HELMET "Betty" 20th Anniversary Show (Playing The Album From Start To Finish)
March 13, 2015
8:30 PM
HELMET ANNOUNCE 2015
BETTY
U.S. TOUR
2-SET SHOWS TO FEATURE THE 1994 MASTERPIECE PLAYED TOP TO
BOTTOM
AND A CAREERING SPANNING SECOND SET!
On the heels of their 40 date European tour,
Helmet
are pleased to announce a tour of the United States in
February 2015. The band will be playing their critically lauded
1994
Betty
album from start to finish,
followed by a second set spanning the entirety of Helmet’s
catalog.
Billed as the “thinking man’s metal band,” Helmet provided an
alternative to the grunge bands of the time
with their clean cut aesthetic and raw, unrelenting, pr
opulsive sound.
Betty
came on the trails of the band’s
first mainstream success, 1992’s
Meantime
. The cut “Milquetoast” became a music video staple on MTV
and the album was critically praised for its genre-defying e
xploration into jazz, blues and improvisation. As
music writer Darrell Bassett wrote upon the album’s re
lease, “The thump and grind of
Betty
fully reflects
the seemingly meaningless forces that shape our hi-tech e
xistences, the inner pressure that waxes and wanes
as life’s pace explodes exponentially and its occasion
al moments of grace.
Betty
is a surprising album, one
which grows as it unfolds its subtleties.” A prophetic sta
tement if ever there was one.
“Helmet made rhythmically complex steely-riffed alterna
-metal that punished your body from weird
angles...” –
Rolling Stone
“Helmet have carved – or, rather, bludgeoned – a niche as prima
ry exponents of pummeling, monolithic,
heavy guitar-rock. The sheer size and power of their soun
d dwarfs all but the most extreme of hardcore
bands, but there’s a
precision
to Helmet’s sound that sets them apart.” –
Time Off Magazine
(1994
Betty
album review)
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