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May 21, 1997

X Games Soundtrack Due

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In the Nineties, these New Yorkers answered Seattle's soul-baring grunge with jazz-informed riff rock and hooky sludge. On their first disc in seven years, the manicured riffs remain, but the sludge is so overbearing that anyone born during the Eighties will wonder what once made them special.

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Quintessential noise-rockers from lower Manhattan, Helmet is a rhythm juggernaut. Guitars, bass, and drums play interconnecting lines and shift tempos with machinelike precision. The quartet's tight, taut sound bridges the gap between thrash metal and the art-damaged vocabulary of New York City guitar innovators such as Glenn Branca and the Band of Susans, both of whom employed Helmet founding mem...

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