Album Rating: 4.5
Yeah, the debut definitely has the most post-hardcore and noise rock influences
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Noise rock and me don't always get along so that may be part of the problem
I'm actually listening to the Unsung Best of thingy, too, and it has 4 of 5 songs each album (Meantime, Iron Head, Give It, Unsung, and Better from this) up to Aftertaste but the tracklist at least goes in order of the albums, so that's nice
I dunno, I was vibing with it a little better jamming it in the car today
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Album Rating: 4.5
^ that Unsung comp was actually what got me into these guys when I was younger. I also remember it having the Just Another Victim collab with House of Pain, which gets me nostalgic whenever I hear it now
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I was not into that Another Victim song the first time it came on at all but mebbe it will come around like the rest seems to be
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Album Rating: 4.5
So cool that Page writes the sickest riffs and is a jazz head as well
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Album Rating: 4.5
I got a shirt fro a Helmet show in 2016 with this album cover on it, got to talk briefly with Page too. Truely a cool dude, and ofc he liked the shirt haha
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Album Rating: 5.0
concrete mixer grooves, best album ever
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Album Rating: 5.0
i also own two rare helmet shirts and i fkn love them #sickbrag
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Helmet's "Meantime" is a non-stop barrage of heavy, groovy metallic riffs propelled by John Stanier's barbaric drumming and the fierce vocals of Page Hamilton.
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Album Rating: 4.0
good first comment
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Album Rating: 4.0
the more I come back to it the more I see what yall are talking about
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Album Rating: 4.0
Guy sounds like Ozzy on a few songs
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The only song I had heard from this band was "Unsung" in the original Guitar Hero as a 14 year old. Revisiting this album now and wow, I never understood how influential they are.
Vulgar Display of Power definitely borrows from Strap It On. And they essentially were proto Meshuggah.
Of course, Pantera and Meshuggah did a lot of things differently from this band, but still pretty wild to hear the influences where I was not expecting to. Dumb that it took me this long considering that John Stanier is probably my favorite drummer, just from what he's done in Battles.
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Album Rating: 3.7
This is definitely an underrated album. I think hearing the rest of the album after catching "Unsung" on the radio threw a lot of people off back in the day.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Heard Unsung in GTA San Andreas when I was about 15 and loved it but never checked these guys proper until about five years ago, great band.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Unsung is probably the most radio-friendly track on this one so it's no surprise. And it's a top tier track too but it's doesn't have the monster rhythmic grooves of In The Meantime/Ironhead/Turned Out/FBLA II which this album is all about.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Album starts.
Skull gets fucked.
EARTH TONE SUITS YOU
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Album Rating: 4.0
Nice bump! I got this album back in the day after hearing Unsung but it wasn't until like 2013 or 14 that I bought Strap It On and Betty at a thrift store in town and started to truly appreciate this band. All of them are awesome in completely different ways to me. Wish I could have seen them live when they came through last but I was out of town at the time
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Album Rating: 4.0
I had tickets to see them live with Clutch but I didn't go  my friend backed out and come the night of the show I just had no drive to go to a concert
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this is sick
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