HELIX – Old School (2019) *EXCLUSIVE*

Canadian hard rock legends HELIX are releasing their new album “Old School” via Perris Records next June 22, 2019, and you have it here in exclusive today.
“Old School” is HELIX’s 15th full length studio album, comprised of songs written from 1981-1989 but never released. Produced by longtime bass player Daryl Gray and mastered by Harry Hess of Harem Scarem, these are must have classic HELIX.

The “Old School” album came about quite by accident. In 2018 frontman Brian Vollmer was cleaning out the basement closet at Planet Helix. What he found were various tapes he had almost forgotten about.
Vollmer said; “I was going to throw out the 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.

None of these tracks were ever released. Three of the songs they 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’. The late Helix guitarist Paul Hackman is playing guitar and singing on these tracks.
Vollmer continues: “To “extract” these recordings from the 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”

‘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 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.
“Old School” is indeed old-school, classic Helix hard rock with an ’80s vibe.
HIGHLY Recommended

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01 – Coming Back With Bigger Guns
02 – Whiskey Bent And Hellbound
03 – If Tears Could Talk
04 – Your Turn To Cry
05 – Tie Me Down
06 – Closer To You
07 – Games Mother Never Taught You
08 – Southern Comfort
09 – Hound Dog Howlin’ Blues
10 – Cheers

Brian Vollmer – lead vocals, cowbell (1974–present)
Greg “Fritz” Hinz – drums, backing vocals
Daryl Gray – bass, keyboards, piano, backing vocals
Kaleb “Duckman” Duck – guitar
Chris Julke – guitar
Paul Hackman – guitar
Sam Reid – piano

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