We are King of Spades Records. We are offering these translucent red vinyl versions of Feel It Like A Scientist, Chrome's highly praised 2014 comeback double album. (See reviews below). These are collectable 1st pressing editions! All are brand new and unopened. They feature a full color double sided insert with photographs (see pics) which, along with the cover, were designed by artist Monet Clark.  
Please see our other offerings from King of Spades Records including: signed by Helios Creed colored vinyl copies of last year's Half Machine from the Sun, Angel of the Clouds CDs, other solo albums by Helios Creed, T-shirts and more! 
Feel It Like A Scientist is the next level of exploration for seminal Avant-Punk Psychedelic outfit, Chrome. The band was originated by drummer & vocalist Damon Edge in 1975. Edge took inspiration from influences as divergent as proto-Punk pioneers, such as The Stooges, to sound art experimentation, like the work of John Cage and Alan Kaprow. When heavy Rock guitarist and vocalist Helios Creed joined the band in 1976, Chrome found their footing. Their signature sound emerged within their commercial and artistic breakthrough album Alien Soundtracks, released in 1977. Originally commissioned as a soundtrack for the Mitchell Brother’s strip club, the album was comprised of new tracks composed and performed by Edge and Creed and some with Gary Spain, as well previously recorded sessions with member John Lambdin. The later two left the band soon after Creed joined, leaving Edge and Creed at the helm splicing and editing the material. Alien Soundtracks and their next album, 1979’s Half Machine Lip Moves, remain underground classics.   
Helios Creed and Damon Edge developed a unique methodology within Chrome, bringing art into sound, splicing in a Sci-Fi collage of sound bites, combining searing rock with noise, weirdness, pile driver rhythms (including scrap metal percussion), heavy rhythm-guitar riffs, effects laden vocals and Psychedelic guitar leads, and mind-bending audio manipulations. They came up during a fertile era of experimentation for music in San Francisco, from the break of Punk to the advent of Art Rock and Industrial musical projects. Chrome was groundbreaking and their de/re--construction of Rock ‘n Roll created a sound that defied categorization. They influenced a wide range of musical genres as well as generations of bands exploding the possibilities of what Punk, Psychedelic, New Wave and Industrial Rock could sound like. The prolific duo produced several more albums and EPs through 1983, utilizing French Rock vocalist Fabienne Shine on a several tracks and adding John and Hilary Stench to their rhythm section for their last 3 releases. 
In the mid 80’s Chrome continued as a Damon Edge solo project. He released numerous albums while stationed in France continuing to work with Fabienne Shine and other musicians. Helios Creed also further developed his sound as a solo artist and released albums prolifically. He toured stateside and in Europe for years, sharing stages with many of the great indie acts of the late 80’s and 90’s. At first Creed was based in the creative milieu of post Punk San Francisco of the late 80’s; he relocated to Seattle for a brief brush with the burgeoning Grunge scene of the northwest, but found his sonic home within the NOISE Rock scene based out of the mid-west through the 90’s. Damon Edge returned to the states and in 1995 he contacted Helios Creed and suggested they again collaborate. However his untimely passing the same year cut short their plans, until the release of Angel of the Clouds, posthumous collaboration where Creed finished the tracks composed by Edge prior to his death. The album was released in Europe in 2001 and has just been rereleased on the band’s label in the states.  
After Edge’s passing Helios Creed took back the helm of Chrome; enter madman of Farflung fame Tommy Grenas on keys and heavy, San Francisco based drummer Aleph Omega a year later. Both were long time appreciators of Chrome and both are still part of the current line up. Under the direction of Helios Creed they began to work within the sometimes spontaneous, always dynamic methods that he and Damon Edge had developed years before.  In 2007 Lux Vibratus joined the group on bass, forming a foursome, with Creed, Grenas and Omega. This line up toured and also cut a Helios Creed solo album, 2011’s Galactic Octopi.  
Recording sessions for Feel It Like A Scientist commenced in 2012, joined by guitarist Lou Minatti and later conceptual artist and vocalist Anne Dromeda (aka Monet Clark). While making the album, previously unreleased lost tracks from Creed’s and Edge’s classic period of ’79-’80 had surfaced, and Creed and company launched a campaign with fans to raise the funds to buy back, mix, and release the works. The resultant Half Machine from the Sun, the Lost Tracks from ’79-’80 was well received by press and fans alike and garnered a resurgence of interest in Chrome’s cultural significance. Infused with the avidity of that sonic trip down memory lane and with one final switch in the line up to Steve ‘Trash’ Fishman on bass, the final recording sessions for Feel It Like A Scientist were completed late in 2013. In Helios Creed’s own words from 2014 interviews: “I have the best band put together, finally…”  “The album is coming out…its how I’ve always wanted Chrome to sound. Its what I always imagined Chrome could be post Damon, ya know. I’ve been able to take it to the next level.”  
“I’m always using sounds, notes, riffs...that maybe if I were a straight band I’d be thinking that wasn’t perfect, but then in Chrome we work with it and make it the piece. I call it being Chromed, its takes a seasoned musician awhile to get Chromed once they come in to work with me. I have to break down their illusions of what they think Rock is.”  
“We didn’t always set up like a band and record like a band, we might have been recording a vacuum cleaner or a lawn mower and today I work with my band the same way. We haven’t really changed our approach…”  
“The thing about Chrome is we're always searching for unique and interesting tones…I wanted to make my guitar not sound like a guitar all of the time”.  "I think a good Psychedelic album is worth its weight in gold…” 
—Helios Creed (quotes from a 2014 interview) 

REVIEWS FOR ‘FEEL IT LIKE A SCIENTIST’

USA’s, Acoustic Music

“One of their absolute best…maybe even #1.”

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USA's, The Big Take Over 

"Helios Creed has delivered an album under the Chrome moniker that…rises as a high point in his entire career as a solo artist".

 

USA's, Stereo Embers

"Feel It Like A Scientist' may well be Creed’s most vital work yet.”

“Their [Damon Edge and Helios Creed’s] meeting in 1976 is the origin spark that’s still igniting near forty years later, making that fateful encounter just about as big a big bang moment as ‘rock’ music has known…combined with the band as it now stands – keyboard whizbang madman Tommy Grenas, protean drummer Aleph Omega, Lux Vibratus routinely moving mountains on bass, Lou Minatti (nee Keith Thompson) on second guitars and Anne Dromeda (or Monet Clark as her mom calls her) adding vocals – there seems an additional drive, resulting in a careeningness beyond the sum of its parts…”

“Helios Creed doesn’t sound like a musician reborn here, he sounds like a musician being constantly born. A sense of constant emergence marks his career, an unceasing process that expresses its definition most exquisitely and, indeed, definitively, on this record.” --Dave Cantrell 

USA’s, Consequence of Sound live stream debut

“Chrome demonstrate that even after nearly 40 years and countless lineup changes, their hunger and curiosity remain just as savage as when the project first began”. 

