Name: Keep This Be the Way
Brand: Helms Alee

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Catalogue number

CD-SH-258

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Digipak w/ lyric booklet

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-04-29

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

634457068506

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

LP-SH-259

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Black

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Gatefold Jacket w/ lyric insert

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634457068513

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Helms Alee

Genre US

Metal

Label US

Sargent House

Helms Alee is a Seattle three-piece formed in 2007 by

Across the span of their first five studio albums, Seattle trio Helms Alee have consistently refined their signature sound - a blend of lilting siren songs, crushing thunder and sludge, and heady guitar pop filled with lush guitars and elaborate three-part vocal harmonies that reach widely across various subgenres of the heavy music world. On their latest album, Keep This Be the Way, the band expanded their palette by delving into the production possibilities afforded by recording the album themselves, creating their most dynamic and technicolored work to date.

Guitarist/vocalist Ben Verellen, bassist/vocalist Dana James, and drummer/vocalist Hozoji Matheson-Margullis found refuge during the pandemic in their music and bunkered down in a makeshift studio in Verellen’s amplifier shop, recording songs with the assistance of Ron Harrell as they were writing them, composing the material with the added benefit of hearing them come together from the engineer’s chair. Keep This Be the Way still very much sounds like a Helms Alee record, but it’s their first album that diverts from the faithful recreation of their live sound and delves into a vibrant tapestry of surreal sounds and invented spaces.

Keep This Be the Way

Music US

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