Perris Records Announces the Release of HELIX’s “Scrap Metal” on January 23rd
Perris Records Announces the Release of HELIX’s “Scrap Metal” on January 23rd
Features Five Unreleased Tracks of Classic 80s HELIX Sound
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!”
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Track Listing
1. 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
Band Members
Lead vocals: Brian Vollmer
Programmed drums: Aaron Murray
Drums: Greg “Fritz” Hinz/Earl Constant
Guitars: Kaleb Duck/Paul Hackman/Brent Doerner/Sean Kelly/Christopher Julke/Mark Chichkan/Daryl Gray
About Perris Records
Perris 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
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