UK's, WIRE Magazine 2 page spread with photo (hard copy only)

"Now into their fourth decade, Chrome are still chewing up rock 'n roll's past to regurgitate a dystopian future"

UK's, Record Collector 

"Chrome never fades...This latest installment in the Chrome saga is remarkable...He’s replicated the spirit and feel of Chrome’s groundbreaking period....This Chrome hasn’t lost its shine". 

Italy’s, Rock Lab

“One of the best works of the year.”

UK's,The Quietus

“…It's possibly the most welcome and fitting comeback album from a veteran avant garde artist since Celtic Frost's tumultuous Monotheist hit the racks in 2006…’Feel It Like A Scientist’...is upon us, and blow us down if it isn't a tonic for the troops…[It] manages to pull off the neat trick of mainlining the bizarre Chrome magick of yore without coming across as some Pixies-esque pastiche of the band's greatest era. Decadent and deranged, yet possessed of a sleek, unearthly allure and refined for a still more confusing new age…”Jimmy Martin 

 

Argentina’s The 13th Magazine  (hard copy is posted online pages 119-120)

“All of the band’s power, is taken to a contemporary matrix.”

Germany's, Slam Magazine (hard copy only)

“…To all the lovers of psychedelic music, here you can listen to a master of the genre. It shows how great Helios Creed still is…You'll get a full acid trip by Helios Creed and his bandmates...But there is more then long guitar riff distortions, much more music which sounds like actually songs. With the quality of the work, you get to understand why it took 2 years to make.”

USA's, Relix Magazine 

“Nearly 40 years after joining seminal experimental-rock outfit Chrome, Helios Creed is still finding new ways to weird out your eardrums. ‘Feel It Like a Scientist’ …crams a decade’s worth of sprawling chaos into an hour-long avant-garde spectacle…Creed remains a potent noisemaker, leading a nimble band through their freak-show paces…”

France's, No Compro Blogspot

“As an aperitif, heralding this new Chrome album...the excellent “Half Machine from the Sun” [was released]...a superb compilation of “forgotten” songs from CHROME dated 1979 and 1980...After the revelation of this little masterpiece, the bar was placed...quite high. But the greatest satisfaction is that “Feel It Like A Scientist” succeeds handily the challenge...In short its a real gem, that I recommend you rush.” —Hans Cany 

USA's, The Vinyl District, Graded on a Curve

“Given Creed’s extensive Chrome output what’s achieved on 'Feel it Like a Scientist' shouldn’t be especially surprising. However, the increased profile inspired by that highly impressive recovery project of last year [The Lost Chrome Tracks] has carried over and…raised the expectations somewhat; happily opener “Nephilims (Help Me!)” wastes no time in quashing disappointment…The cut immediately establishes the acid-punk model that’s made Chrome such an enduringly vaunted entity. It also features modulated vocals figuring prominently across the ensuing 15 tracks, these enhancements likely to remind many of similar treatments by the Butthole Surfers, notably from around their ’88 LP Hairway to Steven…But of course the Texas crew, like various others in ‘80s u-ground rock, was to some extent actually absorbing the impact of Chrome’s prime work…The first 20 years of Chrome securely belonged to its founder, but the last two decades of the group’s tale have been defined by Helios Creed; Feel it Like a Scientist emphasizes this circumstance with aplomb”. A-

France's, Le Canal Auditif 

"A very successful album" 

USA’s, Magnet Magazine (hard copy only)

“ …‘Feel It Like A Scientist’ represents Helios Creed and Co. crafting fresh material in new-millenium mode. So, what does the guy who has influenced space rock, psychedelia, shoe gaze and sonic WTFism for the past four decades bring to the present tense? Plenty, as it turns out. Creed and the freshly buffed Chrome still churn out Stooges smacked raw power mixed with dark wave synth drone, informed by an unbridled sense of possibility and a willingness to allow anything and everything to happen…few of Creed's peers pursue songs and sounds this blazingly epic and weirdly experimental. It's all the in the title; like science's best acolytes, Chrome will always operate most effectively at the intersection of the soul’s passion and the brain's desire to explore the mapless unknown.” —Brian Baker

Denmark’s, Devilution

“Unrivaled high standard throughout this experimental sci-punk masterpiece [is] definitely among the best albums I’ve heard in years.”

Germany's, PowerMetal.de 

"This album has real class!...'Feel It Like A Scientist' shows once again how psychedelic rock sounded in its original form, why many industrial rock bands rely on this force, and why KILLING JOKE without the indirect influence of Californians might not exist."

Portland, OR, USA’s, experimental music blog Foreign Accents: 

"In a way, because they have strained so aggressively for such profound, bizarre symbolism, with little thought given to aesthetic pleasantness or even to having a clear-cut ideological “point”, Chrome are one of the most “punk” bands to ever exist. Moreover, their experiments with technology certainly prefigured the transition of sampling into mainstream music…Just as they did decades ago, the feverish punk energy and the alien madness come together to create something really damn cool. This is a reunion album to be reckoned with." --Mathew Sweeney

USA’s, Chrome and FILAS make the lists for: All Music Noise Album Highlights and Noise Artists Highlights 

“Striking return to form for these industrial/cyberpunk pioneers, who have maintained an impressive level of bracing weirdness". - Mark Deming

USA's, Dangerous Minds 8/5/14 Interview and review

"It’s really goddamn good, good enough to completely torpedo my belief that a Chrome album needs Creed and Edge to be top-shelf stuff."

Sweden’s, Face Outward Blog

“…an excellent presentation of everything that made Chrome so good, and what continues to make Chrome good" 

USA’s, Under the Radar (hard copy)

"With primary member Helios Creed at the helm, ‘Scientist’ is a collection of linear songs though Chromed through and through. Had MC5 embraced a goth flair, with buzzing guitars and charging drums dizzyingly swarmed by electronic instruments, effects, and feedback, they might have produced something as maniacally rewarding as this in 2014."

USA’s, Baby Sue Review

“Sixteen cool tracks that prove Chrome is just as relevant today, if not more so, than ever before."  

USA’s, Thugbrarian Review 

“Chrome are as hungry as the newest band out there, and as relevant as ever!...[It] is most definitely the next level in terms of dynamics, production, and sound...I am here to tell you that this is the Chrome that we have loved for years…contain[ing] that Psychedelic Spacepunk…trademark…Anne Dromeda adds an extra dimension to the songs, as she has a beautiful voice when she is singing, as well as a sinister edge when she brings the darkness...I believe 'Feel it Like a Scientist' will be THE Chrome album that will finally break through to…the masses...There is essentially no one making music like this today. No One"

USA's, Paraphilia Magazine:

"It’s a challenging and exhilarating work. Longstanding fans won’t be disappointed by the high standard that’s maintained throughout, or the mania that drives the album, and for those unacquainted with the band (where have you been?), it’s a most appealing port of entry – as long as you’re up for getting your brain bent a little". 

