Music Reviews of Hardcore, Crust, Post-Hardcore, Metalcore

Music Reviews of Hardcore, Crust, Post-Hardcore, Metalcore

Helmet — Monochrome Buy it at Amazon

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Thank you Helmet. Coffee-stains aside, this is an album that deserves pure recognition as the savior to the entire post-hardcore scene. Page Hamilton and Helmet have once again turned in a fantastic album of guitar-centric grunge and hard-edged rock ‘n’ roll. Signatures aside though, “Monochrome” could easily stand alone even if Helmet didn’t already have “Meantime” and “Betty” to prove how important they were. Don’t believe me? Listen to “Brand New” which is hands down pure “Betty” as it gets and makes the band of the same name look downright silly and tired. It might be all black and white to these guys, but they color the scene with important elements of everything heavy that’s been done in indie rock for the past decade. Also apparently they dumped Interscope Records (not the other way around) to do this record, and enlisted producer Wharton Tiers who did work on “Meantime” and “Strap It On”.

- J-Sin

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