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HELMET LYRICS


Album: ''Born Annoying / Rumble'' (1989 Single)
1. Born Annoying
2. Rumble




Strap It On


Album: ''Strap It On'' (1990)
1. Repetition
2. Rude
3. Bad Mood
4. Sinatra
5. FBLA
6. Blacktop
7. Distracted
8. Make Room
9. Murder



Album: ''Unsung / Your Head'' (1991 Single)
1. Unsung
2. Your Head




Meantime


Album: ''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




Unsung


Album: ''Unsung'' (1992 EP)
1. Unsung
2. FBLA [live]
3. FBLA [live]
4. Bad Mood [live]




In The Meantime / No Nicky No


Album: ''In The Meantime / No Nicky No'' (1992 Single)
1. In The Meantime
2. No Nicky No




Just Another Victim


Album: ''Just Another Victim'' (1993 EP)
1. Just Another Victim
2. Just Another Victim (T-Ray Devil Worship Mix)
3. Just Another Victim (T-Ray Dead And Stinking Mix)
4. Just Another Victim (T-Ray Heavy Metal Jazz Mix)
5. Just Another Victim (Instrumental)




Betty


Album: ''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




Wilma


Album: ''Wilma's Rainbow'' (1994 EP)
1. Wilma's Rainbow
2. Sam Hell
3. Sinatra (live)
4. FBLA II (live)
5. Tic (live)
6. Just Another Victim (live)
7. In The Meantime (live)




Aftertaste


Album: ''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


Album: ''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




Unsung: The Best of Helmet 1991-1997


Album: ''Unsung: The Best of Helmet 1991-1997'' (2004 Best of/Compilation)
1. Repetition
2. FBLA
3. Bad Mood
4. Sinatra
5. In the Meantime
6. Iron Head
7. Give It
8. Unsung
9. Better
10. Just Another Victim
11. Wilma's Rainbow
12. I Know
13. Milquetoast
14. Rollo
15. Overrated
16. Disagreeable
17. Pure
18. Renovation 2
19. Like I Care
20. Driving Nowhere
21. Exactly What You Wanted




Monochrome


Album: ''Monochrome'' (2006)
1. Swallowing Everything
2. Brand New
3. Bury Me
4. Monochrome
5. On Your Way Down
6. Money Shot
7. Gone
8. Almost Out of Sight
9. Howl
10. 410 and Goodbye




Gone


Album: ''Gone'' (2006 Single)
1. Gone



helmet

HELMET BIOGRAPHY

Helmet is an American alternative hardcore band formed in New York City by Page Hamilton (vocals/guitar) with Henry Bogdan (bass), Peter Mengede (guitar) and John Stanier (drums) in 1989. They were spotted by Tom Hazelmeyer and signed to his Amphetamine Reptile Records label, releasing their debut 7 inch single, Born Annoying, later that year. AmRep released their first album, Strap It On, in 1990.

Helmet was acclaimed as a thinking person's hardcore band. The members' appearance was a shock to many as they were all clean-cut - the antithesis of the heavy metal stereotype. Their music is characterized by repetitive, syncopated, staccato guitar riffs, often in odd time signatures, and almost always in a minor key with drop-D tuning. The guitar sound is heavily distorted and dissonant, with choruses that often involve guitar feedback waves. Page Hamilton has been hailed as one of the more innovative metal guitarists of the 1990s.

Before Hamilton had settled on a name for the group, Peter Mengede's then-girlfriend suggested the name "Helmut". Opting for the Anglicized spelling, Hamilton thought Helmet "sounded like a cool name for a band." Other names considered were "Cry Ruth" and "Poly Orchids".

The group rose to international stardom in 1992 after signing to Interscope Records. With the record industry hot to pick up burgeoning metal acts, Helmet was courted by a number of major labels. It is rumored that the members received in excess of $1 million at signing, along with an unprecedented amount of control over their work. Their first Interscope release, 1992's Meantime, was produced entirely by the band and was certified gold in the US by 1994. The album has sold over 1 million copies worldwide and remains Helmet's top-selling album. The group has been on the cutting edge of metal music, even helping pioneer "rap-metal" when they performed together with House of Pain for the soundtrack of the 1993 movie Judgment Night.

Helmet toured relentlessly and internal tensions rose high at times. In early 1993, guitarist Peter Mengede left on bad terms and was replaced by Rob Echeverria. After recording and touring in support of 1994's Betty, Echeverria left to join Biohazard; however, his departure was much more amicable than Mengede's. Now a three-piece, the band elected to push on and record 1997's Aftertaste without looking for another guitarist. After recording was complete, guitarist Chris Traynor (formerly of Orange 9MM) was recruited for the supporting tour. Unfortunately, the Aftertaste tour in 1997-98 would prove to be the band's last for a few years. Amid long-standing private disputes, the members decided very bitterly to call it quits. Asked about the break up, Hamilton replied, "9 years, 1600 shows, 5 albums and we found it hard to look at each other anymore."

In 2003, under the urging of Interscope Records, Hamilton re-formed Helmet, recruiting drummer John Tempesta (of Testament and White Zombie) and bringing back Chris Traynor. The trio released Size Matters in 2004 and toured with Frank Bello and then Jeremy Chatelain as touring bass-players.

In 2006 Tempesta left to join The Cult and Mike Jost replaced him as Helmet left Interscope and moved to Warcon Enterprises before releasing Monochrome. After the Warped Tour in support of the album, everyone but Hamilton left the band - seemingly on good terms. New members Kyle Stevenson (drums) and Jon Fuller (bass) have been announced as of September 2006 with a second guitarist to follow.

HELMET GENRES
Heavy Metal/Hard Rock

HELMET LYRICAL THEMES
Society, People, Humor, Life's Hardships

HELMET ORIGIN
United States of America (New York), formed in 1989

HELMET CURRENT RECORD LABEL
Warcon Enterprises

HELMET STATUS
Active

HELMET CURRENT LINE-UP
Page Hamilton (Vocals & Guitar)
Jimmy Thompson (Guitar)
Jon Fuller (Bass)
Kyle Stevenson (Drums)

HELMET PREVIOUS LINE-UP
Rob Echeverria - Guitar (ex-Biohazard)
Peter Mengede - Guitar (Handsome)
Henry Bogdan - Bass
John Stanier - Drums (Tomahawk (US), The Mark of Cain)
John Tempesta - Drums (White Zombie, ex-Testament, ex-Exodus, Black Label Society, Prong)
Frank Bello - Bass (Anthrax)
Chris Traynor - Guitar
Jeremy Chatelain - Bass
Mike Jost - Drums

 


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