What to make of the band that HEALTH have become? To keep up with them these past few years has been an often-dizzying endeavour; they’ve collaborated with everybody from Poppy to Nine Inch Nails, and undulated between refining their punishingly loud brand of industrial noise rock and attempting to tear apart its very esence at the seams by pushing it into uncharted territory – melodic one minute, avowedly experimental the next. Add to this that they’ve carved out what they describe as a “coalition of subcultures” in a fanbase, incorporating everybody from terminally online meme-botherers, to gamers, to enlightened true believers in the Los Angeles trio’s self-described brand of “cum metal”, and you wonder whether there’s another band quite like them.