France’s, Adopte un Disque

“Its demanding and complex, damn hard, but its richness and interest however are not to be questioned: a disk recommended for those who like to be jostled and travel to uncharted musical regions.”

Switzerland's, Der Bund Newspaper

"Feel It Like a Scientist" is hot! And it sounds somewhat disturbing. There it is again, the unpredictable Verdrogtheit old days, the guitar effects are exzessivst used, and once again Chrome are probably a bit too radical to win a flower pot".

Fan, Nick Gadman

“Great album. Easily one of the best by Chrome. A new classic.”

USA's, Heavy Metal Time Machine Blogspot

"Forgive me father for I have sinned. I've gone and sold my soul to Chrome. Not that I had much choice. All it took was one play of the group's long-overdo new album…and I was done for! One play. Just one play. That's the power of "Feel It Like A Scientist”...as close to greatness as one can come!"

USA's, Dangerous Minds Live stream of the single Prophecy and review.  6/14

"Having heard Feel it Like a Scientist', I have to agree—this feels music like 'the next level'...this stuff is worthy".  

UK’s, Uncut Magazine review 8/10 (hard copy only)

“The nth coming of San Francisco Art Punks. Four decades once they were first formed by the late Damon Edge, Chrome’s sulphuric take on rock ’n’ roll still sounds like they beamed down from a rarer, more caustic atmosphere than our own. Their head conceptualist is now guitarist Helios Creed, who’s kept the vision tight, true to the corroded metal, viscous electronics and Burroughsian collages of their signal albums, 1977’s ‘Alien Soundtracks’ and 1979’s ‘Half Machine Lip Moves’. There’s more thuggish rock action on ‘Feel It Like A Scientist’ but songs like ‘Unbreakable Fluoride Lithium Plastic’ are scabrous and overloaded as ever: psychedelia as torched landscapes and industrial accidents” —John Dale

UK’s, Uncut Magazine special insert in the review section (hard copy only)

“REVALATIONS, Helios Creed has been ReChromed…For anyone deep into the world of Chrome, the original San Francisco sci-fi psych-pink-rock- gang, the group’s myth has much to do with their outsider status- this was the group, after all, whose debut album was rejected by a major label in 1976 for sounding like ‘messed-up Doors.’ For Helios Creed, who joined soon after, and has led the group since the passing of founding member Damon Edge sine 1995, marginal life was where it was at: “San Francisco a the time was in this post-’60s mellow burned out hippy phase,” he recalls. ‘I wasn’t into it and neither was Damon. We both loved psychedelia, heavy rock, new free punk like The Stooges. Bumping in a truckload of whacked-out sci-fi electronics, the Chrome vibe was set: ‘When we’d record we’d both get what we called ‘the chill factor’ at the same time from certain parts of our recorded sessions.” That’s carried through to the approach on their newest album, ‘Feel It Like A Scientist’. ‘It’s got the rock and the rhythm section that rips your head off and the the weirdest shit you ever heard in rock on the top tracks. It’s a process. I call it being Chromed.” —John Dale

Austrialia's, I-94 Bar

"You need [Feel It Like A Scientist] in your ears, in your gut, in your cells, parasites and in your fucking dna”. Robert Brokenmouth

USA, All Music Review by Mark Deming:

"Like the sci-fi warriors they always wanted to be, Chrome were a band that never seemed to fit in with the times...Almost 40 years after they released their first album, Chrome thankfully still sound like interstellar oddballs armed with electric guitars and malfunctioning electronics, and 2014's ‘Feel It Like a Scientist’ is a remarkably effective evocation of the sound and style of Chrome's late-'70s albums Alien Soundtracks and Half Machine Lip Moves. This new edition of Chrome does have an aural fingerprint of its own -- drummer Aleph Omega has a more organic sound than the late Damon Edge, and D.I.Y. technology has improved enough to give this album much cleaner surfaces and crisper production than the sometimes clanky tone of the band's early work...it generates a palpable excitement that's a powerful reminder that, in an increasingly eccentric world, Chrome is still as bracingly weird as ever...Creed's commitment to Chrome's vision is as strong as ever, and the results will put a demented grin on the face of longtime fans. Judging from this music, Chrome are still lost in space, and who would want it any other way?"

Germany’s, Musik Express (Hard copy only)

"The first album from experimental rockers CHROME after twelve years of absence discloses an unbroken desire for confrontation in their heavy crash-test space lab ." 

Holland’s, New Underground Music Blogspot

“ ‘Feel It LIke A Scientist' stands full of delicious spacerock songs and is thus a must for every devotee of this genre."

UK's, Shindig Spacerock Special (hard copy only)

“Prophecy' is the first single from the album [Feel It Like A Scientist] & to call it a monster would be an understatement. The spirit of classic Chrome is intact, without being a retro rehash of days gone by. The song ROCKS hard… sporting a catchy riff, killer blazing dual guitars, & haunting keys & backing vocals....If the rest of the album is as good as 'Prophecy', this edition of Chrome is sure to make a splash in the post-millennium spacerock world’. —Jerry Kranitz 

San Francisco, USA’s, SF Weekly

"Prophecy" is...satisfying enough to remind you what you liked about industrial music in the first place". —Ian S.Port

Fan, David Warner 

"This new track (Prophecy) has just blown me away...Holy Shit guys, you're fucking AWESOME! You have just made me VERY happy with your BLINDING, AMAZING song... You have captured the original CHROME sound PERFECTLY and reinstated yourselves as a truly legendary, unstoppable force of cyber rock warriors! I LOVE you!" 

Fan, Tim Harper 

"Usually when bands are reactivated 35 years after their heyday it's either crap or a total disappointment as a bunch of old farts lumber through their greatest hits. But this is Chrome... " 

UK's, Soft Bodies Blogspot

"This is Chrome. Chrome never sat still, never rested on their laurels. They kept going, kept evolving. That's what they've done since year zero and that's what they're doing now. And the result is the strongest album they've done in years. 'Feel It Like A Scientist' kicks off with 'Nephlims (Help Me!)', which sets the scene for the first part of the album. Sci-fi lunatic rock. 'Something In The Cloud' is a definite highlight, that could have dropped off 'Half Machine From The Sun'. They're sounding more focused than they have in a long time, there's little waste here. They get in, do their damage and get out again…Helios Creed might be directing the ship, but this feels like a group effort. A band rather than just a would be visionary and some hired hands. As I said, best thing they've done in years".

USA’s, The Obelisk 

“However deep you want to dig, Chrome will meet you on that level…The material is vibrant and comes with a clear sense of the joy of its creation. It’s a spirit as inimitable as the craft on display throughout and no less individualized, and it speaks to the possibilities that lay within the current incarnation of Chrome ."

