Meantime (album)

Occupation

• Page Hamilton - guitar, vocals
• Peter Mengede - Guitar
• Henry Bogdan - Bass
• John Stanier - drums

Mean Time is the second studio album by the metal and rock band Helmet and their major label debut. It was released in June 1992 on Interscope Records.

Music style

Meantime combined elements of contemporary Metals with those from the noise rock and post-hardcore into an independent, partly mechanically uniformly sounding mix which was considered by some music journalists and record companies as " the next big thing ". However, lacking most of the tracks, which were equipped with staccato riffing of Page Hamilton, accessibility, so it mostly managed the videos Unsung and In the Meantime only the rock -friendly music television. Nevertheless, the album is considered to be influential, such as for post-metal.

Formation

After a kind of bidding competition had developed among the major labels and the award went to Interscope, Mean Time was recorded from December 1991 to February 1992 in New York City, where the band produced according to the booklet itself. Only the piece In the Meantime was recorded with Steve Albini in Chicago, whereas the remaining pieces were recorded by Wharton Tiers. Was mixed the album by Andy Wallace. 2012 led the band for the album 's 20th anniversary at full length.

Reception

The album reached # 68 on the Billboard 200 Michael Rensen wrote in the magazine Rock Hard, with the album are as Helmet, " where they belong: the very top. Her short, concise, mostly rather minimalistic songs have achieved an enormous atmospheric density, sound solely afterHelmet and moreover have yet powerful hit qualities. " He forgave eight out of ten. The readers of the magazine chose the album Visions 2005 ranked 117 of their leaderboard.

Title list

All tracks written by Page Hamilton.