Helms Alee

Though three years passed since Helms Alee’s second album and this year's excellent Sleepwalking Sailors, the Washington state trio wasn’t exactly taking it easy in the interim. Last year alone, they released three splits, highlighted by their side…

Helms Alee and Young Widows have a lot to celebrate they both have great new albums to play and so they are going to tour together to do it.  Helms Alee's - Sleepwalking Sailors came out in February and YW…

We are delighted to announce that Helms Alee is now part of the fantastic roster of bands for N. American booking over at Ground Control Touring. So the good news is we will have some new Helms Alee tour…

This is a sound I haven’t heard for a long time. I think we used to call it Alternative, whatever that meant. Hearing this takes me to when I first heard the Pumpkins or Jane's Addiction, the giants of alternative…

Thanks to L.A. Record for posting all these great Helms Alee photos by Debi Del Grande from the sold out Los Angeles show at EL Rey on March 10th with Russian Circles. 

SEE THE FULL SETS HERE AT L.A.…

When Hydra Head Records announced in fall 2012 that they were no longer planning to release any new music, Seattle metal/post-hardcore trio Helms Alee suddenly found themselves without a label home.

The band — comprising guitarist/vocalist Ben…

Rock A Rolla Magazine's new issue #48 is out now and has a feature on Helms Alee. Order a copy HERE or pick one up at news stand in the UK.

“Pleasure Center” works like a rollercoaster: At the start of Sleepwalking Sailors,the third album by Washington state trio Helms Alee, Ben Verellen’s electric guitar picks up speed by slowing down, its single note swelling into a carbuncle of…

There are legions of bands — successful ones — that exist to preserve the metal status quo. They are descendants of a mighty legacy, heirs to a spiky, blood-drenched throne. In short, they are metal bands that aren’t…