{"id":5931,"date":"2014-05-19T10:14:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T08:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbar.cz\/?post_type=program&p=5931"},"modified":"2014-08-22T11:35:10","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T09:35:10","slug":"helmet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/program\/helmet\/","title":{"rendered":"Helmet \/ USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1989, Page Hamilton<\/b> co-founded the New York-based Helmet, fusing Zeppelinesque riffing with a vehement post-hardcore precision, augmented by dense chords and offbeat time signatures based in Hamilton\u2019s formal jazz training.\u00a0 The combination was that rarest of visionary creations\u2013it was successful in its own time.\u00a0 After their 1990 debut album Strap It On (on revered indie label Amphetamine Reptile), Helmet unleashed the major label Meantime (1992), a widely acclaimed album that earned a Grammy nomination, went gold, and launched a thousand other bands.\u00a0 Betty<\/b> followed in 1994, successfully branching out from the band\u2019s ferocious attack and into more varied musical waters. And with exactly this album the band decided to go on their 20 year anniversary, on which they also come to Prague. Be ready on the 11th<\/sup> of September<\/b> in the Lucerna Music Bar<\/b>!<\/p>\n

Hamilton went on to do soundtrack work for major Hollywood movies like Catwoman<\/i>, S.W.A.T.<\/i>, Titus<\/i>, and Saw<\/i>, among others, formed the band Gandhi, and, following in the footsteps of greats like Adrian Belew and Stevie Ray Vaughan, played lead guitar in David Bowie\u2019s band in 1999.\u00a0 In 2004 Hamilton restarted Helmet, releasing two acclaimed albums\u2013Size Matters in 2004, Monochrome in 2006\u2013and co-headlining the Warped Tour that year.<\/p>\n

Bands such as the Deftones, Rise Against, Pantera and Tool have all cited Helmet as an influence, and not just for Helmet\u2019s blistering, aggro approach but for the band\u2019s sheer musicality and brains. See, Helmet, among other things, is a work of art. Hamilton is a trained musician who happens to make heavy, brutal music, a guy who digs Bartok and Minor Threat.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1989, Page Hamilton co-founded the New York-based Helmet, fusing Zeppelinesque riffing with a vehement post-hardcore precision, augmented by dense chords and offbeat time signatures based in Hamilton\u2019s formal jazz training.\u00a0 The combination was that rarest of visionary creations\u2013it was successful in its own time.\u00a0 After their 1990 debut album Strap It On (on revered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[405],"tags":[413,412],"class_list":["post-5931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program","tag-metal","tag-rock"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5931"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12462,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5931\/revisions\/12462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicbar.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}