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Hamilton may have just turned in Helmet’s most political album yet. Above a patented mix of drop-tuned riffs and hard-edged rhythmic displacement, the alt-metal icon sounds off on anything from cyclical patterns of U.S. gun violence (“Gun Fluf ”) he’s generally avoided standing on a soapbox throughout Helmet’s nearly 35-year career,’s treatises still speak to a broader trend within his hefty songbook.
