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Long Beach, Los Angeles CA, United States (1953 – present)

Helios Creed (born November 3, 1953 in Long Beach, California) is an American , singer and bandleader. He first came to prominence in the mid 1970s with the San Francisco band Chrome, afterwards establishing a solo career.

After Chrome, Creed released his first solo album, X-Rated Fairy Tales, in 1985. He has since released at least one almost every year, some of the standouts being Superior Catholic Finger and The Last Laugh both in 1989, Boxing Clown in 1990 and his most accessible to date, Kiss To The Brain.

Members of Creed’s bands have included drummers Bill Roth, Paul Della Pella, Rey Washam, bassists Paul “Bean” Kirk and Mark Duran, and a mysterious woman named “Z” on keyboards. The music is usually mid-tempo to slow-tempo mixtures of , and . He has released records on Sub Pop, Amphetamine Reptile, Cleopatra and other indie labels.

The Butthole Surfers, have cited Helios Creed as a major influence. Creed even contributed guitar work to their album Independent Worm Saloon.

Creed released two albums under the name Dark Matter. The Dark Matter albums are much more and than his guitar heavy solo work. They have been compared to early electronic .

Creed uses a large number of effects on his voice and his guitar, including space echoes, phase shifters, flangers, guitar synthesizers, fuzz, and octave dividers.
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  • Charles_Heres

    THIS GUY really kicks ass. Really like that song, "Your Spaceman"

    last month

  • xn0153x

    listening to Galactic Octopi for the first time... wow, this is incredibly bizarre, deranged and good!

    last month

  • Dopethrone79

    Helios is amazing. Underrated beyond belief. 'The Last Laugh' is his best album, I reckon.

    March 2012

  • xn0153x

    shit is deranged... in a good way...

    February 2012

  • wizzxx

    CAPSLOCKCAUSEHELIOSISAMAZING

    February 2012

  • iamholgerczukay

    HELIOSCAPSLOCKS

    February 2012

  • iconan

    Helios Creed, the former guitarist of Chrome is the real "Cyberpunk" combines the nihilistic violence of punk with the resources of high technology and its environmental prowess in a universe populated by aliens, androids, and assorted monsters. Hallucinations violent, perverse ceremonies, dances metronome, searing distortion, vocals horror, raped tapes, abrasive harmonies and nervine, mantras cadaverous hell cadences. The acid is a nightmare really started. -.-.-.-. om hari om .....

    January 2012

  • Gibbey

    @iamholgerczukay: Yes, yes I care. That 'Helios Meat' thing has been bothering me for almost 20 years. I often used to think my copy was some crappy bootleg. Thanx for sharing that info... Lactating Purple & Kiss To The Brain are my favs (I own six)

    August 2011
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