Helmet

Assembled in New York, USA, in 1989, this Alternative-Metal band initially consisted of frontman singer+guitarist Page Hamilton, guitarist Peter Mengede, bass player Henry Bogdan and drummer John Stanier.

Two years later the quartet released an independent album entitled "Strap It On", subsequently, the group, inked a deal with Interscope Records that re-released the debut disc.
In the summer of 1992 the band issued "Meantime", which cracked The Billboard Top 200 chart reaching the #68 position, it included the Modern Rock top 30 hit single, "Unsung".
The following year Helmet contributed the opening track, "Just Another Victim", to the "Judgment Night" soundtrack, a Rap-Metal duet with House Of Pain.
After taking time out for themselves and after new guitarist Rob Echeverria joined to replace Mengede, the band set to work, recording their third effort, 1994's "Betty"; the album climbed into the top 50 of The Billboard Top 200 chart and generated the Mainstream Rock top 40 single "Milquetoast" plus the minor hits "Wilma's Rainbow" and "Biscuits For Smut".
A collection of early material and unreleased songs, called "Born Annoying", was released a year later, then Echeverria left the band, the remaining members decided to continue as a three-piece.
Helmet resurfaced in the spring 1997 with "Aftertaste"; the record peaked at #47 on The Billboard Top 200 Albums chart and the single, "Exactly What You Wanted", cracked the top 20 of The Active Rock chart; they toured for a bit and then in early 1999, the band decided to call it quits.
After a five-year hiatus, Hamilton reformed Helmet, with guitarist Chris Traynor, former Anthrax bassist Frank Bello and drummer John Tempesta; the band's come-back album, "Size Matters", was released in September 2004; it reached #121 on The Billboard 200 and yielded The Mainstream Rock top 30 hit "See You Dead".

The band, which now features Hamilton, Traynor and new members, bassist Jeremy Chatelain and drummer Mike Jost, returned in July 2006 with "Monochrome". Their first release on Warcon Records, which peaked at #11 on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart, includes the single "Gone".

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Strap It On

(1991)

1. Repetition
2. Rude
3. Bad Mood
4. Sinatra
5. FBLA
6. Blacktop
7. Distracted
8. Make Room
9. Murder

 

Meantime

(1992)

1. In the Meantime
2. Ironhead
3. Give It
4. Unsung
5. Turned Out
6. He Feels Bad
7. Better
8. You Borrowed
9. FBLA II
10. Role Model

 

Betty

(1994)

1. Wilma's Rainbow
2. I Know
3. Biscuits For Smut
4. Milquetoast
5. Tic
6. Rollo
7. Street Crab
8. Clean
9. Vaccination
10. Beautiful Love
11. Speechless
12. The Silver Hawaiian
13. Overrated
14. Sam Hell

 

Aftertaste

(1997)

1. Pure
2. Renovation
3. Exactly What You Wanted
4. Like I Care
5. Driving Nowhere
6. Birth Defect
7. Broadcast Emotion
8. It's Easy To Get Bored
9. Diet Aftertaste
10. Harmless
11. (High) Visibility
12. Insatiable
13. Crisis King

 

Size Matters

(2004)

1. Smart
2. Crashing Foreign Cars
3. See You Dead
4. Drug Lord
5. Enemies
6. Unwound
7. Everybody Loves You
8. Surgery
9. Speak And Spell
10. Throwing Punches
11. Last Breath

 

Monochrome

(2006)

Tracklisting posted on helmetmusic.com

Swallowing Everything
Brand New
Bury Me
Monochrome
On Your Way Down
Money Shot
Gone
Almost Out Of Sight
Howl
410
Goodbye

 

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