Cassette? Vinyl? Nah, this noise rock group surprise-launched its new single in an FPS

pcgamer.com:

An indie FPS might not be the first place you'd think to drop your band's latest single, but it's pretty much the perfect venue for noise rock group HEALTH. The long-running project's latest track, HATEFUL(opens in new tab), saw simultaneous release in the Cyber Grind mode of New Blood FPS Ultrakill(opens in new tab) and on streaming platforms.

HEALTH has been around since 2005 and has an extensive, quality back catalogue, as well as a solid connection to gaming. The band provided the knockout soundtrack to Rockstar's underrated Max Payne 3 (they were going for a different vibe!), and 11 years on Tears(opens in new tab) remains The Best Song You Can Lift Weights To. A remastered version(opens in new tab) of that OST is still in the works, but the band has also contributed to GTA V and Cyberpunk 2077's in-game radio stations, as well as the soundtrack for the latter game's Edgerunners spinoff on Netflix. In addition, HEALTH cultivates a bit of a gamer-shitposter vibe on its Discord for fans(opens in new tab) and social media. I love whatever the hell is going on in this Instagram post(opens in new tab).

After a Radahn Festival-themed concert on Twitch last year (that came with one of my favorite shirts(opens in new tab)), the band's come back to videogames yet again with HATEFUL and Ultrakill. It's a novel way of releasing new music, certainly more exciting than just pushing it out on Spotify et al anyway, and a pretty inspired venue by my reckoning. I've generally found the Venn diagram of «people who can dig New Blood games» and «people who can dig HEALTH» really is a circle. All parties involved have demonstrated an intimate understanding of their respective audiences.

I'm a games journalist and not a music one, but