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Sweden's, Artorarsedistro Blogspot

"Yeah, we know what you think; 'old bands that were great, recording stuff 30 years later, must be horrible'. We were skeptical as well, but even though it sounds way more modern it's a actually a great CHROME album, well worth checking out".

UK's, Toby Mearing Radio Show Blog

"With Damon Edge dead I didn't dare hope..but this is fantastic!"

Germany’s, Stage and Reptiles 

“Conclusion…This album proves that Chrome’s new and veteran comrades to Helios Creed, harmonize so perfectly with each other that the new album truly need not fear comparison with the old battleships of the Creed/Edge era. A great album!” 

USA’s CVLT Nation reposts Ari Wilson’s review from the Holy Grail

"Helios Creed delivers the most thrilling brand of Chrome's music since the passing of Damon Edge...The re-formed ensemble captures the core of Chrome's sound as old-school, genuine, and with all its rawness and experimentality - it's all there with a touch of fresh ideas, like female background vocals..." 

 

USA’s, Seattle PI

“…best Chrome album I have heard in years...it is a welcome event to hear the group still sounding so fresh and majestically strange today. 'Feel It Like a Scientist' feels like classic Chrome."

Fan, Nightwrath: 

“Unexpected greatness from this most recent incarnation of Chrome, directed by legendary axeman Helios Creed…one of his best albums in years…”  

Italy's, Sentirecoltair

"Creed has achieved the goal of evolving the mythological sound of the early albums of this Californian group, making the new work current and listenable in the present, but at the same time true to the style of mutant creature that was the band...The initial 'Nephilims (Help Me!)’ has a riff that attacks stoogesiano, with icy synth inserts and a voice shouted in a new metal style. 'Prophecy' switches to ominously stellar dark metal tones...with 'Lady Feline' we find a grunge android between a crazy wah-wah riff and a swirl of distorted background vocals, and 'Big Brats' is hard rock from cyberspace, with a lot of electronic beats (and text by Damon Edge)…Solid guitar riffs are the basis of the experimental 'Unbreakable Flouride Lithium Plastic', a sort of nervous breakdown-style free jazz from space around a single metal riff…’Captain Boson', led by drum and bass funk / punk with dub guitar solos in hyperspace… ’Cyberchondria' a visionary psychedelic trip between hieroglyphics and foley in which the rhythm section to always holds the reins…electronic effects for 'Slave Planet Institution', the simple hypnotic force 'Lipstick' and a two-minute song that could be called almost pop 'Six’…This is a good overview on the sound of Chrome, which does not sound like a cover band of themselves, which is already a good result".

Holland’s, 3Voor12 Zuid

“With their raw mix of primitive punk, sci-fi, kraut and industrial rock, the band in the 80s gained a cult status…Recently Chrome released ‘Feel it Like A Scientist’ (2014). And album that proved that Chrome is far from depreciated. The expectations for the show in Rotter dam are high.”

USA's, Rocktober Reviews Blogspot

"The crunching, crushing guitar-fueled journey through hyperspace is post-futuristic. It also manages to be savage, funny, beautiful and wildly weird."

USA’s, The Helios Chrome Tribute Site 

"Killer record from start to finish" —Brent Marley 

USA’s, Heathen Harvest,

“…we have indeed been visited by an unearthly presence, but that it actually began in 1976 when a particularly strange individual named Helios Creed joined up with fledgling San Francisco acid-punk outfit Chrome and made his presence felt via a strange recording called 'Alien Soundtracks'...the band’s meisterwerk, the timelessly warped 'Half Machine Lip Moves', a record so far ahead of its time that we haven’t even managed to catch up to it yet...and the question is: could such a thing ever be captured again?…Well, in a way, yes it can, as 'Feel it Like a Scientist' falls squarely into the pocket of “classic” Chrome and is most certainly located in the same galactic quadrant as Half Machine Lip Moves–albeit significantly cleaner in sound and smoother in execution...."

Germany’s, Jungle World: "

Whoever believes that aliens have stayed long among us, could use Chrome for proof...'Feel It Like A Scientist', the new album by the band with Creed and now five other musicians is actually a celebration of strangeness...."

Finland's, Psychotropiczone Blogspot

"This album is really strong throughout and just as good as Chrome was in the early daze...The songs are well crafted and after the first amazement you start to notice some pretty clever, catchy melodies as well…I feel that Helios Creed has laid down some of his best riffs ever."

Sweden's, Orebrostad.se Interview and review:

"I like it I must say. It really sounds like Chrome...if you like their classic titles you will love this one".

USA’s, Head-Fi Forums 150+ albums to hear

“…this new album manages to capture the dystopian futuro essence of what made Chrome so great in the 70s"

Italy’s Onda Rock 

Following the death of Damon Edge, Helios Creed in 1995, found himself the only survivor of the legendary saga of Chrome. Training at the end of the seventies he gave body and soul to one of the most terrifying epic rock sounds, thanks to a mix of garage, industrial music, space-rock , psychedelia and avant-garde "beat-up "stuff”…peaking with “Half Machine Lip Moves" absolutely overflowing creativity .

Then just a year ago, he put out the archival material of "Half Machine From The Sun, The Lost Tracks From Chrome 79-80" placing the old Creed back on track today with the glorious name. He published these sixteen brand new tracks from the past,  after twelve years of stalemate (the last disks, in fact, both in 2002: "Angel Of The Clouds" and "Ghost Machine").  And the magic, somehow, was renewed, although obviously the peaks of the past are only a memory.

With one foot firmly planted in the past and one firmly in the present, the Californian guitarist, joined by six new traveling companions, give us over an hour of material on their new album “Feel It Like A Scientist”: deformed ( "Lipstick" ), escapes stoogesiane ( "Nephilims (Help Me!)") chased interstellar mode hardelica ( "Lady Feline" ), tape in reverse, voices coming out of the fucking walls and collagismi spastic ( "Prophecy", “Slave Planet Institution"), assumptive power- ballad androids ( "Something in The Cloud” ), boogie bullies ( "Six " ), deformed visions that feed on imaginary sci-fi fourth- hand ( "Captain Boson","Cyberchondria" ),  sweaty cyberpunk ( "Big Brats" ), experiments in slow motion ( "The Mind" ) and faded postcards from distant worlds ( "Systems Within Systems”, "Nymph Droid").

The foundations of this disc are all in the first three albums published between 1976 and 1979 If you hear echoes a bit everywhere in these traces, even if they are working with great patience and with the right amount of enthusiasm, the maximum may entice new followers to go up the river to its source before one of the most important names of American underground rock .

