Helms Alee

As an editor for this website and quite fanatic music listener and reviewer, I get to listen to a lot of new releases on an almost daily basis. The more new music I get to listen to, the more I…

Helms Alee "Sleepwalking Sailors" album is now streaming in full a week before its release on February 11th via Sargent House. Go to Pitchfork Advance to hear it HERE.

Helms Alee will be touring in support of…

In September of 2012, Helms Alee’s label at the time, Hydra Head Records, announced that as of the following December it would cease to put out any new records. While still maintaining the label’s 20 years worth of…

Simply put, Helms Alee are awesome. Throughout the course of their seven year existence, they have managed to embody a sound that is as melodic, heavy, and creative. Sleepwalking Sailors is the band’s third and arguably best effort, and their…

Helms Alee's debut for Sargent House is a complete monster of an album, full of melody and math. They strike a delicate balance of outrageous fuzz and clean post-rock that allow for an enormous pallet of sounds. Every…

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Ben Verellen manufactures gear under the family name, so you know that he best make sure his own tone is the sickest. Those heads, with names like "Meat Smoke" and "Skyhammer", come with him on the road and into…

Seattle trio Helms Alee have spent the past six years writing and recording abrasively beautiful and avant-garde sounds that have been labeled with phrases such as “experimental metal” and “art rock,” although they would seem far more…

Helms Alee are pleased to announce some new tour dates with Sargent House  label mates Russian Circles starting on March 5, 2014 also with KEN mode on the bill. In addition to that tour Helms Alee will play…