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Health are not afraid of you. Or at least that’s what the Cali noise-rockers proclaimed to antipodean shores in a flat-out insane promo video for their early-2010 visit, featuring iconoclastic shots of Crocodile Dundee poster-shredding and Lord Of The Rings DVD-smashing.

Health are not afraid of you. Or at least that’s what the Cali noise-rockers proclaimed to antipodean shores in a flat-out insane promo video for their early-2010 visit, featuring iconoclastic shots of Crocodile Dundee poster-shredding and Lord Of The Rings DVD-smashing. Fortunately for us, the tour lived up to the weaponry-laden madness. And even better, we’re in store for a sequel less than a year later. “We just finished shooting part two yesterday actually,” explains vocalist Jake Duzsik. “It’s kinda like a trailer to a really, really bad action movie, shot on video, and starring us. It’s fucking ridiculous, definitely more ridiculous than the first one. But there’s no didgeridoo this time.”

The filmic inspiration can be traced to a pretty unlikely source, Jake explains, “It’s a lot like Nollywood cinema, which is Nigerian cinema. It’s actually the most prolific movie culture in the world outside of Hollywood and Bollywood,” he states. “The technology is really low-level and the budget isn’t really there, but they do these crazy, full-on action movies with these amazingly edited trailers.”

Speaking of video insanity, the blood-drenched clip for We Are Water, one of the many highlights off Health’s sophomore release, holds up as one of the best of the year thanks to the direction of Eric Wareheim (of Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! fame). “You know it’s funny, he’s a friend of ours and a fan, and he just came up to us and was like ‘I wanna make a video for you guys,’” Jake recalls. “We didn’t approach him at all, he just told us ‘here’s my idea’, and we were like ‘awesome’. He knows what he wants to do creatively, and doesn’t want to have to constantly run it by the fucking band,” he explains. “We had confidence in him. We were actually in Australia when they did they shoot.”

Health’s palate is definitely attuned to the acerbic and nasty side of life, which is evident not only in their musical output, but also in the consistently brilliant @_HEALTH_ twitter feed – which contains choice nuggets such as “Period blood tastes fucking crazy,” and “Few things turn me on more than rubbing a tiny bit of cum in a bandmates’ toothbrush.” Jake explains how they’ve embraced the social media outlet as an art form, “Maybe twitter’s like the modern version of the iambic pentameter or some shit,” he laughs.

“I guess we just have a philosophy with twitter, like it seems like a good form to try and be funny and say something interesting,” Jake states. “Whereas a lot of bands’ twitters are just so fucking boring it’s incredible, like ‘Oh hey Cleveland, we’re doing a show tonight’ or ‘Going to the venue for soundcheck,’ like it couldn’t be any more insipid or bland,” he says with disdain. “Our sort of approach is to never say anything like that; it’s always about shitting or sex or shit we don’t like, stuff that pisses me off. If it’s not going to be insightful, it should at least be funny.”

As well as fulfilling desires as budding auteurs and 140-character poets, 2010 has seen the band touring non-stop as well as releasing their second remix album, DISCO2. The band contributed the new studio track USA Boys, which signalled a distinct change in direction from their signature noise-rock sound. “I think it was more of a one-off, it’s not like we’re saying our next record is going to be a pop record,” he muses.

“It’s sort of blurring the lines between the electronic elements of the band. There’s going to be a lot more electronic stuff on the new record.”

While the third album won’t necessarily mark a definitive overhaul of the band’s sound, it appears it will adhere to Health’s evolutionary timeline. “The first record was very atonal with a lot of noise, progressing to the second album being more melodic. I think we’ll follow that line of progression; we don’t want to make the same record twice.”

As well as noise-punk two-piece No Age, Health have emerged onto the world stage out of LA’s burgeoning The Smell scene, where a contemporary mythos seems to be establishing. “The image of it, especially in European press, is a bit distorted,” Jake contemplates. “They make it out to be like The Factory in 1960s New York, with Warhol and Velvet Underground and everything,” he muses.

“It’s just underground music, like No Age, us, Abe Vigoda. We weren’t really part of the indie scene until that Smell thing kinda broke.

“For a band like that, to have an underground network through the country is how you tour,” he explains further. “You send emails and you know people; say you’re in San Francisco you can play an art gallery, or a warehouse, or someone’s loft. But it’s really hard to keep those places open, because the cops bust them, or some kids get drunk, or there’s a fight.

“The Smell is a really stable, underground, all-ages place that’s really well-run. It’s sort of acted as the bedrock, the epicentre, of all this noise-pop music, the sort of music that’s not aspiring to get signed to a major label, or get A&R people to their shows – it’s sort of reactionary to that,” he quips.

As the band prepare to once again jettison from their LA home, they herald a fresh declaration to our fair nation from their ever-reliable twitter page – “AUSSIE TOUR PT. 2: WE ARE STILL NOT AFRAID FUCKERS.”

We’ve been warned.

HEALTH play The East Brunswick Club on Friday January 21 with Absolute Boys and Bum Creek. Tickets through The East box office, 9388 9794 or eastbrunswickclub.com. Health: Disco2 is out now through Popfrenzy.