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| Monochrome | 
 enlarge | Artist: Helmet
Label: Warcon
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 94803
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 11
UPC: 850175001117
EAN: 0850175001117
ASIN: B000G6BNRM
Release Date: July 18, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | Swallowing Everything | | • | Brand New | | • | Bury Me | | • | Monochrome | | • | On Your Way Down | | • | Money Shot | | • | Gone | | • | Almost Out of Sight | | • | Howl | | • | 410 | | • | Goodbye |
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 Interesting Album... September 5, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This album does not sound like typical helmet at all, in fact it almost sounds like an entirely different band. I totally understand why A.Miller II trashed this album, since he is a fan of the original helmet stuff. I think Page has moved on since meantime and betty. Meantime was airtight and very exciting for it's time, but every year I listen to it, it sounds softer and has less steam in my opinion (it might be because it is an old recording...but). It was seriously amazing for it's time and resonated for over a decade but it has lost steam and I think Page has done the right thing in going in a new direction. I love the new "whining" sound of the vocals, it sounds more real, diverse and it's more in control. The growling vocals of meantime are almost funny to me now and hard to take seriously, I have a sneaking suspicion Page feels the same way since he does this a few times here and there in the new album in a way that almost sounds like he is mocking himself, which is funny.
Actually there are two reasons I give this four instead of five stars: first of all, I think page should have just started another band, because this doesn't really sound like helmet and I think it's almost like false advertising (upsetting to hardcore fans of the old stuff) and second of all I think a couple of the songs were not good enough to be on this album. Gone, 410, howl, and unlisted could have been excluded in my opinion and I think it's odd that Page put "gone" up as the main song of this album...Clearly "Money Shot" is the best. This is a good album with a few kinks, and the major drawback is that it doesn't really sound like helmet very much. I mean, it doesn't sound like typical helmet and many of the original members are gone. This is Page's perogative however and he has a right to use the helmet name. He is an amazing writer and musician and even a really interesting thinker and I am interested to see what, if anything, will come after this...
 The "Garage Rock" Helmet album July 19, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This Helmet album ROCKS, and this is from someone who hated Size Matters. Recorded in three weeks, it has some rough spots, but the insane noisy solos and awesome riffs more than make up for it. This is better than 99% of the heavy rock that is currently out there. To me, each Helmet CD has a unique "feel" to it as a whole, and to me, this is the garage rockin CD! It has the older elements of what makes Helmet great, and adds newer elements as well that long time fans like me can notice and appreciate.
 Don't believe the reviews!!! July 25, 2006
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
Being along time fan, since Strap it on, I just want to say, this is not the Helmet we all know and love. This is cheesy metal and almost as bad as the previous album. They should have stayed down after the release of Aftertaste. So, why is it a bad album? well, the guitar playing as usual is superb. The new drummer, although not as tight as Stanier, sounds ok. What lets it down, as with the previous album, is the vocals. This is just painful and embarrising! Page seems to be trying to sing in the style which is trendy at the the time. Size matters vocaly sounded like Blink 182. This one vocaly is whiney as hell. And Page is also snarling now!!. Vocals were never his strong point, but they suited the tight industrial precsision of the music. Now his voice is just painful. Anyone who calls this progression is insane. Give it up, Helmet! Either that or carry on as an instrumental band ala Don Cabbalero/(spelling?)Battles.
New Helmet....Old Helmet July 26, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The new one from Page and a revamped lineup finds Helmet revisiting some of the noise of Strap it On and Meantime. Mainly, the guitar solos are what stand out as the main link to those former great albums.
This one though, stands on its own as keeping the molody of Size Matters and the aggression of Meantime. Page brings more melody than he used to have but still finds a way to keep intensity for the most part. The new drummer should definately be commended for his contributions to the new-found ferocity.
The main fault of this album is some of the the vocals and lyrics, although Page was never really known for being great in that area. Lyrically, I think Meantime and Aftertaste were Page's high point. Besides that, I haven't seen much......then again, lyrics are not why one becomes interested in Helmet. I'm giving this one a 4.5. A step below Strap It On, Meantime, Betty and Aftertaste. Above Size Matters.
solid offering August 23, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
i am glad to have this album in my collection.
i bought my first helmet cd in 1993, meantime. since then i've seen them 3 times in concert and picked up everything i could find.
is it a loss to no longer have stanier on the drums? sure. he can never be replaced... but jost is a pretty damned good drummer in his own right, and fits better than tempesta.
as others have said this album has a more raw sound reminiscent of earlier recordings. i like it better than the production on either aftertaste or size matters.
what always surprises me about these types of reviews is that listeners seem to think that bands stay frozen in time, forever. people change, folks, and as long as bands are made up of people then the music will always change too. it's not something to be happy, or sad about.. it just IS.
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