Italy’s, Onda Rock’s recent detailed piece on Chrome

Spain’s, Usonica

To ‘Feel It Like A Scientist’, Creed recruited a new lineup of musicians, including singer Anne Dromeda, guitarist Keith Thompson, drummer Aleph Omega, bassists Vibratus Lux and Steve "Trash" Fishman and synthesist Tommy Greñas  who additionally wrote all the lyrics on the album. Creed also included several lines originally written by the late Edge. In a statement, Creed said, "I have the best band together at last. It's the way I've always wanted to Chrome rings. It's what I always imagined that Chrome could be after Damon. I have been able to take it to the next level.” The resulting 16 tracks album is a kind of master class on all things Chrome that are good, as the band experiments deftly melodic sounds and intense hues. However, Chrome shows that even after nearly 40 years and countless lineup changes, their hunger and curiosity are still as wild as when the project began.“

USA's, Jersery Beat

"The heavy use of synth gives it a real 80s feel, in a German new wave minimalist way. Yet it also still feels modern in structure. Some of it gets downright delightfully weird, like “Slave Planet Institution,”...a lot of the album has a...psychedelic distorted sci-fi soundtrack sound. “Lipstick,”...sounds like a disco track for drunken robots. And I mean that in a good way... “Unbreakable Fluoride Lithium Plastic” is a pretty awesome one..." 

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USA’s, Razoncake

"...I’m gonna safely bet this’ll make it onto several “best of” lists come the end of the year, including any such list culled by this writer. Highly recommended. –Jimmy Alvarado

 

USA’s, Scott Colburn Blog, Audio Wizardry

"Brilliant…Genius…Album of the Year! This record will satisfy old and new Chrome fans. I can’t get it off my turntable!"

Italy's, Le Pelle Muta Blogspot

"This disc is at the head of my top 10 of 2014". 

USA's, Vintage Vinyl News ‘Feel It Like A Scientist’ makes the top ten list of new releases by a veteran artist

USA’s, Punk News STAFF PICKS List album under best new music 

Fan, Myke Adaptiv: 

"This is my favorite release this year!" 

Spain's, Ruta66 (hard copy only)

“The repertoire of this San Francisco group is one of the sharpest inventories of psychedelia, minimalist noise, and high energy…known as the alien bastion of American punk. This record brings back a new sheen to the sulphuric guitarist Helios Chrome and definitely fits into the heroic cultural Chrome saga. ‘Feel It Like A Scientist’ is not indigent of the accolades of Julian Cope who wrote regarding the fire at the beginning of their 1979 classic ‘Half Machine Lip Moves’ that it surpassed the beginning of even Iggy Pop’s ‘Raw Power’. Tracks ‘Six’ and ‘Prophecy’ renovate the minimalism of Iggy. After rescuing and editing the Lost Chrome Tracks and releasing ‘Half Machine from the Sun’ last year Creed and rose beyond the risk of falling into pastiche, but instead recaptured the essence of the Chrome sound.”

New Jersey, USA’s WFMU Radio 

“The Sci-Fi Stooges"

Belgium’s, Music in Belgium

”Imagine, simply put, the psychedelic Space Rock of Hawkwind and Cold Wave / Dark Wave / Postpunk minimalism…”  

Poland’s, Screenagers.PL

“post-punk charm of the old Chrome”

USA'S, BCN posts the single ‘Prophecy’ 

“LEGENDARY LEGENDS, Chrome, the mythical avant-acid-experimental outfit recently relaunched by guitarist Helios Creed, drift off into the inner vibrations of soundgasm sorcery on ‘Feel It Like a Scientist."

 

USA’s, Dunce Magazine Full feature interview

“Chrome manages to create a rock n’ roll sound that embodies both the sensory filled paranoia in the apocalyptic visions of Phillip K. Dick, as well as the post-modern, “I do what I want, and pay the price” situationism of hardcore punk bands like The Germs. They synthesize a digital world in which purpose and feeling seem to fluidly trade off dominant roles. Though the stream-of-consciousness beatnik elements of the sound are quite present, Damon & Helios play an actively experiential role in shaping it. Their every tape splice and sudden change of tempo parallels the stoner who sits before his Tumblr account, clicking from link to link on the basis of first sight…From their debut album ‘Alien Soundtracks’ to…their current post-Edge double album reformation ‘Feel Like A Scientist’, Chrome reconstructs a lens for psychedelia that rejects a policy of absolute metaphysical surrender and injects the notion that no matter what the presented circumstance may entail, the listener or artist chooses his own adventure.” 

Holland’s, Popunie 

"It fits well with the glory period of the band, but also makes clear that Helios Creed is still a gifted songwriter, who is also a current zeitgeist with a flawless touch...." 

USA’s, Punk News 8/6/14 Full feature interview and review: 

“This album is one of your darkest, meanest releases to date. Why have you gotten darker and wilder as you've aged, while most artists get calmer?”

USA’s, Punk News 8/8/14 Review

“Feel It like a Scientist is something of a contradiction. Without a doubt, it's one of Creed's darkest works. The entire album seems to be set in the shadows, suddenly flashing futuristic sounds before drenching them in Creed's notes. But, despite the pontifications found herein, such as being destroyed by giants, sex droids, cat women, and tales of slave planets, the band stops to have fun here and there. "Brady the Chicken Boy" is a minute diversion packed with ridiculously funny clucking…Scientist is an excellent showcase of everything that made Chrome great, and continues to make Chrome great. Long time fans will eat this up. With 35 years to come around and finally understand this galactic trip, maybe the rest of society will catch up on this release as well.”

USA’s, Daggerzine

"You might think that they’d mellowed with age, perhaps. Not a chance, the band hasn’t lost any power whatsoever, sounding just as barreling and punishing as they ever have. "

Paris, France's, The New NOISE Magazine July-August issue full 3 page feature interview, photos and review  (hard copy only) 

“Chrome, self-proclaimed acid punk, rock group, was formed in the mid 70 in California. After the death of its co-leader Damon Edge in 1995, Chrome continued. Helios Creed, the other thinking head and genial guitarist of the group, decided to keep it going with the help of Tommy Grenas on the keys and Aleph Omega on the drums ( cf our biographical article in the New Noise #18) Today, in the wake of the compilation The Lost Chrome Tracks from 79-80, the new album ‘Feel like a Scientist’, reconnects with the original post punk, punk, synthesizer and industrial sounds. Its all here: the distorted vocals, the lines of the synthesizer, the collages in the Cabaret Voltaire style, and very evidently the riffs of the inventive and psychedelic guitar of Creed…’MOST OF MY LYRICS ARE ABOVE ALL FREESTYLE AND YOU CAN COMPARE THEM TO DREAMS, IN THE SENCE THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO TELL WHERE THEY COME FROM’.

USA’s, Napster 

“…The world’s oldest industrial metal band still sounds like deadpan jiving beatniks jiving through distorted deep space…Creed’s new line up rerutns feedback, static, B-movvie nippers and power electronics to the robo-drone root of Wax Trax!, Voivod and the Butthole Surfers…”

USA’s, Broadway World posts live stream debut and 4 recently published review/articles and one of their own:

“The name catches it: , fast as quicksilver, curved in anticipation of the future, a redux reading of chromosome that feels more machine than man. ‘Half Machine Lip Moves’, the title of the third album from 1979, sets the blueprint for their crude cyberpunk take on rock 'n' roll. Thomas Wisse changed his name to Damon Edge and founded in 1975, but it wasn't until he met Helios Creed, a vocalist and guitarist with a name that made him sound like a solar phallic evangelist, that really came together, with a sound beamed from a dystopian vision of the future made by two guys with names like theoretical people.”

