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Aftertaste | 
| Artist: Helmet
Label: Fontana Interscope
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 20572
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 606949007324
EAN: 0606949007324
ASIN: B000001Y2F
Release Date: March 18, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Pure | | • | Renovation | | • | Exactly What You Wanted | | • | Like I Care | | • | Driving Nowhere | | • | Birth Defect | | • | Broadcast Emotion | | • | It's Easy to Get Bored | | • | Diet Aftertaste | | • | Harmless | | • | (High) Visibility | | • | Insatiable | | • | Crisis King |
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Album Description
Japanese edition of their new album featuring the single 'Exactly What You Wanted' and the rare 'Complete'as a bonus track. 14 tracks total.
Album Details
Japanese Release featuring an Exclusive Bonus Track: "Complete".
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| Customer Reviews: Read 28 more reviews...
 Unjustly dismissed February 5, 2006
Grant McKee (Chicago, IL United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Most long-time Helmet fans (and I count myself as one), when this album was released in 1997 pointed to what they saw as flaws - a concious effort to make the album accessible, a (slight) tempering of the ferocity the band displayed up to and including "Meantime," and the simple fact that they didn't remake the same album over and over. Guess what? "Aftertaste" might be their most consistently enjoyable disc.
While I pretty much enjoy any and all of Helmet's albums (okay, "Size Matters" isn't that great...), I can ALWAYS throw "Aftertaste" in and get into it. The songs hit with the melodic sensabilities of a band like Foo Fighters without losing the crunch Helmet was known for. I think this set of songs stands out more than their breakthrough "Meantime" or their older material, generally favored by fans that want to put forth the image that they weren't late to the Helmet party. The drums on this disc are particulary noteworthy, with John Stanier turning in his always-reliable hard-hitting drumming, this time augmented with better production. The songs (all of which, I think, were written by Page Hamilton) are better than anything he's written before or since, minus a handful of tracks. The lyrics are better than anything before or since - take lines like "I'd rather be insulted by you than someone I respect" for instance.
I know this review will irk some long-time fans, but it's time to hang up your elitist attitude and admit that just because a band breaks through to the mainstream, it doesn't mean their best work is behind them.
Excellent. All five stars deserved September 3, 2004
G. C JONES (Somerville, MA United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the greatest straightforward metal album of the mid '90s. Page Hamilton has an amazing ability to come up with truly heavy, catchy riffs. He keeps a good variety in the songs as well, and the soft parts come out right. This album is excellent for playing along with and is required material for any serious metalhead's collection. All thirteen songs are good.
The most underrated and underappreciated album ever!! January 3, 2004
jk (rochester, ny)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Helmet is a perfect example of why we have all these weak, insignificant pop bands and the mass sheep of our consumers continue to buy those albums instead of listening to real geniune amazing bands like helmet. these guys were so ahead of there time its insane. this is one of the best albums ever made and so are there other ones. they continued to push the envelope and expand there sound while keeping true to there hardcore roots. if it wasnt for helmet there probably wouldnt be the hardcore bands that are out there today so buy this ablum and listen to one of the best albums you will ever hear.
An excellent swansong August 16, 2001
the dredger (NYC, New York United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
as a fan and long time listener of intelligent nyc hardcore such as the swans or sonic youth and more "experimental" composers such as glenn branca, i have followed hamilton's career with great interest. if you have listened to branca's work (hamilton was a member of one of the manifestations of his guitar orchestras, i believe) and band of susans and have some knowledge of where he is coming from aesthetically, hamilton proves himself yet again as a great song writer. i disagree strongly with the reviewer who said hamilton has sacrificed emotion in his lyrics for a bombastic vocabulary. there is emotion in every song, a decidedly more jaded and misanthropic set of lyrics than the previous alblums. hamilton's intelligence shows through in his brevity, yet well contructed phrasing. helmet comes from a much different place than rage against the machine, korn, pantera etc. the fact that he is an excellent jazz guitarist puts him structually above these bands and his minimalism shouldn't be confused with simplicity....in short, this is a great alblum and anyone who enjoyed the last three, or hardcore that breaks the mono-syllabic barrier, should buy it.
 FOCUSED April 14, 2000
Hugh Jass (Neptune)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's a shame that Helmet isn't popular. They can crush your bones with heavy metal anger like no other. Strap it on and Meantime were both raw and based on rocking out instead of melody crooning. On Betty, Page Hamilton experimented with singing instead of attempting to rip is vocal chords in half by screaming into the microphone. Aftertaste skillfully combines these two elements presenting both melodic and heavy sides of the band. The opening tracks, "Pure", "Renovation", and "Exactly What You Wanted" pound strong riffs into your skull, but are not too brainless or misled. Efforts such as "Driving Nowhere" and "It's so Easy to Get Bored" calm down the listener by subjecting melodies into one's head that will stay there all day. My one and only complaint about the album is that the lryics hold no emotion. Page tries too hard to impress with long words and well-structured sentences. Overall though, Aftertaste is Helmet's most focused sounding album.
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