HEALTH have launched a brand new single, ‘HATEFUL’, which premiered by New Blood Interactive‘s first-person shooter (FPS) recreation Ultrakill.
The tune was launched yesterday (April 27) through an replace to Ultrakill, and options collaborations with SIERRA on synth and Avenue Sects vocalist Leo Ashline — who featured on HEALTH’s newest album, ‘DISCO4 :: PART II’ — offering backup vocals.
A music video for ‘HATEFUL’, which options the Fortnite pores and skin for Resident Evil‘s Leon Kennedy dancing alongside to the monitor, has additionally been launched — test it out under.
Together with the monitor, the Ultrakill replace added an choice to play the shooter’s music exterior of particular ranges, a friends-only leaderboard for every stage, and in-game plushies of HEALTH (through PC Gamer).
“Sure, we’re premiering band’s new music within Ultrakill now,” reads an announcement from the sport’s developer. “Cope with it.”
This isn’t the primary time HEALTH music has been launched by video games. The noise rock band supplied the soundtrack to Rockstar‘s third-person shooter Max Payne 3 in 2012, and in 2020 launched ‘Main Crimes’ for Cyberpunk 2077.
The latter monitor was additionally featured in Cyberpunk Edgerunners, a spin-off animated sequence that was launched on Netflix final yr.
Final yr, HEALTH marketed an Elden Ring-themed reside present, which streamed footage of the band performing in Los Angeles behind visuals pulled from FromSoftware‘s motion recreation.
On the reside efficiency, HEALTH’s John Famiglietti instructed NME it was a “joke that saved multiplying”.
“It was a joke, However the quantity of people that had been like, ‘When is that this live performance?!’ It was getting changed into this massive factor,” defined Famiglietiti. “They made t-shirts, it was wild, we had already filmed our L.A present, and Loma Vista wished a reside stream that we’re simply gonna throw on Twitch without spending a dime anyway, so we had been like alright, fuck it. So, we mainly bootlegged ourselves into Elden Ring.”
Later this yr, HEALTH are set to carry out at ArcTanGent 2023, which might be held at Bristol this August. You’ll find tickets right here.
In different gaming information, Ministry Of Sound and Lush have introduced a weekly gaming stream, which is able to kick off subsequent month.