Argentina's, Ergo Felix Culpa Blogspot 

"Chrome overwhelming returns with a new album 'Feel It Like A Scientist'...This album is a masterful handling of Chrome's iconoclastic acidity...a manifesto of the permanence of the Underground"

Croatia’s KLFM Radio Reviews

“After nearly forty years... [Chrome] still have not lost their freshness and originality." 

Italy’s, Distorsioni  

"...Helios Creed surrounds himself with a circle of impeccable musicians (Tommy Grenas, Aleph Omega, Vibratus Lux, Lou Minatti aka Keith Thompson and Anne Dromeda) and creates an ideal continuation..." 

Spain's, Ruta Rock Magazine

"The 16-track album is kind of master class on all things Chrome, as the band is experimenting with melodies and deftly nuanced compositions, intense sounds and disharmonies... industrial "Big Brats", racy romp garage rock "Six", and density of goth-punk ballads. No matter the influences, however, Chrome shows that even after almost 40 years and countless lineup changes, their hunger and curiosity are still as wild as when the project began.”

Oakland, USA's, East Bay Express Full feature interview & coverage of Chrome's L.A. show 

“And while Chrome's latest album [Feel It Like A Scientist] is garnering the sort of accolades once denied to its early material, Creed aims to eclipse his past legacy with a new incarnation…Referring to Chrome's 1979 classic, Creed said, ‘I knew I had to top 'Half Machine Lip Moves' to make a comeback. Not many people have said it does, because that would be bold, but most say it's as good’…Indeed, Chrome's latest album, along with a recent archival release of unreleased recordings from the late 1970s, have yielded some of the most positive critical feedback of Creed's career”.

LIVE SHOW REVIEWS 2014

UK's, The Quietus Live Show Review June 21st, 2014 

A black hole in the noise: Joe Banks reports from Electrowerkz in London for Chrome's first show there in 25 years.

"Chrome live are a blast. With his panama hat, beach shirt and tache, singer and guitarist Helios Creed might look like he's just walked out of The Big Lebowsk…Chrome are absolutely their own thing. Creed's dense, compressed guitar sound mimics the squalling innards of the data networks crushing the breath out of the world, while the muffled clatter of Aleph Omega's drums is relentless, a dubby electronic snare occasionally cutting through the sonic haze. (Special mention too for second guitarist Lou Minatti, who manages to look both puppyish and cool in trapper hat, leather jacket and aviator shades)…“’TV As Eyes', 'Zombie Warfare', 'March Of The Chrome Police' and 'Chromosome Damage' all get an airing along with the heavy trance rock of new single . It's also great to hear 'Something Rhythmic (I Can't Wait)' – with its catchy chorus of, anthem, "I need you tied to my bedposts" – from the excellent "lost tracks" album Half Machine From The Sun released last year. As Creed explains from the stage, it was one of a number of songs that Chrome considered "too commercial" to release at the time….it's great that we now have an operational version of the band…a band that is capable of slipping it to the android once again.”

UK’s, Freq

Live Show Review June 21st, 2014

“Just as we arrive, Chrome take to the stage. The band look young, lean and tight: second guitarist, bass player, sample master and drummer. Both the sample master and the drummer trigger tape loops and assorted sound effects, and instruments are run through complex series of chains and micro-processors. And there at the front is Helios Creed, resplendent in an Our Man in Havana Panama hat…Creed announces that “This is a new one” and there are no issues around inferior later material here. Whatever it is (and unfortunately the PA doesn’t exactly lend itself to clarity for Creed’s between-song explanations), it’s a massive sonic cudgel with which Chrome proceed to smack us repeatedly round the head. It feels like having your brain bashed out with the sleeve of “3rd From the Sun” wrapped round a house brick. Clive returns, battered and elated, and I lean over and bellow into his ear: “I could listen to this for another four hours.”…tonight feels like a massive party of old school London weirdos, drawn together in celebration of a band that always felt like the ultimate expression of outsider weirdohood…The atmosphere is really something special, something to be cherished.” 

UK’s, Shindig! Magazine Editors Blog, live show review 

“…Creed’s musical muscle always was, and still is, Chrome. Lanky, slithery, spiny, blessed with an ability to churn out monotone three-chord demi-Asheton riffs, armed with voice effects from the dankest depths of twisted hell, and possessed of the demeanor of a cynical Bay Area morgue attendant. He remains the very personification of, and also the very antithesis of rock ’n’ roll, wrapped up in one man…Guitars are attacked (with band encouragement) by audience members with beer cans, the assorted tribes – punk, hippie, rocker, crustie, scene-kid (80s meaning) garage-head (both meanings) the (very) odd Mod, plus the assorted pre-industrialists that always populate this venue – dance like lunatics, and even Glen Matlock, crammed into a corner with the rest of us, manages a smile. Just enough space clears to view the onstage chaos, the wizardly bandleader’s Gibson rammed ceiling-wards. Pan-seared with white noise, and in heat which could vaporize, your scribe is beyond caring. Like the song says, “This is the New Age”. Always was, always will be.” 

Helsinki, Finland, Inferno Music Magazine Full feature review of the show Fight the Night 2 - Nightmare City, Helsinki, 13.-14.06.2014

"We do not need video projections and light show. Helios Creed melting and dripping face is the most psychedelic thing that you will ever see”

USA’s, Black2com Blogspot, Review of bootleg live CD of Chrome playing Spain’s Prima Vera Festival

“This one rocks just as good as if ol’ Edge was still alive and inflicting his demonic influence on the solar mess. Hot flare in the Siren tradition as the old faves are given new rewordings and sound just as feral as they did back when only a few of us fanables were in on the massive push courtesy BOMB! and a handful worthy fanzines…”

Germany’s, Stage and Reptiles 5/21/14 Munich show review, mention of ‘Feel It Like A Scientist’ and tour plug and photos of the show

“They played ‘Prophecy’ from the 2014 album ‘Feel it like A Scientist’…which do not shrink from the comparison with the old songs.”

 Holland’s,  3Voor12 Zuid

“Chrome is an incredible live band, and they played a thundering show tonight. Whoever was not here, really missed something!”

