30TH TIME’S THE CHARM
Mar 12, 2020
4 minutes
WORDS BY MATT DORIA.
Whether it be for their unique collision of jazz guitar stylings and blistering metal, their pioneering use of Drop D tuning or the simple fact that most of their tracks go as hard today as they did three decades ago, there’s a good chance you’re either a Helmet fan (you are reading an article about them, after all), or you would be if you gave one of their records a spin.
Since 1989, frontman (and noted ESP Horizon fanboy) Page Hamilton has been steering the ship in one of the world’s most revered alt-metal acts, delivering consistently crushing onslaughts of floor-shaking riffs and fist-pumping beats – and though their lineup has never been all too sturdy, Helmet have always
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