—- TORONTO, CANADA (December 12, 2025) — Perris Records announces the release of HELIX’s new full length album “SCRAP METAL” on January 23rd, 2026. The digital singles release dates are December 12th, 2025 for “Stuck In The 80’s” and December 19th, 2025 for “Fast & Furious”. 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. Brian Vollmer talks about how SCRAP METAL came together, “SCRAP METAL started out as an afterthought and morphed into a full fledged album. During the 80’s HELIX had written several very good songs that were never ever released. I decided to finish them, and also add a song I had written with Sean Kelly entitled STUCK IN THE 80’S, which ironically, seemed to sum up the project. I chose Aaron Murray and HELIX bassist Daryl Gray to produce, as they had both worked on previous HELIX projects. Aaron is on the cutting edge of where production is going, being the protégé of Danny Broadbeck (Delores O’Reardon) who was the protégé of Jack Richardson (The Guess Who/Alice Cooper/Bob Segar) so it was a fantastic lineage of producers. As for Daryl, he’s not only the music director for HELIX, but he produced OLD SCHOOL, which came out just as COVID hit. Sean Kelly, who I’ve written several albums with over the years, also became heavily involved in the recording of this disc, as did Helix guitar players Mark Chichkan and Chritopher Julke. We even had former HELIX guitarists Kaleb Duck and Brent “The Doctor” Doerner to come in and play on a couple of tracks. As the songs started to take shape, we realized we had something very special here. STUCK IN THE 80’S indeed!” Order CDsPERRIS RECORDS: https://perrisrecords.com/helix-bandAmazon USA pre-order : https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0G17Q53X6/?tag=imwan-20WOWHD worldwide Free Shipping: https://www.wowhd.co.uk/search?q=PERRIS+RECORDSThousands of worldwide CD stores: https://recordstoreday.comGERMANY: https://www.prideandjoy.deJAPAN: https://diskunion.netJAPAN: https://aor-paradise.com/JAPAN: https://tower.com/searchUK: http://www.replayrecords.co.ukSPAIN: https://sunrecords.es/BRAZIL: https://animalrecords.com.br Track Listing1. Stuck in the 80’s (3:33) KELLY / VOLLMER 2. Fast & Furious (3:40) GRAY / HACKMAN / VOLLMER 3. Pretty Poison (3:55) HACKMAN / VOLLMER / KELLY 4. Hot Heavy & Wild (3:50) GRAY / HACKMAN / VOLLMER / DOENER / HINZ 5. Money (Goes with Everything) (3:27) HACKMAN / VOLLMER 6. Jaws of the Tiger (3:39) HACKMAN / VOLLMER 7. Coming Back with Bigger Gus (3:43) HACKMAN / VOLLMER 8. Danger Zone (4:25) HACKMAN / VOLLMER 9. Tie Me Down (4:00) VANDENBURG / VOLLMER 10. Closer (3:48) HACKMAN / VOLLMER 11. The Same Room (4:38) VOLLMER 12. The Pusher (4:49) VOLLMER Production DetailsExecutive producer: Brian VollmerProduced by Daryl Gray & Aaron Murray: STUCK IN THE 80’S/FAST & FURIOUS/PRETTY POISON/HOT HEAVY & WILD/MONEY (GOES WITH EVERYTHING) @Aaron’s Place/London, Ontario.JAWS OF THE TIGER – Produced by Daryl Gray/Brian Vollmer/Paul Hackman:, River Studios/Fort Erie, Ontario.COMING BACK WITH BIGGER GUNS/TIE ME DOWN/CLOSER -Produced by Daryl Gray: @The Dawghouse Studios/St. CatherinesTHE SAME ROOM/DANGER ZONE-Produced by Danny BroadbeckTHE PUSHER-Produced by Daryl Gray & Danny BroadbeckPhotos: Victor Azziz/Brian VollmerMastered by Harry Hess CD Artwork & Stuck In The 80’s video by Jay Panaseiko @ Studio73 Digital Media Band MembersLead vocals: Brian VollmerProgrammed drums: Aaron MurrayDrums: Greg “Fritz” Hinz/Earl ConstantGuitars: Kaleb Duck/Paul Hackman/Brent Doerner/Sean Kelly/Christopher Julke/Mark Chichkan/Daryl Gray About Perris RecordsPerris Records has been in business over 31 years distributing and promoting the label’s hard rock bands such as Helix, Stephen Pearcy, L.A. Guns, Babylon A.D., Bang Tango, Enuff Z’Nuff, Heaven’s Edge, Roxx Gang, Dirty Looks to name a few. Perris Records is distributed worldwide by Select-O-Hits (The legendary Sam Phillips family of Sun Records-Elvis, Johnny Cash), AMAZON worldwide, ALLIANCE (AEC) distribution & WOWHD.COM. WOWHD.COM ships to Australia, Denmark, Germany, Canada, France, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, The Netherlands & United Kingdom (UK). WOWHD Direct Link at Perris Records (Special links showing all Perris titles available at WOWHD in their selected country): https://perrisrecords.com/wowhd Links to Website and All Socialshttp://www.planethelix.comfacebook.com/helixrockbandhttps://www.instagram.com/officialhelixband/https://x.com/helixthebandwww.facebook.com/PerrisRecords/www.perrisrecords.com |
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