BIO
Black Helium are a three piece psychedelic rock band based in London. Never afraid to stray from the beaten path, Stuart Gray, Beck Harvey and Diogo Gomes fearlessly traverse aural hallucinatory soundscapes; from detuned Neanderthal rock to deep oceans of introspective blissed out psych.
REVIEW
The new album by Black Helium 'The Animals Are Coming' is now available to buy and ready and willing to fry your brain into a heavy psych stupor. The album follows a similar pattern to the band's previous full length 'UM' with shorter songs book-ended either end by much longer, multi structured tracks. What I love about Black Helium is their capacity to span several decades of underground music genres. The vocals are seemingly plucked from the 60's, smooth, dreamy and seemingly a safe haven, that is, until a splash of acid guitar sounding like a 70's Japanese freak out band inflames your hearing, and a hefty dose of modern sounding stoner metal intermittently infused with doom bakes what's left.
The underbelly of the album, two tracks of spacey psych engrained with a surprisingly funky bass escorts your mind into the void and onto the more scathing 'Up On A Hill' before 'Inside The Horror Mask' closes this excellent album with a homage to Hawkwind.
