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30th anniversary vinyl release Expanded Version featuring 5 additional tracks – “Flushings,” “Thick,” “Pariah,” “Biscuits for Smut – Mutt Mix,” and “Biscuits for Smut – Pooch Mix” Individually numbered Limited to 3,000 units All packaging features new, original illustrations by Derek Hess Gatefold jacket Never-before-seen, alternative artwork Printed sleeves featuring personal note from Page Hamilton 2LP gray vinyl with Derek Hess illustration etched on side D Original album cover lithograph insert Pressed at Third Man Records, Detroit, MI

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.

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.