 

Germany’s, Rockstage Riot Rhenimain

“If ever there were a list of ‘100 bands to see before you die’ Chrome belongs on this list…As an opener they played the track "New Age" from their fourth album, which immediately turned the concert hall into a space tunnel that led directly into another universe  CHROME played consequently only songs from the era of 1977-82, with the exception of two songs from the upcoming album "Feel it Like a Scientist ", but these pasted seamlessly into the set…”

 

Holland's Gonzo Circus, Live show review and review for FILAS:

NEWS ITEMS ABOUT THE RELEASE OF ‘FEEL IT LIKE A SCIENTIST’

USA’s, Wall Street Sheet, (Save Time Know Everything), 8 New Albums From August That Hit The Right Notes:

“ ‘Critics are saying that Creed has kept the band close to Damon’s vision while continuing to grow. ‘Scientist’ is an excellent showcase of everything that made Chrome great, and continues to make Chrome great’ Punk News”

Spain’s, HumoNegro.com Post live stream of the new album

“Chrome again has reformed and the band is now made up of Helios Creed and Anne Dromeda (voice), Keith Thompson (guitar), Aleph Omega (drums), Lux Vibratus and Steve “Trash” Fishman (bass) and Tommy Grenas (synthesizers). The is this line up of Chrome’s new album and this legendary group that has made of the experimentation its emblem.”

Hungary’s, I Wanna Rock With You Baby, blogspot News item and ‘Prophecy’ live stream

“You know there is a new Chrome?….you can now rejoice with me”.

USA’s, Bandmine, Post live stream of the new album and long news item

USA'S, Punk Updates

“The music for ‘Feel It Like A Scientist’ is composed by Creed and the whole band, with lyrics by Creed, Anne Dromeda and Tommy Grenas, and features one track with lyrics by the late Damon Edge”.

USA's, Punk World News posts live stream of the release

"Chrome was putting out albums in the 70′s and they’re still at it today so… shit, someone’s got a cool ass grandpa".

Brazil's, NOIZE Magazine  Announcement of August release date for Chrome's 'Feel It Like A Scientist' and live stream of the single 'Prophecy' 

"The experimental rock of Chrome, delayed more than 10 years to launch a new album, but in August 'Feel It Like A Scientist' finally arrives."

USA’s, Album Streams.com

“It's been 12 years since San Francisco based experimental-rock outfit have released an album. Listen to the whole record in full via CoS.”

USA’s, Feuilleton    long article on Subterranean Modern record label with vintage interviews with Damon Edge and other bands from NME in 1979, 

mentions Chrome’s new album and show in London with links

USA's, Salt Lake City Weekly Announcement of release and live stream of the single 'Prophecy'

Russia’s, VK.com

USA’s, Listen Records 

http://listenrecords.net/2014/09/25/news-letter-657-master-control-program/ 

USA's, punknews.org 5/7/14 posted news item about the new album 

USA's, punknews.org 7/28/14 Posted live stream of the album from Consequence of Sound 

USA's, The Electric Sunshine Blogspot posted quote from Helios

USA's, Magnet Magazine “Prophecy” MP3 for free download

USA's, Magnet Magazine posts news item about new album release 

Stockton, USA’s Mega 100 FM, Iheart radio FILAS in playlist

USA's, Hellhound Music  posts full page news news item about release

USA’s, All Music list Feel It Like A Scientist under its list of 10 Recent Experimental Rock Releases list 

USA’s, Avoiding Science posts All Music's review

Holland’s, Jois Scion's Blog 

Announces Chrome's 'Feel It Like A Scientist' and a link to their review of the Rotterdam show from 3voor12 (posted above)

RADIO INTERVIEWS  PROMOTING THE EUROPEAN TOUR 2014, THE RELEASE OF ‘FEEL IT LIKE A SCIENTIST’, AND ALL THINGS CHROME

Finland's, Ripple Rock Radio show  INTERVIEW 

Germany's, Radio On Berlin  INTERVIEW 

How Many Years Too Soon An interview by Adrian Shephard with the legendary Helios Creed and Lou Minatti from the Seminal band Chrome, on the eve of their 2014 European tour and new album release “Feel it like a Scientist”.With exclusive tracks from the new album and…UFO’s, William Burroughs, Prophecies, Butthole Surfers, Kurt Cobain, Psychics, Led Zeppelin, Genesis P-Orridge, The Bohemian Grove, Amphetamine Reptile, The Residents, LSD, Haunted Studios, ST37, Philip K Dick and Ghosthunting in the Californian sun…

 

Germany’s, Expeditionen ins Klangreich/Expeditions into the Realm of Sound  Chrome INTERVIEW 6/13/2014

Covers a range of Chrome eras, with questions asked to Helios by phone prior to taping which the dj worked into his presentations of the songs

Germany’s, Radio On Berlin Chrome Day 5/23/14 To celebrate Chrome’s arrival in Europe — 24 hours of Chrome music an interview from midnight to midnight Chrome time

London, England’s Resonance 104.4 fm London Re-broadcast of Radio on Berlin interview to promote London Electrowerz show

USA's, Jack Blood Show  INTERVIEW

Helios Creed is a LIVING LEGEND!

Known by notable artists as “THE GODFATHER OF INDUSTRIAL ROCK”….

Welcome to The Jack Blood Show! This Exclusive UNSCRIPTED interview took place May 16th 2014 – As Chrome is about to take Europe by storm! (SEE DATES VIA FACEBOOK LINK) in this exclusive interview, Jack Blood, Helios Creed, and Chrome Guitarist Lou Manatti, discuss : Drugs, Alternative music now and then, Esoteric Symbolism in modern music, Helios experience living next to Bohemian Grove, The State of our age, 911, TV, The Elites, the state of our digital age, and higher consciousness where you can find it…The NEW Chrome Record is just out! “Feel it like a Scientist” – Jack Plays some of the new tracks for the first time on Radio! – We merge that with the classics!

Avant-punks Chrome to release ‘Feel It Like A Scientist’- on King Of Spades Records

Finland's, Meteliä Maan Alta Radio Show podcast  featuring selections from 'Feel It Like A Scientist'

London, England’s Art Rocker Radio

“artrock/noise rock legends Chrome (Electrowerkz 21st June)”

RADIO PROMOTING ‘FEEL IT LIKE A SCIENTIST’ and CHROME

Jersey City, USA’s, WFMU The Brian Turner Show

Tuesday, November 4th, 3pm - 6pm EST Chrome special with Helios Creed

"When guitarist Helios Creed met up with Damon Edge and joined the San Francisco band Chrome in 1977, the world got an acid-fried, dystopian sci-fi version of the Stooges that blasted out two records that no other band has come near capturing the warped genius of. Alien Soundtracks and Half Machine Lip Moves utilized a Hendrix kind of freeform aesthetic mixed with tapes, feedback, metal percussion and cutup soundscapes all heightening the band's projections of a world of abusive technology and zombie warfare. They later became probably the most unheralded cornerstone of 80's industrial music, and in the new millenium, scores of garage punks are hanging up everything they know and following Helios Creed's moves more than ever. With Damon having passed away in 2005, Creed (who has had a long solo career since 1985) now rechristens Chrome and has released the new album 'Feel It Like A Scientist'. Brian talks at length today with Helios and gets the lowdown on the past and present of this incredible and unique psychedelic punk band."

