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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 guitarist, 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 space rock, hard rock and acid rock. 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 electronic and ambient than his guitar heavy solo work. They have been compared to early electronic krautrock.
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.
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 space rock, hard rock and acid rock. 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 electronic and ambient than his guitar heavy solo work. They have been compared to early electronic krautrock.
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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nada_vs wrote:
why is his name in all caps now
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iconan wrote:
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 .....
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Gibbey wrote:
@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)
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iamholgerczukay wrote:
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.
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stress_mess wrote:
whats their spaciest album, (preferably instrumental)?
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ChaosUkDk wrote:
COME TO MEXICO!!
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iamholgerczukay wrote:
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."
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rosez wrote:
w...t.....f.....was dat
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iamholgerczukay wrote:
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.
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timudesu wrote:
swarthy!
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wppss wrote:
teen love
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bruno__________ wrote:
sources?
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eternalcowboy2 wrote:
he died
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bruno__________ wrote:
helios creed is more alive than you are.
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eternalcowboy2 wrote:
rip
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pathtoyirah wrote:
@toy-maker: Amphetamine Reptile used "NOISE" as like their slogan, so anything that was on the label sort of gets tossed in with "noise"/noise rock.
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Pinkbat wrote:
helios appeared to me in a dream
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wheatmistle wrote:
seen live 3 or 4 times in the early 90s. big clown always made me feel better
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pantopon_rose wrote:
In response to "bigsexyshaq"... as members of last FM ,it is fair to say we are passionate about our musick. each of us has a personal taste..why would anyone want to put down something that make us happy and brings excitement to our lives.I am very selective in my taste,but I would not put down something that obviously make others happy.
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toy-maker wrote:
why is this tagged as noise
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