Helmet

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风格: #重金属　#另类金属
地区: United States of America 美国

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Helmet是一支1989年成立于美国纽约的另类金属乐队，乐队成员包括主唱兼吉他手Page Hamilton，贝斯手Henry Bogdan，主音吉他手Peter Mengede和鼓手and John Stanier。乐队19年间成员曾经更换多次，但也许我们并不容易发现这点，因为主唱始终是Hamilton。

Helmet至今一共发行过六张专辑和两张精选辑（其中1995年的精选辑选了乐队之前未公开发表的单曲）。他们被主流音乐界所接受并在商业上大获成功是在1992年他们第二张专辑《Meantime》发行后,单曲 "Unsung" 和 "In the Meantime"首次跻身公告牌榜单，在新专辑榜中甚至一路飙升至榜首。在相继发行两张专辑后，Helmet于1998年解散，但在2004年重组。在今年晚些时候，他们发行了重组后的第一张专辑"Size Matters" ,这也是他们在 Interscope Records旗下发行的最后一张唱片。2006年7月18日，Helmet在毫无征兆的情况下转投Warcon Records并发行最新专辑"Monochrome"。

Helmet强悍野蛮的音乐风格，一部分源于重金属和硬摇滚，另一部则来源于乐队本身简单、直接的作风。Helmet琐碎的和弦、周而复始的扭曲催眠感和奄奄一息的垂死的节拍合成了他们独特的音乐，没有一丝一毫的圆滑和做作。Helmet不是那种可以让你幸福一生，终身受用的乐队，他们一直热衷于制造一种野蛮的音乐，而且为之感到无比的自豪。

Like many influential bands, Helmet was born out of an unusual set of influences. Oregon-born guitarist and founder Page Hamilton had actually moved to New York City to study jazz, but found inspiration in the late 80s through post-punk acts Sonic Youth, Killing Joke, and Big Black, and envisioned a group that combined then-unusual tunings (particularly dropped-D) with uneven and jazz-like time signatures and harmonies. The result was Helmet, the East Coasts answer to Seattles then-underground sensation Soundgarden. Hamilton recruited bassist Henry Bogdan from Oregon, along with Australian guitarist Peter Mengede and Florida drummer John Stanier for the groups first incarnation. Helmets independent label debut EP, Strap It On, showcased the groups raw power — both instrumentally and in Hamiltons growling vocals — through tracks like the mocking Sinatra and rocking Bad Mood. Signed to the Interscope label soon thereafter, the same lineup released its breakthrough 1992 CD Meantime. MTV aired three videos by Helmet, then the only band close to the Seattle grunge sound on the East Coast, in Give It, In the Meantime, and the distorted, stop-and-start showcase Unsung. Hamilton, Bogdan, and Stanier collaborated with Irish rap group House of Pain on Just Another Victim, for the 1993 film Judgment Night, after Mengede left the band. The popular soundtrack (with its unorthodox mix of rappers and alternative bands like Ice-T and Slayer, Sir Mix-a-Lot and Mudhoney) created even more of a demand for Helmets next CD. Replacing Mengede with guitarist Rob Echeverria on 1994s Betty, Hamilton crafted an album even more versatile — and at times even heavier — than Meantime. The song Milquetoast appeared on the soundtrack to the hit film The Crow; Staniers unrelenting drumming drove tracks like I Know, and Hamiltons jazz background showed on the cover of Dizzy Gillespies Beautiful Love. Yet Betty proved to be a critical success but a commercial failure, its versatility relegating it to the cutout bins. Echeverria left Helmet in the mid-90s to join Biohazard, and the band bought time to refocus by releasing the Born Annoying collection of B-sides in 1995. Hamilton played all the guitar parts for 1997s Aftertaste — but his vocals sounded like his heart just wasnt in a group in which he couldnt keep a rhythm guitarist, and the album proved a disappointment. After touring with Orange 9mms Chris Traynor on guitar and much deliberation, Helmet disbanded in 1999. But the Helmet influence was heard throughout rock, whether by Hamiltons involvement with industrial groups (Nine Inch Nails) or indirectly through metal acts (System of a Down), and even the atonal distortion of rap-rock hybrids such as Korn and Limp Bizkit.

Helmet returned in 2004 when Hamilton recruited Traynor and a new rhythm section consisting of drummer John Tempesta (Rob Zombie, Testament) and bassist Frank Bello (Anthrax). Signed to Interscope, the group released Size Matters in October. They switched to Warcon/Fontana for 2006s Monochrome.

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