Chrome (8)

Real Name:1st Period: Damon Edge & Helios Creed / 2nd Period: Damon Edge
Profile:Under the innocuous name of Chrome, two San Franciscans — Damon Edge (vocals, synths, etc.) and Helios Creed (vocals, guitar, etc.), with part-time rhythm-section assistance by the Stench brothers of Pearl Harbor's band — created an often awesome series of pre-industrial LPs that explore a dark state of mind only hinted at by '60s psychedelia. Taking cues from Suicide, Can, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Residents, The and anyone who ever made home tapes in their bedroom, the pair's dense, chaotic science-fiction epics are vivid vinyl nightmares — a thick blend of mechanical noises, filtered, twisted voices and fantastic, bizarre lyrics — that flesh out a frightening world both absorbing and repellent. Though conventional song structures are preserved to the point where tracks can be distinguished (indeed, the duo's early efforts aren't all that far from semi-normal guitar rock), Chrome's strength is its ability to create sounds of horrible beauty that transcend discrete musical units. If not as conceptually out there or as ear-splitting as the noisemongers and goth-rockers that followed the duo, Chrome's sonic intensity is still something to behold.
URLs:http://www.staticwhitesound.com/chrome/
http://www.scaruffi.com/vol4/chrome.html
Members:Aleph Kali, Damon Edge, Gary Spain, Helios Creed, Hilary Stench, John Lambdin, John Stench, Michael Lowe
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Releases:
The Visitation (Album) ◄ (3 versions)   Siren Records (7) ... 1976
Alien Soundtracks (Album) ◄ (6 versions)   Siren Records (7) ... 1977
Half Machine Lip Moves (Album) ◄ (8 versions)   Siren Records (7) ... 1979
Read Only Memory (12")   Siren Records (7), Red Records (US) 1979
New Age (7")   Beggars Banquet 1980
Red Exposure (Album) ◄ (9 versions)   Beggars Banquet ... 1980
Blood On The Moon (Album) ◄ (4 versions)   Don't Fall Off The Mountain ... 1981
Inworlds (12")   Don't Fall Off The Mountain 1981
3rd From The Sun (Album) ◄ (6 versions)   Siren Records (7) ... 1982
Anorexic Sacrifice (7")   Subterranean Records 1982
Box ◄ (3 versions)   Subterranean Records ... 1982
Firebomb ◄ (2 versions)   Risky Records ... 1982
No Humans Allowed (MiniAlbum) ◄ (3 versions)   Expanded Music ... 1983
Raining Milk (LP)   Mosquito (Fr) 1983
Into The Eyes Of The Zombie King (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Dossier ... 1984
Another World (LP, Album)   Dossier 1985
The Lyon Concert (LP)   Atonal Records 1985
Dreaming In Sequence (LP)   Dossier 1986
Eternity (LP)   Dossier 1986
Another World / The Lyon Concert (CD, Album, RE, Comp)   Dossier 1987
The Chronicles I (LP)   Dossier 1987
Alien Soundtracks II (LP, Album)   Dossier 1988
Blood On The Moon / Eternity (CD, Comp)   Dossier 1988
Into The Eyes Of The Zombie King / Alliance (CD)   Dossier 1988
The Chronicles II (12")   Dossier 1988
Alien Soundtracks & Alien Soundtracks II (CD, Comp)   Dossier 1989
Half Machine Lip Moves / The Surreal Rock (CD)   Dossier 1989
Live In Germany (LP, Album, Cle)   Dossier 1989
The Chronicles I & II (CD, Album)   Dossier 1989
3rd From The Sun / Grand Vision (CD)   Dossier 1990
Half Machine Lip Moves / Alien Soundtracks (CD, Comp)   Touch And Go 1990
