Helmet (band)

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Helmet
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Helmet at the Wacken Open Air 2018
Helmet at the Wacken Open Air 2018
General information
origin New York , United States
Genre (s) Alternative rock , alternative metal , post-hardcore , crossover
founding Late 1980s, 2004
resolution 1997
Website www.helmetmusic.com
Founding members
Page Hamilton
guitar
 Peter Mengede
John Stanier
Henry Bogdan
Current occupation
Vocals, guitar
 Page Hamilton
guitar
 Dan Beeman
Drums
 Kyle Stevenson
bass
 Dave Case

Helmet is an American rock band .

history

Helmet was founded in New York in the late 1980s by Page Hamilton (lead guitar, vocals), Peter Mengede (guitar), Henry Bogdan (bass) and John Stanier (drums).

After a constantly changing line-up and a longer break from 1997 to 2004, the band around mastermind Page Hamilton exists again today, but with an almost completely new line-up: After an interlude with Anthrax member Frank Bello on bass (tour member), the former will - and White Zombie drummer John Tempesta and Chris Traynor, the former Orange 9mm guitarist who also works for Gavin Rossdale's Band Institute , are currently the band members Dan Beeman on guitar, Dave Case on bass and Kyle Stevenson on drums. The only remaining founding member is Page Hamilton.

The album Size Matters , on which the typical helmet sound is expanded in particular with more melodic variants, disappointed many critics who accused Page Hamilton of copying his epigones .

On July 18, 2006, the album Monochrome was released . In it, Helmet partially return to their old sound. Mike Jost as drummer and Jeremy Chatelain on bass are new to the line-up.

After the release of the video for the title track Monochrome , Helmet headlined the Vans Warped Tour 2006. Shortly after the tour ended, band members Chris Traynor and Mike Jost left the band for personal and family reasons, and Jeremy Chatelain left the band. Page Hamilton was now alone, but a short time later went back to looking for new band members.

In the fall of the same year, Page Hamilton put together a completely new line-up, consisting of Jimmy Thompson (guitar), Jon Fuller (bass) and Kyle Stevenson (drums). In January 2007 there was a small tour along the US west coast as tour support for the band Guns N 'Roses .

In March 2007 the band went on tour in Australia, which was enthusiastically received by critics and fans. In April the video for the song Money Shot was released, which can also be viewed on the band's Myspace website.

In January 2009, Page Hamilton toured small clubs in Europe with a completely new Helmet line-up.

On September 17, 2010, the seventh Helmet studio album Seeing Eye Dog was released via the Work Song label. The special edition of the album includes a second CD with live recordings from the 2006 Warped Tour in San Francisco .

style

Page Hamilton's autograph on a ticket to a Helmet concert (September 20, 2019)

The band combined NY hardcore with Sonic Youth- like noise attacks and jazz- influenced harmony and rhythm .

Helmet was playing a style that was previously unknown outside of the hardcore scene. The simple, bone-dry guitar riffs were combined with a unique rhythmic precision and vocals that Page Hamilton described as belonging to the rhythm section . The E string, tuned down to D ( dropped D tuning ), made it possible to play power chords with one finger. This "chopping" on the fingerboard is one of the main features of the first albums.

Because of this uniqueness, Helmet's style became the inspiration for many musicians from the harder rock area. Especially music groups from the area of ​​the later emerged Nu Metal often refer to Helmet and emphasize their role model function.

Discography

Singer / guitarist Page Hamilton after a helmet concert in Frankfurt am Main (September 20, 2019)

Studio albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1992 Meantime - - - - US68 (29 weeks)
US
First published: June 23, 1992
1994 Betty DE16 (15 weeks)
DE 		AT18 (10 weeks)
AT 		CH32 (6 weeks)
CH 		UK38 (2 weeks)
UK 		US45 (12 weeks)
US
First published: June 21, 1994
1997 Aft key DE52 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT22 (7 weeks)
AT 		- - US47 (5 weeks)
US
First published: March 18, 1997
2004 Size Matters DE97 (1 week)
DE 		- - - US121 (1 week)
US
First published: October 5, 2004
2006 Monochrome - - - - US159 (1 week)
US
First published: July 18, 2006

more publishments

  • 1990: Strap It On
  • 2010: Seeing Eye Dog
  • 2016: Dead to the World

Compilations

year title Remarks
1995 Born annoying First published: April 21, 1995
2004 Unsung: The Best of Helmet (1991–1997) First published: January 27, 2004

Singles

  • 1990: repetition
  • 1991: Unsung
  • 1992: Give It
  • 1992: In the Meantime
  • 1993: Primitive / Born Annoying
  • 1993: Just Another Victim (with House of Pain )
  • 1994: Biscuits for Smut (# 78 UK)
  • 1994: Wilma's Rainbow
  • 1994: Milquetoast
  • 1997: Like I Care
  • 1997: Exactly What You Wanted
  • 2004: See You Dead
  • 2004: Unwound
  • 2005: Smart
  • 2006: Gone
  • 2006: Monochrome
  • 2007: Money Shot

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmet at Allmusic (English)
  2. ↑ Jason Lymangrover: Review of Seeing Eye Dog at Allmusic (English). Retrieved April 2, 2011.
  3. ↑ Ulf Kubanke: Review of Seeing Eye Dog. laut.de; Retrieved April 2, 2011.
  4. ↑ Helmet / Seeing Eye Dog (2CD). musicline.de; Retrieved April 2, 2011.
  5. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US