Formed in New York City in 1989, Helmet came out of the noise-rock underground, debuting on the Minneapolis punk label Amphetamine Reptile with the cold-eyed assault of 1990’s Strap It On, fusing orchestrated noise, metal precision, tricky time signatures, avalanche riffs, and singer-guitarist Page Hamilton’s mosh pit drill-sergeant bark.
It all came together with glorious brute force on In the Meantime, from their 1992 album Meantime, one of the least likely, most extreme MTV breakthroughs of the post-Nirvana alt-rock feeding frenzy.
The Aftertaste Tour in 1997 turned out to be the band’s last for nearly a decade. Amid long-standing private disputes, band members decided to call it quits, with Helmet’s original final performance occurring in Italy on 10 December 1997.
They reformed in 2004 and, as of 2023, had released eight studio albums and two compilation albums.
Page Hamilton
Guitar, vocals Peter Mengede
Guitar Henry Bogdan
Bass John Stanier
Drums Rob Echeverria
Guitar Chris Traynor
Guitar, vocals John Tempesta
Drums Kyle Stevenson
Drums Dan Beeman
Guitar, vocals
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