Health have served up a banger for this week's Feliz Jueves. The newest track "Shred Envy" was accompanied by a mix of old school and newer AMV techniques. This music video was directed by Morethanlethal, who you may know from other HEALTH music videos.
The video has all members shredding and singing their hearts out in four corners of the screen. As for the visuals, Health has paired the song with the anime Chainsaw Man, an anime following the character Denji as he befriends and makes a pact with a chainsaw dog demon, Pochita, for special powers, including the ability to shapeshift his hands and arms into chainsaws. Denji then signs up to be the guy to stop evil demons from doing harm to Japan.
The video for the song, "Shred Envy" can be summarized as emotionally and tonally heavy. We hear more metal stylings than usual, especially the industrial/guitar breakdown to end the song. The background screams from Leo Ashline of Street Sects really add to the track’s overwhelming sense of existential dread, the feeling of wanting to escape from your past knowing you'll never be able to correct it and just have to move forward:
All the things I did… / It’s not that I don’t care / But I can’t take them back / Wish I’d never been born
Also the lyrics towards the end:
Wouldn’t worry so much / I can’t take it back / Nothing I can do I’m lost / I lost myself / Why didn’t it kill me? / I lost myself
All of this really reinforces a sense of overwhelming guilt, especially the experience of living through something you feel would feel would be the death of you emotionally.
The full-length Conflict DLC comes out in three more weeks, on Thursday, December 11th, which means that outside of the release of Conflict DLC there will be only two "Operation Jueves" days left. You can still pre-order the album here.
The band have a run of Latin American dates Starting in 7 days supporting Pierce the Veil:
11/28 Monterrey, MX @ Showcenter Complex
11/30 Mexico City, MX @ Pepsi Center Wtc
12/02 Guadalajara, MX @ Teatro Estudio Cavart
12/05 Bogota, CO @ Centro De Eventos
12/07 Lima, PE @ Centro de Convenciones Barranco Arena
12/10 Santiago, CL @ Teatro Caupolicán
12/12 Buenos Aires, AR @ Complejo Art Media
12/14 Curitiba, BR @ Live Curitiba
12/16 Sao Paulo, BR @ Espaço Unimed
HEALTH will also tour with Carpenter Brut this spring, with the following dates announced:
03/31 San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
04/03 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
04/04 Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
04/05 Seattle, WA @ Showbox Sodo
04/07 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Union Event Center
04/08 Denver, CO @ The Mission Ballroom
04/10 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
04/11 Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed
04/12 Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
04/14 Toronto, ON @ History
04/15 Montreal, QC @ MTelus
04/17 Boston, MA @ House of Blues (Boston)
04/18 Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
04/19 Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall
04/20 Washington D.C. @ 9.30 Club
04/22 Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl (Nashville)
04/24 Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
04/29 Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
05/01 Los Angelas, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
05/04 Dallas, TX @ The Bomb Factory
05/05 Austin, TX @ EMO'S
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