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GG 254CD
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"Helios Creed is a founding member of legendary US avant-garde space rock band Chrome. Chrome was founded in San Francisco in 1975. Their sound wasn't easy to label -- being ahead of their time, Helios Creed and Damon Edge created music that featured heavy elements of feedback and distortion. They experimented in mixing synthesized noise with rock instrumentation, therefore they are now seen as part of the post-punk movement (even when punk was still in full flow at that time). Their breakthrough came in 1977 with their second album Alien Soundtracks. The band largely abandoned conventional rock compositions, instead employing cut-up and collage techniques and heavily processed sound to create a kind of sci-fi punk style. Creed says he invented his trademark guitar sound trying to replicate the sound he heard in his head, while listening to Black Sabbath on LSD on headphones when he was a teenager. He is currently working both on his solo career, as well as the re-activated Chrome. On The Dark Side Of The Sun was originally released in 2003 on Staticwhitesound Records. For this re-issue, we have remastered the whole album and added some live bonus tracks."
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"CD reissue of alien guitarist Helios Creed's second solo album originally released on Amphetamine Reptile Records in 1989 and long out of print. Space is the place for the Chrome guitarist and the Last Laugh is sci fi punk psych lift off."
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"Vinyl reissue of alien guitarist Helios Creed's second solo album. The sci fi drenched Chrome shredder delivered this one in 1989 and it has been out of print on LP for years. Pressed on lyseric orange vinyl."
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LR 351LP
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After Chrome finally wound down in 1983, underground guitar-god Helios Creed decided to strike out on his own, releasing his solo debut, X-Rated Fairy Tales, in 1985, followed by Superior Catholic Finger in 1989. While Fairy Tales has a more industrial feel, the sound on Finger is a stripped-down, hardcore, suicide ride to oblivion. The trippy tape loops and random sound effects of Chrome are largely gone, replaced by scathing, lightning-fast guitar licks and Creed's sinister vocals. 180 gram HQ vinyl LP + bonus CD of the album.
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LR 350LP
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2013 release. Proto-industrial guitar-hero Helios Creed first came to prominence in 1978 with Chrome, a brilliant acid-punk band whose use of primitive electronics, heavily distorted guitar, moog, apocalyptic tape loops, and copious amounts of acid, was unlike anything that had ever come before. From 1978-1982 Chrome released one brilliant LP after another, before finally splitting up in 1983. Creed's highly anticipated first solo LP, X-Rated Fairy Tales, basically picked up where Chrome left off, only this time with a more driving industrial sound. 180 gram HQ vinyl LP + bonus CD of the album.
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