HEALTH RAT WARS LOMA VISTA RECORDINGS The L.A. industrial-rock band HEALTH’s new album RAT WARS is the most violent yet vulnerable LP oftheir 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’s 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 atthe 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 outof 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.

PERTURBATOR – who received massive acclaim as the face of retro-inspired dark electronic music – breaks free from the ubiquitous cliches of “synthwave.” If the “New Model” EP [2017], signaled a drastic sonic departure in Perturbator’s oeuvre, “Lustful Sacraments” witnesses further reinvention – ushering fans into deeper uncharted territories. “Lustful Sacraments” represents James “Perturbator” Kent's most mature work to date, merging the dark synthesized tones that made Perturbator a household name with classic post-punk, goth, and heavy techno rhythms. The album weaves Perturbator's classic cinematic atmosphere with thundering drums, subtle electronic melodies and in-your-face guitar hooks. In 2012, Perturbator's onslaught of initial releases (“Night Driving Avenger,” “TERROR 404,” “Nocturne City” and “I Am the Night”) rocketed him through the ranks of retro-electronic music producers – receiving tons of accolades and comparisons to the likes of JOHN CARPENTER, TANGERINE DREAM, GOBLIN, and VANGELIS. As he continued to hone his skills, Perturbator never stopped pushing for something deeper. This experimentation took a darker turn with his 2014 smash breakthrough “Dangerous Days” and went violently into the mire with 2016's Billboard-chart topping “The Uncanny Valley.” But James “Perturbator” Kent continued to feel the limitations of the genre he helped define. 2017 saw the surprise release of “New Model.” The groundbreaking EP eschewed pop culture references and brought on new influences, ranging from KRAFTWERK to LORN to NINE INCH NAILS. Kent wanted to explore releasing music on its own merit, rather than regurgitating nostalgic tropes, believing they interfered with the subject matter. Five years since the release of his last album, “Lustful Sacraments” showcases the total evolution of an artist. The album continues Perturbator's nihilistic legacy of exploring future worlds, ones regarding humanity's inevitable downfall. “It's an album about bad habits, dissatisfaction and addiction. An overall look at how we, as a species, lean towards self-destruction,” James Kent states. Musically, “Lustful Sacraments” takes influences from post-punk and goth from the 1980s and early 1990s, while retaining the oppressive, dark electronic tones Perturbator is known for. At the crossroads of everything achieved, “Lustful Sacraments” will be the final release by Blood Music, the perfect ending statement to an iconic 8-year-long collaboration. Following the difficult worldwide situation in 2020, Perturbator will return to the stage in October- November 2021, supporting “Lustful Sacraments” on stage with a brand new live show and bringing the album into further sonic dimensions. A world tour is planned for 2022-2023. * Pre-order date: TBC * Release date: TBC * Formats: CD: - 4-panel Digipack CD Vinyl: - Gatefold LP - Picture disc LP Tapes: - Cassette with 6-panel J-card Digital Download: - All download and streaming services, such as iTunes, Bandcamp, Amazon mp3, Google Play, Spotify, Deezer, etc. * Track List: 01 – Reaching Xanadu 02 – Lustful Sacraments 03 – Excess 04 – Secret Devotion (ft. True Body) 05 – Death Of The Soul 06 – The Other Place 07 – Dethroned Under A Funeral Haze 08 – Messalina, Messalina 09 – God Says (ft. Hangman's Chair) Credits : All tracks written, performed and produced by James “Perturbator” Kent. Mixed by James “Perturbator” Kent. Mastering by Jaime Gomez Arellano of Orgone Studios. Released by Blood Music. All artwork by Mathias Leonard. Layouts by Jean Valnoir Simoulin. Synths, drum programming, guitars, bass and vocals by James “Perturbator” Kent. Additional vocals on track 03 by Maniac 2121. Vocals, additional synths and guitars on track 04 by True Body. Vocals on track 05 by BELIAL. Vocals on track 07 by Maniac 2121. Vocals on track 09 by Hangman's Chair. * Perturbator discography: Night Driving Avenger [EP] – 2012 TERROR 404 – 2012 Nocturne City [EP] – 2012 I Am the Night – 2012 Sexualizer [EP] – 2013 Dangerous Days – 2014 The Uncanny Valley – 2016 New Model [EP] – 2017 B-Sides & Remixes Vol. 1 & 2 [Compilation] – 2019 Lustful Sacraments – 2021