HEALTH have released the new song “FREE TO DIE” featuring fellow industrial luminaries Filter.
The song touts a prominent duet by HEALTH’s Jake Duzsik and Richard Patrick of Filter. Their higher register voices are perfectly complimentary to one another, riding over blasts of hyper-compressed guitar and a pulsing electronic beat. Musically, the track falls in HEALTH’s court — though Patrick’s knack for cutting vocal melodies is also quite tangible.
“FREE TO DIE” comes as part of HEALTH’s newly released RAT WARS ULTRA EDITION, an expanded reissue of their 2023 full-length.
In addition to the original 12-song tracklist, the band has attached a four-song “Addendum” EP that includes the track with Filter plus previously released singles “ASHAMED” (featuring Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches), HEALTH’s cover of Deftones’ “Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away),” and the Bad Omens/SWARM collab “THE DRAIN.”
Speaking of Deftones, HEALTH have one more US live date left in 2024 at the former’s Dia De Los Deftones festival at Petco Park in San Diego on November 3rd (get tickets here). Meanwhile, Filter were just announced support for Jerry Cantrell’s early-2025 North American tour that kicks off in January.
Below you can stream HEALTH’s “FREE TO DIE” featuring Filter and see the artwork and tracklist for RAT WARS ULTRA EDITION.
RAT WARS ULTRA EDITION Artwork:
RAT WARS ULTRA EDITION Tracklist:
01. DEMIGODS
02. FUTURE OF HELL
03. HATEFUL (ft. SIERRA)
04. OF ALL ELSE
05. CRACK METAL
06. UNLOVED
07. CHILDREN OF SORROW
08. SICKO (ft. GODFLESH)
09. ASHAMED
10. (OF BEING BORN)
11. DSM-V
12. DON’T TRY
13. FREE TO DIE (ft. Filter)
14. BE QUIET AND DRIVE (FAR AWAY)
15. ASHAMED (ft. Lauren Mayberry)
16. THE DRAIN (ft. Bad Omens and SWARM)