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Scrap Metal CD $12.99 SHIPPING NOW!!!!!!!
The official worldwide release for the Helix "Scrap Metal" CD is January 23rd, 2026. This will be the 14th Helix release on Perris Records. Helix just finished touring with Nazareth supporting the "Bending The Rules" tour, Nazareth’s farewell tour in Canada. The "Scrap Metal" release features 5 unreleased tracks that retain the "classic" 80's Helix sound. The remaining 5 tracks are a collection of classic Helix songs from other releases such as "Old School", "half - Alive" & "B-Sides. The first single "Stuck In The 80s" features Sean Kelly (Gilby Clarke, Coney Hatch, Lee Aaron) on guitar. Most iconic 80's bands only tour on their back catalog NOT Helix, they continually record new music staying true to their 80s rock roots and maintaining a legendary status.
Tom Mathers President of Perris Records has had a long time relationship with the band Helix. Vocalist Brian Vollmer recorded lead vocals on all the tracks for Tom Mathers band Cherry St. "Buster Cherry" CD, along with Jason McMaster (Dangerous Toys) on backup vocals in 1999. Since then, Perris Records has worked with vocalist Brian Vollmer to take Helix to the next level to become the number one best seller in the label's history.
TRACK LIST: 1. STUCK IN THE 80’S (3:33) 2. FAST & FURIOUS (3:40) 3. PRETTY POISON (3:55) 4. HOT HEAVY & WILD (3:50) 5. MONEY (GOES WITH EVERYTHING) (3:27) 6. JAWS OF THE TIGER (3:39) 7. COMING BACK WITH BIGGER GUNS (3:43) 8. DANGER ZONE (4:25) 9. TIE ME DOWN (4:00) 10. CLOSER (3:48) 11. THE SAME ROOM (4:38) 12. THE PUSHER (4:49)
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Eat Sleep Rock - CD $9.99 On sale!
The album is a compilation of the bands favorite songs recorded since leaving Capitol/E.M.I. in 1990. The title track "Eat Sleep Rock" is previously unreleased. Also on this album is "The Story Of Helix", a rap with music behind it Brian wrote a couple of years ago to kick off the acoustic show. The album was mastered by Harry Hess of Harem Scarem. Harry is one of the best mastering guys in Canada right now. Daryl recorded the two new tracks at his Dawghouse Studios and Siegfried Meier, who has a Juno under his belt, did the mix. The artwork was executed by the One and Only Doctor Doerner. The back cover shot (which Brent manipulated in photo shop) was filmed by Victor Azziz Studios. Victor has done all our photography for years...he's the best.
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Old School - CD $12.99
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.