Blog: nyctaper

[Photos courtesy of Dana (distortion) Yavin.  See her excellent work HERE .] I can remember the first time I heard Helmet's disc, ' Meantime ', which has since become the standard bearer for alternative metal.  Aggressive songs that held riffs hitting like a sledge hammer, frontman Page Hamilton (trained as a jazz guitarist and sole original member) threw the musical rulebook out the window and led a troupe of expert musicians who obviously had serious chops.  Having grown up on a steady diet of hard rock and heavy metal, I was [...]