Helmet "monochrome" (2007 Album)

Helmet has traveled a long, strange path. Singer/guitarist Page Hamilton moved from Oregon to New York to study jazz guitar, but fell in with New York's avant-garde noise underground, working with Band of Susans and Glenn Branca before forming Helmet. Drummer John Stanier, bassist Henry Bogdan, and guitarist Peter Mengede rounded out the lineup for Strap It On and Meantime. Raw and dissonant, Strap It On was prime early '90s noise rock as typified by labels like Amphetamine Reptile and Touch and Go. The album lured major labels seeking the next Nirvana, and Helmet signed to Interscope for Meantime. With the massive "Unsung" and "In the Meantime," the album established Helmet's trademarks—Hamilton's barked vocals and atonal solos, Stanier and Bogdan's sharp rhythm section, and staccato, monolithic riffs.

HELMET return July 18 with MONOCHROME, a record that finds the band’s full circle return to the sonic template that cemented the band as one of the primary forefathers of the post-hardcore/punk genre. With the return of producer Wharton Tiers to the fold, a lineup shift, and a headlining slot on this summer’s Warped Tour, Helmet and founder and vocalist/guitarist Page Hamilton are in prime fighting shape.

For MONOCHROME, Hamilton enlisted collaborator Wharton Tiers to co-produce with the intention of a return to the organic sound the band is known for. Tiers recorded the band’s first two releases Strap It On (1991) and Meantime, (1992), the latter of which sold over a million copies and defined the brusque element of American’s underground rock scene.



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