Helmet Betty IVC Edition 2LP Gray Etched Vinyl x/3000 + Hamilton & Hess SIGNED Litho x/1000

The vinyl album is an Interscope Vinyl Collective release meaning it is a deluxe version and they only made 3000 of them. The vinyl I’m selling is numbered 2319/3000. Then I also have a signed litho to add to it and there are only 1000 of those. The litho I’m selling is numbered 32/1000. Both are numbered and brand new, the litho didn’t come in plastic but the album is still in the plastic! I will ship the litho in a plastic cover though to keep it safe. More information on both the litho and the ivc album below.

Helmet Betty IVC Edition Signed Litho

Celebrating 30 years of Helmet's Betty, this limited edition, 12x12 lithograph features the alternative album cover artwork from Interscope Vinyl Collective's June release, Helmet - Betty IVC Edition. It is signed by Page Hamilton, Helmet's vocalist and lead guitarist, and artist Derek Hess, who created the original illustration featured on the alternative album cover. It is individually numbered and limited to 1,000 units.

Helmet Betty IVC Edition

This limited edition 2LP is the 30th anniversary vinyl release and the Expanded Version, which includes 5 additional tracks - Flushings, Thick, Pariah, Biscuits for Smut - Mutt Mix, and Biscuits for Smut - Pooch Mix. It features a gatefold jacket, alternative artwork, printed sleeves with a personal note from Page Hamilton, gray vinyl, a Derek Hess illustration etched on side D, and an original album cover lithograph. All packaging features new, original illustrations by Derek Hess. It was pressed at Third Man Records.

New York alt-metal gods Helmet scored a massive, if unlikely, hit with their pummeling 1992 sophomore album Meantime. But instead of just following a formula for their next album Betty, they veered way left, augmenting heavy rock with sounds borrowed from the blues, John Coltrane and avant-garde composer Glenn Branca. If things are going really well, do the opposite, frontman Page Hamilton said of Betty in 2015. Shoot yourself in the foot.

In addition to being Helmet's most experimental album, Rolling Stone wrote upon the album's release, Betty is ironically the group's most accessible. (In 2014, the album would appear on the outlet's 40 Best Records of 1994 list.

Classics like Wilma's Rainbow, Street Crab and Milquetoast retain the band's penchant for groove alongside Hamilton's melodic vocals. But Brazilian guitar and abstract jamming (their cover of the jazz standard Beautiful Love) meets bluesy metallic twang (Sam Hell) meets weirdo funk (The Silver Hawaiian) meets atypical meters and piles of noise. It all adds up to one of the most landmark metal albums ever recorded.

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