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 Unreleased demos released in 2019.

   The OLD SCHOOL album came about quite by accident.  In 2018 I was cleaning out the basement closet at Planet Helix.  What I found were various tapes I had almost forgotten about-2”, ¼”, and a huge box of cassette tapes.  I was going to throw out the 2” tapes until I got a frantic phone call from my old friend Greg Godovitz who realized the tapes’ value.  Greg made me take a serious look at what I had and I realized there was at least a whole album of unreleased material-and so the idea of “OLD SCHOOL” was born.  Incidentally, none of these tracks were ever released, although some of them might have been on our website as “rare tracks” in the past. 
   Three of the songs we were able to extract from 2” tape were  recorded for the Back for Another Taste sessions in 1989:  Games Mother Never Taught You, Tie Me Down, and Your Turn to Cry.  Paul Hackman is playing guitar and singing on these tracks.  To “extract” these recordings from the 2” tape we had to take the tapes to Beach Studios outside of Goderich, Ontario and get Siegfried Meier to thermally bake them.   Upon doing so, the tracks were immediately transferred to digital.  Later they were mixed by Siegfried;  some with minor overdubs by Daryl Gray.   One other track-“Cheers” was taken from a cassette tape and cleaned up by Siegfried as well. This song is a live recording off the floor of the studio.
   The other tracks on the album, If Tears Could Talk, Whiskey Bent & Hell Bound, Southern Comfort, Closer, Coming Back with Bigger Guns, and Hound Dog Howlin’ Blues  were re-recorded by “tracing” the songs from cassette tapes.  This was done because the songs were either unfinished or the cassettes were in bad shape.  This re-recording was done by Daryl Gray at Dawghawse Studios in St. Catherines.  Daryl was also the producer of this album.  Over the fall and spring of 2018/2019 Kaleb, Daryl, Fritz, Chris and myself all travelled to St. Catherines to add parts and advise Daryl on how we heard the songs.  By April 2019 we were ready to take the tracks to Siegfried to mix with the help of Daryl and myself.  The result is now before you.
   This album is dedicated to the memory of Paul Hackman, who played on 3 of these tracks and was a co-writer on 8 of the tracks.  He was/is a Canadian musical icon.

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The biggest heavy metal band in Canadian history! With a catalogue of music that spans a history of over 30 years. With 5 gold and 2 platinum albums under their belt and millions of records sold around the world, we see HELIX release their 13th studio album, not counting several live CDs and numerous compilation albums this year called “Bastard Of The Blues”. Written primarily with Sean Kelly, the CD is a continuation of 2008's "Vagabond Bones" and also contains two songs from the follow-up EP "Skin in the Game." It's now been six years since Kelly and Vollmer combined writing forces, and it shows. The songs are more focused and bigger sounding, the lyrics more concise and catchy. The song "Bastard of the Blues" describes Helix music to a "T"-the unholy co-mingling of blues and rock and roll to produce the bastard child heavy metal; at least the variety Helix has been kicking out for close to 40 years now. The track "Screaming at the Moon" also features Nick Walsh of Slic Toxic (a platinum selling Canadian metal band) on back-up vocals. Helix will be on a Europe tour including Spain, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark later this year. The last time Helix toured Europe was with KISS in 1983 and in 1988 with Ian Gillan. Helix also appeared in Sweden June of 2005 at the Sweden Rock Festival. Helix is already booked on 2015's MONSTERS OF ROCK BOAT CRUISE with some of the biggest and brightest metal/hard rock stars of the 80s'.