Originating from the Los Angeles underground experimental music community, they gained prominence with a remix of "Crimewave" by Crystal Castles before releasing a self-titled album in 2007.

The band also released the collaborative double album Disco4 in 2020 and 2022, and have contributed to a variety of video game soundtracks, including those for Max Payne 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Grand Theft Auto V, and Ultrakill.

[3] Their earliest work was inspired by experimentation in Los Angeles' underground music scene, with the intention of incorporating it into a more conventional band format.

[5][6][7] At the time, Famiglietti stated in an interview that it "completely changes the tone of anything you want to record; makes a lot of things dark and beautiful".

[14] The game's music director, Ivan Pavlovich stated that his team "wanted to give Max a sound that is really identifiable"; after they saw Health play "it was very clear that they were the ones".

[18] In 2013, this was followed by the track "High Pressure Dave" which appeared in Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto V.[19] Health's third album, Death Magic, was released on August 7, 2015, on Loma Vista Records.

[23][24][25] Over the next year, Health also composed the soundtrack for GTA Online's Arena War update,[26] and the song "Major Crimes" for the video game Cyberpunk 2077.

[32][33] The full album was eventually released on April 8, 2022, featuring artists such as Poppy, Lamb of God, The Neighbourhood and Street Sects.

[36] This was followed by the announcement of their sixth album, Rat Wars, with a release date of December 7, alongside two additional singles, "Children of Sorrow" and "Sicko".

[48][38] Having origins in Los Angeles' experimental scene,[4][42] the band has also been classified as noise rock,[49][43] though Duzsik has stated that even its earlier work would not be categorised as such by "purists".

[17] At the time of its first record, the band was referred to as creating noise music with "raw synth, haunting monotone vocals, and drum[s].

4: Slaves of Fear, Health shifted their style, incorporating more electronic elements and a closer adherence to a standard song structure, and taking greater inspiration from metal and industrial music.

[4][16][2] Famigletti has credited this to the innovation in the electronic scene at the time, stating that he found the resulting music to have "sheer power" that made it "orders of magnitude bigger" than its precedents.