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Helmet pushed at the boundaries of their sound with Betty, perhaps too much for their audience's liking -- the album stiffed in comparison to Meantime. As a result, the band returned to straightforward Helmet territory with Aftertaste, restoring grinding guitars and pummeling rhythms to prominence. Theoretically, this approach should have made Aftertaste a more immediate, visceral record, but it is simply numbing. Without the invention of Betty or the gut-level force of Meantime, Helmet is simply a bland alternative metal band, lacking riffs, hooks, and purpose and relying only on volume. It's a shocking and disheartening turn of events for one of the more intriguing metal bands of the '90s.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Greg Gordon, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - D. Sardy, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - TERRY DATE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - SAM HOFSTEDT, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Page Hamilton, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Helmet, Producer, MainArtist - John Stanier, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Henry Bogdan, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1997 Interscope Records
Greg Gordon, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - D. Sardy, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - TERRY DATE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - SAM HOFSTEDT, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Page Hamilton, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Helmet, Producer, MainArtist - John Stanier, Drums, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Henry Bogdan, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1997 Interscope Records
Greg Gordon, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - D. Sardy, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - TERRY DATE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - SAM HOFSTEDT, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Page Hamilton, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Helmet, Producer, MainArtist - John Stanier, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Henry Bogdan, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Greg Gordon, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - D. Sardy, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - TERRY DATE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - SAM HOFSTEDT, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Page Hamilton, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Helmet, Producer, MainArtist - John Stanier, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Henry Bogdan, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1997 Interscope Records
Greg Gordon, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - D. Sardy, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - TERRY DATE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - SAM HOFSTEDT, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Page Hamilton, Guitar, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Helmet, Producer, MainArtist - John Stanier, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Henry Bogdan, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Greg Gordon, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - D. Sardy, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - TERRY DATE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - SAM HOFSTEDT, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Helmet, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Greg Gordon, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - D. Sardy, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - TERRY DATE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - SAM HOFSTEDT, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Helmet, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Greg Gordon, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - D. Sardy, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - TERRY DATE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - SAM HOFSTEDT, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Helmet, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Greg Gordon, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - D. Sardy, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - TERRY DATE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - SAM HOFSTEDT, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Helmet, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Greg Gordon, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - D. Sardy, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - TERRY DATE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - SAM HOFSTEDT, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Helmet, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Greg Gordon, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - D. Sardy, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - TERRY DATE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - SAM HOFSTEDT, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Helmet, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Greg Gordon, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - D. Sardy, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - TERRY DATE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - SAM HOFSTEDT, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Helmet, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - John Stanier, ComposerLyricist - Henry Bogdan, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Greg Gordon, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - D. Sardy, Producer, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - TERRY DATE, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - SAM HOFSTEDT, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Helmet, Producer, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
Helmet pushed at the boundaries of their sound with Betty, perhaps too much for their audience's liking -- the album stiffed in comparison to Meantime. As a result, the band returned to straightforward Helmet territory with Aftertaste, restoring grinding guitars and pummeling rhythms to prominence. Theoretically, this approach should have made Aftertaste a more immediate, visceral record, but it is simply numbing. Without the invention of Betty or the gut-level force of Meantime, Helmet is simply a bland alternative metal band, lacking riffs, hooks, and purpose and relying only on volume. It's a shocking and disheartening turn of events for one of the more intriguing metal bands of the '90s.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:40:43
- Main artists: Helmet
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Interscope
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 1997 Interscope Records ℗ 1997 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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