, pre-dating the release of their debut self-titled album in 2007.

At the time of this first record, HEALTH’S distinctive take on noise rock involved the transmutation of a microphone and guitar pedal, known as a “Zoothorn”. Unpredictable, unstructured noise compliments goth-appealing vocals that possess an "even, unaffected feel. A softness, like a Zombies melody, or even a Gregorian chant".

With their 2019 release of Death Magic and Vol. 4: Slaves of Fear, new song structures had formed around their noisy landscapes and HEALTH began incorporating more electronic elements, which Famigletti has credited to the innovative electronic scene.

With their 2024, RAT WARS, the band’s inspiration in metal and industrial music, results in a soundscape possessing sheer power much greater than all its noise rock, experimental and electro-industrial predecessors combined.