HELMET will proceed its “Betty” Thirtieth-anniversary tour — presently taking place in Europe — with U.S. dates in February/March 2025. The setlist will characteristic the “Betty” album along with favorites from the band’s catalog.
A particular BLABBERMOUTH.NET presale will start on Wednesday, December 4 at 2:00 p.m. ET and finish on Thursday, December 5 at 10:00 p.m. native time. When prompted, kind within the presale code “BBMHELMET25” utilizing the ticketing hyperlinks beneath to entry tickets earlier than most people. Normal on-sale will probably be Friday, December 6 at 10 a.m. native time.
HELMET can also be providing a VIP bundle that features soundcheck attendance, meet-and-greet / signing session with the band plus unique merchandise together with a tote bag, “Betty” card inventory of the “Betty” album cowl with tour dates, laminate and lanyard.
Tour dates:
Feb. 19 – Fort Price, TX @ Tulips FTW (purchase tickets)
Feb. 22 – Houston, TX @ Scout Bar (purchase tickets)
Feb. 23 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk (purchase tickets)
Feb. 25 – Mesa, AZ @ Nile Theater (purchase tickets)
Feb. 27 – Pomona, CA @ The Glass Home (purchase tickets)
Feb. 28 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent Theater (purchase tickets)
March 01 – Oakland, CA @ Crybaby (purchase tickets)
March 02 – Roseville, CA @ Goldfield Buying and selling Publish (purchase tickets)
March 04 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre (purchase tickets)
March 05 – Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile (purchase tickets)
March 06 – Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Membership (purchase tickets)
March 08 – Denver, CO @ The Oriental Theater (purchase tickets)
March 09 – Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck (purchase tickets)
March 10 – Minneapolis, MN @ Varsity Theater (purchase tickets)
March 11 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theatre (purchase tickets)
March 12 – Chicago, IL @ Cobra Lounge (purchase tickets)
March 14 – Columbus, OH @ Skully’s (purchase tickets)
March 15 – Mechanicsburg, PA @ Lovedraft’s Brewing Co (purchase tickets)
March 16 – Ferndale, MI @ The Magic Bag (purchase tickets)
March 17 – Toronto, ON @ Lee’s Palace (purchase tickets)
March 18 – Montreal, QC @ Théâtre Fairmount (purchase tickets)
March 20 – Boston, MA @ The Paradise Rock Membership (purchase tickets)
March 21 – Brooklyn, NY @ Music Corridor of Williamsburg (purchase tickets)
March 22 – Philadelphia, PA @ Underground Arts (purchase tickets)
March 23 – Washington, DC @ Union Stage (purchase tickets)
This previous August, HELMET canceled its beforehand introduced fall 2024 U.S. tour with LOCAL H as a result of “a mixture of vital monetary issues and lower-than-expected ticket gross sales.”
HELMET‘s newest album, “Left”, was launched in November 2023 by way of earMUSIC.
After the critically acclaimed “Lifeless To The World” in 2016, HELMET is again with their signature mix of heavy, riff-loaded rock and evocative lyrics which have resonated with followers worldwide for over three many years. “Time on your vacation serial homicide / How time slips away”, resonate the opening strains of “Vacation”. HELMET take no prisoners of their direct and unfiltered expression, leaving listeners with a long-lasting affect and a way of urgency to look at the world round them.
“Left” sees HELMET — comprising frontman Web page Hamilton, drummer Kyle Stevenson, guitarist Dan Beeman and bassist Dave Case — carve out a musical panorama that’s taut, muscular, and direct. Hamilton‘s lead guitar strains really feel like every part from downed energy strains arcing to exploding resistors in shortwave radios. On “Left”, each snare crack hits like gunfire, each solo seemingly a manifestation of rabies-induced psychosis.
Guided by Hamilton alongside co-producers Jim Kaufman and Mark Renk, and mastered by Howie Weinberg, the 11 songs on the brand new album are leaner and meaner of their execution than earlier aural throwdowns. “Left” is powered by unbridled dedication, a renewed sense of objective and a need to create extra new dialects inside the musical language Hamilton invented by way of his use of drop-D tuning.
HELMET‘s first official dwell album, “Stay And Uncommon”, was launched in November 2021 by way of earMUSIC. It was made obtainable on heavyweight black vinyl in addition to a CD digipak version and digital.
Though HELMET disbanded in 1997, Hamilton revived the band in 2004, and the group has continued to tour and report.
“Lifeless To The World” was launched in October 2016 by way of earMUSIC. The hassle was produced by Hamilton and combined by Jay Baumgardner.
In 2021, HELMET launched a canopy of GANG OF FOUR‘s 1981 music “Into The Ditch”. The monitor was recorded for a tribute album to GANG OF FOUR‘s guitarist Andy Gill, “The Drawback Of Leisure: A Celebration Of Andy Gill And Gang Of 4”.
Having lower his tooth enjoying with avant-garde guitar icon Glenn Branca and indie stalwarts BAND OF SUSANS, Hamilton launched HELMET in 1989, and the band launched its debut album, “Strap It On”, on the unbiased Amphetamine Reptile label the next yr. HELMET quickly turned the topic of an unprecedented major-label bidding struggle, finally signing with Interscope and releasing “Meantime” in June 1992.
Even whereas the band was absent from the highlight, HELMET continued to train appreciable affect on a number of generations of bands. Their songs have been coated by the likes of CHEVELLE, DEFTONES, FAITH NO MORE, PIG DESTROYER and SOULFLY, and the band impressed a 2016 HELMET tribute album titled “Meantime Redux”. HELMET has additionally been cited as a key affect on such bands as GODSMACK, KORN, MARILYN MANSON, MASTODON, PANTERA, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, SEPULTURA, SLIPKNOT, STAIND, SYSTEM OF A DOWN and TOOL.
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