Hands down: Helmet are back with a very good album, Monochrome

For the follow up to Size Matters, Helmet left Interscope Records and got signed to Warcon, enlisting new drummer Mike Jost, bass player Jeremy Chatelain plus Strap It On and Meantime soundman Wharton Tiers to co-produce the record. Even going as far as recording on the same tape machine they used on those records. The result is of course something new with a little bit of old, but always good.
Listening to all the Helmet LPs, it's plain to see how far the band's influence goes, from Deftones, Chevelle, Norma Jean, to even Killswitch Engage. Guitar master Page Hamilton and the band have even been around since way, way before Korn and similars. These guys have made modern metal way before modern metal got started. This is a good reason to give this album a chance, listen to Monochrome and you won't be surely disappointed.
Unfortunately Monochrome registered a first-week tally of almost 5,500 copies landing on N° 159 of the Billboard chart - a step down from the nearly 10,000 units that its predecessor, Size Matters, opened with back in October 2004.