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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.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PurePage Hamilton | Helmet | Play | 03:32 | 8 MB | 0 MB |
| 2 | RenovationPage Hamilton | Helmet | Play | 02:55 | 6 MB | 0 MB |
| 3 | Exactly What You WantedPage Hamilton | Helmet | Play | 02:36 | 5 MB | 0 MB |
| 4 | Like I CarePage Hamilton | Helmet | Play | 03:19 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 5 | Driving NowherePage Hamilton | Helmet | Play | 04:19 | 9 MB | 0 MB |
| 6 | Birth DefectPage Hamilton | Helmet | Play | 02:31 | 5 MB | 0 MB |
| 7 | Broadcast EmotionPage Hamilton | Helmet | Play | 02:44 | 6 MB | 0 MB |
| 8 | It's Easy to Get BoredPage Hamilton | Helmet | Play | 03:26 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 9 | Diet AftertastePage Hamilton | Helmet | Play | 03:16 | 7 MB | 0 MB |
| 10 | HarmlessPage Hamilton | Helmet | Play | 02:58 | 6 MB | 0 MB |
| 11 | (High) VisibilityPage Hamilton | Helmet | Play | 02:41 | 6 MB | 0 MB |
| 12 | Insatiable | Helmet | Play | 02:34 | 5 MB | 0 MB |
| 13 | Crisis KingPage Hamilton | Helmet | Play | 03:54 | 8 MB | 0 MB |
| 40 mins | 93 MB | |||||
| 0 mins | 0 MB | |||||
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| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Henry Bogdan | Bass |
| 2 | Greg Gordon | Engineer |
| 3 | Page Hamilton | Composer, Guitar, Vocals |
| 4 | Helmet | Primary Artist, Producer |
| 5 | Steve Revitte | Assistant Engineer |
| 6 | Dave Sardy | Engineer, Producer |
| 7 | Jane Scarpantoni | Guest Artist |
| 8 | John Stanier | Drums |
| 9 | Chris Traynor | Guitar |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |