{"id":23039,"date":"2023-08-28T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=23039"},"modified":"2023-08-26T16:58:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T16:58:59","slug":"helmet-return-with-new-album-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=23039","title":{"rendered":"HELMET RETURN WITH NEW ALBUM &#8220;LEFT&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/artwork-440x440-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/artwork-440x440-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23040\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/artwork-440x440-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/artwork-440x440-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/artwork-440x440-1-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/artwork-440x440-1.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hamburg, August 23rd, 2023\u00a0\u2013\u00a0earMUSIC\u00a0is thrilled to announce the long-awaited release of\u00a0&#8220;LEFT&#8221;, the upcoming album by the iconic rock band\u00a0Helmet. After the critically acclaimed &#8220;Dead to the World&#8221; in 2016,\u00a0Helmet\u00a0is back with their signature blend of heavy, riff-loaded rock and evocative lyrics that have resonated with fans worldwide for over three decades. &#8220;Time for your holiday serial murder \/ How time slips away&#8221;, resonate the opening lines of the hard-hitting new single\u00a0&#8220;Holiday&#8221;, available today.\u00a0Helmet\u00a0take no prisoners in their direct and unfiltered expression, leaving listeners with a lasting impact and a sense of urgency to examine the world around them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pre Order <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/45PjU6l\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/45PjU6l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/duffpress.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=2e8abf58842c9dbf295c1e805&amp;id=41ff289cf0&amp;e=71d8d4f580\">LISTEN TO THE NEW SINGLE &#8220;HOLIDAY&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;LEFT&#8221;&nbsp;sees&nbsp;Helmet&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;comprising frontman&nbsp;Page Hamilton, drummer&nbsp;Kyle Stevenson, guitarist&nbsp;Dan Beeman, and bassist&nbsp;Dave Case&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;carve out a musical landscape that is taut, muscular, and direct.&nbsp;Hamilton\u2019s lead guitar lines feel like everything from&nbsp;downed power lines arcing to exploding resistors in shortwave radios. On&nbsp;&#8220;LEFT&#8221;&nbsp;every snare crack hits like gunfire, every solo seemingly a manifestation of rabies-induced psychosis. Guided by Hamilton alongside co-producers&nbsp;Jim Kaufman&nbsp;and&nbsp;Mark Renk,&nbsp;and mastered by&nbsp;Howie Weinberg, the 11 songs on the new album are leaner and meaner in their execution than previous aural throwdowns.&nbsp;&#8220;LEFT&#8221;&nbsp;is powered by unbridled determination, a renewed sense of purpose and a desire to create more new dialects within the musical language Hamilton invented via his use of drop-D tuning. Fans can pre-order the album now which is set to be released on&nbsp;November 10th&nbsp;as CD-Digisleeve, 1LP Black Vinyl and Limited 1LP Transparent Vinyl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/duffpress.us3.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=2e8abf58842c9dbf295c1e805&amp;id=47e05252a7&amp;e=71d8d4f580\">ACCESS THE NEW ALBUM &#8220;LEFT&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About&nbsp;Helmet:<br>In the late \u201880s,&nbsp;Helmet\u2019s&nbsp;straightforward hard rock stirred the American underground. The band\u2019s 1989 debut&nbsp;&#8220;Strap It On&#8221; was bold enough to detonate the minds of hardcore lifers, noise-rock aficionados&nbsp;and&nbsp;metalheads whiplashed by the density of Hamilton\u2019s&nbsp;riffing.&nbsp;Helmet&nbsp;proceeded to take on all comers with their Gold-certified album &#8220;Meantime&#8221;. The original lineup would excel over the course of 10 years, recording two&nbsp;more albums, 1994\u2019s &#8220;Betty&#8221; and 1997\u2019s &#8220;Aftertaste&#8221; before adjourning in 1998. By that time, Hamilton\u2019s aesthetic had rubbed off on many bands from bona fide metal units and the then-burgeoning nu-metal scene. After a few years away, Hamilton reformed the band in 2004 with all new members, recording such reputation-fortifying releases as &#8220;Size Matters&#8221; (2004), &#8220;Monochrome&#8221; (2006), &#8220;Seeing Eye Dog&#8221; (2010) and &#8220;Dead To The World&#8221; (2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamburg, August 23rd, 2023\u00a0\u2013\u00a0earMUSIC\u00a0is thrilled to announce the long-awaited release of\u00a0&#8220;LEFT&#8221;, the upcoming album by the iconic rock band\u00a0Helmet. After the critically acclaimed &#8220;Dead to the World&#8221; in 2016,\u00a0Helmet\u00a0is back with their signature blend of heavy, riff-loaded rock and evocative lyrics that have resonated with fans worldwide for over three decades. &#8220;Time for your holiday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2964,8326],"class_list":["post-23039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-duff-press","tag-helmet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23042,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23039\/revisions\/23042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}