“In The Meantime” by Helmet

"In the Meantime" is the title track of Helmet's second album Meantime in all but name, a 1992 slab of alternative metal that Page Hamilton wrote alone. He sings and plays guitar next to Peter Mengede, with Henry Bogdan on bass and John Stanier on drums, and the band produced it themselves.

Steve Albini recorded it; Andy Wallace then remixed it, and Wallace's methods, triggered samples among them and a cleaner, glossier finish, got under Albini's skin. It stuck with him: negotiating to record Nirvana's In Utero, Albini had a clause put in his contract barring Wallace, the man who mixed Nevermind, from remixing the album. The song itself picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance, and the video shoots the band largely in monochrome, cut against a small child playing with toys and women at work in factories.

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