Helmet - Betty [Black Friday 2024]

Black Friday Record Store Day title, available to buy in-store only on 29/11/2024, with remaining copies available online from 8am on 30/11/2024. Click notify me to receive an email as soon as it becomes available.

Now considered a cult classic, Betty was originally released on June 21, 1994, on Interscope Records. Helmet and T-Ray produced all of the album’s songs, except for “Milquetoast,” which was produced by Butch Vig. Rolling Stone would go on to hail it as “one of Helmet’s most beloved albums, as well as a landmark of mid-Nineties metal” and note, “Tracks like ‘Wilma’s Rainbow,’ ‘I Know’ and ‘Milquetoast’ (which had appeared earlier that year, as ‘Milktoast,’ on the soundtrack to the Brandon Lee film The Crow) continued the band’s riff-as-power-tool aesthetic, while also expanding on it…exploring jazz (‘Beautiful Love’), blues (‘Sam Hell’) and oddball funk (‘The Silver Hawaiian’).”