Advantages: Best drum sound EVER, wonderful groove Disadvantages: Obscure lyrics
If there was ever an album that defied expectation, this is it.
From the strangely serene, catalogue pose cover to the enlistment of rap guru T-Ray as a producer, all the signs point to a band trying to shed their college-boy, hardcore image. What could have been an unholy alliance between the polar opposites of rap and metal emerged as a career defining move for one of rock's pioneering and innovative bands. The first thing that strikes you about ... ...the most beautifully crisp, powerful drums of any rock album ever made. Helmet have managed to maintain the uncompromising grind of 'Meantime' but have sharpened their sound thanks to Page Hamilton's ever-more avant garde lyrics, a hint of more melody and those pristine drums driving everything along. Witness 'Biscuits For Smut', a song the Chilli Peppers could have penned if they had any balls, the sliding bass of Henry Bogdan making it sound like ...
navidson 11.02.2009
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