 

USA’s, Totally Radio The Daily Show (internet based) Chrome special

Oblique signals beamed back to us from the deep future in the form of abstract science fiction communications created by the industrial alchemists Chrome. An hour of some of the most inventive post-punk ever made by this '70s San Francisco bay-area band and including tracks from their masterpieces Alien Soundtracks and Half Machine Lip Moves. Plus - three tracks from last year's archive release Half Machine From the Sun. There's never been another band like Chrome: "Dethlok the Demolisher caught in a Philip K Dick plot".

San Francisco, USA’s, Radio Valencia 

“CHROME is a seminal SF darkwave/psych/industrial band that put its first LP out in 1975!  Ahead of its time is a huge understatement.  The most recent record Feel It Like A Scientist was just released last month, and it rivals the best they’ve ever done.  Your humble servant The Rock’N’Roll Nurse was graced with an interview opportunity with CHROME mainstay HELIOS CREED to boot.  Hear most of the new LP and the coherent parts of the interview on this GE episode.  Get out the acid goggles, fellow music geeks!”

PARTIAL LIST OF PRESS FOR THE RELEASE OF ‘FEEL IT LIKE A SCIENTIST’ AND/OR THE 2014 EUROPEAN TOUR 

Barcelona, Spain’s, Time Out

“Shadowy lords of the seventies and eighties,Chrome drag themselves out of the shadows to lay claim to their position as authentic pioneers of industrial rock and to personally remind us about how they road rough-shod over punk and took the Stooges’ abrasiveness to the darkest recesses.” 

Paris, France’s, Time Out?

“The  avant-garde and industrial pioneer group returns to Paris, 39 years after the start of their career, which began in San Francisco in the 1970s and their brutal music loaded with distortions was the essence punk music at the time, and has surprisingly kept its legitimacy today. Led by Helios Creed since the death of the leader and founder of Damon Edge in the mid-1990s, Chrome will be at Point Ephemere to present their first album in fifteen years, 'Feel It Like a Scientist. And feeling it has!”

Paris, France’s The New NOISE Magazine May-June issue (hard copy only)

posts photograph, bio and informations about the Paris show and tour dates

USA's, Tiny Mixed Tapes: News item about Chrome, tour and release

Germany’s, Stage and Reptiles 5/18/14 Lists write up, tour dates and poster

“Chrome comes to Germany. That is for many a makes for excited sensations, because for a long time was the band has not been here and fans looks forward to entertaining evening of unforgotten music.”

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France’s, Razibus, News item about tour and legacy

Italy’s, Utrasonica News item about tour, legacy and new album

Milan, Italy’s, Milano X News and Eventi Erietici, News item about release, tour and legacy

Torino, Italy’s DJ Tot en Tanz blogspot Torino show announcement short article

Torino Italy's, Pero magazine News item about Chrome, tour and release

Italy's, Freakout Magazine  News item about Chrome, tour and release

Italy’s, Milano X, News item about tour and legacy 

Italy’s, News Spettacolo News item about tour, legacy and new album

Oslo, Norway’s Bad Sounds Magazine show announcement

Finland’s, Psychotropic zone tour dates announcement and plug for FILAS

Finland’s, Rumba News item about tour and legacy

Denmark’s, Christiania News item about Chrome and show at Musikloppen 

Finland’s, Punk In Finland News item on tour, album, legacy

Czech Republic’s, Kultura iDNES.cz  News item on tour, album, legacy

http://kultura.idnes.cz/prijedou-chrome-0jk-/hudba.aspx?c=A140608_155344_hudba_ob

Czech Republic’s, Hudebni Akce Article to promote Prague show and new album

Czech Republic’s, Marast Music  News items about release, tour and legacy

Czech Republic’s, Novinky.cz

Psychedelic Chrome will play for the first time in Prague

“Chrome reinvent the psychedelic tradition of Hendrix, playing an enriched amalgam of punk and new wave electronic…This year the band will release a new album ‘Feel It Like A Scientist’.” 

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Czech Republic, Sancturary.CZ  Full feature interview with Helios Creed to promote tour and album 

Regarding the process of making 'Feel It Like A Scientist' he says: "So I blew out years of dust from old tape recorder and began to cast spells like old times"

Czech Republic’s, Angelika Spicarova Music Reports, News item about tour and legacy

Czech Republic’s, Full Moon Zine

Köln, Germany’s, Amusio Full feature article about tour and album announcement 

Sweden’s, Bad Sounds Magazine mentions the new single Prophecy in long interview with Helios Creed

“Chorme currently has their new single recorded in 2012, “Prophecy” on the [Pledge Music] site as a thank-you to pledgers. It’s and epic Sgt. Peppers meets Punk Rock track likened to classic Chrome, but with bigger production. The new album will be release in 2013 to here visit: ”

Slovakia's VAL202 posts news item about Chrome's new album...

Austria’s, DerStandard.at 

Cosmic chromosomes, U.S. band Chrome play the only Austria-gig at Ebensee

“The American band Chrome was in the 1970s a missing link between psychedelic flower power hippie bands and hard feedback Proto Punk. Chrome mastermind by Damon Edge indulged in addition to his preference for musical experiments beyond genre (art studies at Fluxus pioneer Allan Kaprow). Sound collages and cut-ups are characterized in the second Chrome album ‘Alien Soundtracks’ (1977) which was the first album Edge worked with Helios Creed as his main musical partner. The result is a sound that is equally at science fiction and Industrial universe of contemporaries such as drug poet Philip K. Dick, the cyberpunk poet William Gibson (the 1982 short story Burning Chrome published), the trash-garage punks The Cramps, the noise provocations of Throbbing Gristle, the spin Erten shenanigans of a Frank Zappa or the glam rock of David Bowie-type and Brian Eno docks. Not to mention the similarities with the motor Kraut Funk from Faust, Can, Kraftwerk, Neu! and La Dusseldorf. Until they separated in 1983 the Edge / Creed line-up played five albums. Edge led Chrome up to his death in the summer of 1995. In the meantime, several more metallic and Hendrix-influenced Creed solo albums was released on Amphetamine Reptile-label - where disciples and adepts as Jesus Lizard were located. Other Chrome fans include the Butthole Surfers, Nirvana and NIN. After Edge’s death Creed took back the helm of Chrome, adding current keyboardist Tommy Grenas, drummer Aleph Omega, and later rhythm guitarist Keith Thompson, vocalist Monet Clark and Steve “Trash” Fishman (bass). ‘Feel It Like A Scientist’ - The 38th album by Helios Creed is an album with the new Chrome members and was released this May.” 

USA's, Blurt Magazine online posts news item about the release and live show tour photo

"Prolific, to say the least..." 

Holland’s, Stitching Tocado  News item about tour, legacy and new album

http://www.tocado.com/news/chrome_in_rotterdam.html