Liquid Forest (LP)   Dossier 1990
Mission Of The Entranced (12")   Dossier 1990
Mission Of The Entranced & Live In Italy (CD, Album)   Dossier 1990
Red Exposure / The Wind Is Talking (CD)   Dossier 1990
Dreaming In Sequence / Liquid Forest (CD, Comp, Album)   Dossier 1991
One Million Eyes & Live In Italy (CD, Comp)   Dossier 1991
The Visitation & Live In Germany (CD)   Dossier 1991
The Clairaudient Syndrome (CD, Album)   Dossier 1994
3rd From The Sun & Into The Eyes Of The Zombie King (CD)   Cleopatra 1995
Having A Wonderful Time With The Tripods (CD, Comp)   Dossier 1995
Having A Wonderfull Time In The Juice Dome (CD, Comp)   Dossier 1995
Third Seed From The Bud (10")   Man's Ruin Records 1996
Retro Transmission (Album) ◄ (3 versions)   Cleopatra 1997
Torque Pound / 400,000.37 Miles (7")   Gearhead Records 1997
Tidal Forces (No Humans Allowed PT II) (CD, Album)   Man's Ruin Records 1998
Chrome Flashback / Chrome Live • The Best Of (2xCD)   Cleopatra 1999
Angel Of The Clouds (CD)   Dossier 2002
Ghost Machine (CD, Album)   Dossier 2002
Anthology 1979-1983 (CD, Comp)   Cleopatra 2004
Appears On:
10 Years In 20 Minutes (12", S/Sided, Ltd, cle)   Ralph Records 1984
Third From The Sun (7", Ltd)   Glitterhouse Records 1991
Industrial Revolution: 3rd Edition Rare & Unreleased (2xCD) Eyes In The Center (Ex... Cleopatra 1996
Space Box - 1970 & Beyond (3xCD, Comp) Third From The Sun Cleopatra 1996
Titmen (10", Ltd) Pharoah Chromium Petty Bourgeois Broadcasts 1997
Tracks Appear On:
Subterranean Modern (LP) Anti-Fade, I Left My H... Ralph Records 1979
Dossiers (LP) Love To Your Rock Dossier 1986
Dossiers II (LP, Cle) That's Okay For Me Dossier 1989
Dossiers (CD) When The Hall Cries Dossier 1992
Terror - An Industrial Metal Compilation (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) 3rd From The Sun Mental Decay Records 1993
Nik Turner & Travellers Of Space (CD, Comp, Promo) 3rd From The Sun Cleopatra 1995
Industrial Revolution Second Edition (VHS) Meet You In The Subway Cleopatra 1996
Industrial Revolution: 3rd Edition Rare & Unreleased (2xCD) Eyes In The Center (Ex... Cleopatra 1996
Space Box - 1970 & Beyond (3xCD, Comp) Third From The Sun Cleopatra 1996
A Tribute To The Music & Works Of Brian Eno (CD, Comp) Here Come The Warm Jets Cleopatra 1997
Archives Of Space (CD, Comp) Zombie Warfare Purple Pyramid 1997
Schizoid Dimension - A Tribute To King Crimson (CD, Comp) Moonchild Purple Pyramid 1997
Gothic Industrial Madness (DVD, NTSC) Meet You In The Subway Music Video Distributors 2000
Industrial: Music Of The Shadows Vol. 3 (CD, Comp) Firebomb K-Tel International (USA), Inc. 2000
Runnin' On Fumes! - The Gearhead Magazine Singles Compilation (CD) Torque Pound Gearhead Records 2000
Goth - The Ultimate Collection (2xDVD) Meet You In The Subway Music Video Distributors, Cleopatra 2002
Rare Trax Vol. 25 - First Wave Part Two (CD, Comp, Car) Our Good Dreams Rolling Stone (Germany) 2003
Strobelights Vol. 2 (CD) In A Dream Strobelight Records 2004
Cherrystones Word (And The Sympthetic Sounds Of The Psychadelic Ghetto) (CD, Album) You've Been Duplicated Tlon Uqbar 2007
Unofficial Releases:
Chromosome Damage (LP)   Pentagram Records 1986
Read Only Memory / Red Exposure (CDr)   Dolor Del Estamago  
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