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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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  • osadi667

    fucking our brains

    14 May 9:45am Reply

  • Amondroid

    The guy is a LEGEND!!!!

    27 Dec 2012 Reply

  • michaelJL93

    this guy is amesome! he should be more known!

    5 Dec 2012 Reply

  • Charles_Heres

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

    20 Apr 2012 Reply

  • xn0153x

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

    2 Apr 2012 Reply

  • Dopethrone79

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

    28 Mar 2012 Reply

  • xn0153x

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

    24 Feb 2012 Reply

  • wizzxx

    CAPSLOCKCAUSEHELIOSISAMAZING

    20 Feb 2012 Reply

  • iamholgerczukay

    HELIOSCAPSLOCKS

    14 Feb 2012 Reply

  • 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 .....

    8 Jan 2012 Reply

  • 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)

    2 Aug 2011 Reply

  • iamholgerczukay

    As far as I know, there isn't an instrumental Helios Creed album, and spaciest album would probably be... all of them. In different ways to some extent, to be cliche, I like the early stuff best... more spacey punk. The 90s got a little heavier/more industrial sounding, but it was Cosmic Assault that got me hooked. You could always do chronological, that's usually the best approach.

    27 May 2011 Reply

  • stress_mess

    whats their spaciest album, (preferably instrumental)?

    13 May 2011 Reply

  • iamholgerczukay

    In case anyone cares, the answer to my question I asked a while back: "It was a record company fuck up. The album name is Kiss To The Brain and they credited us as Helios Meat. We thought it was funny so we left it like that. Helios Meat. On the cover it actually says Helios Creed, but on the side, it says Helios Meat. Then some radio stations put labels on it and called it Helios Meat and it got filed that way. It’s pretty funny."

    10 Oct 2010 Reply

  • rosez

    w...t.....f.....was dat

    19 Jul 2010 Reply

  • iamholgerczukay

    Anyone know the back story as to why Kiss To The Brain's spine (of the CD at least) is labeled Helios Meat? Any back story? Or just pointless screwing with me? Hooray for outer space.

    18 Jul 2010 Reply

  • timudesu

    swarthy!

    28 Feb 2010 Reply

  • wppss

    teen love

    16 Feb 2010 Reply

  • bruno__________

    sources?

    26 Jan 2010 Reply

  • eternalcowboy2

    he died

    24 Jan 2010 Reply
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