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Chris Helme
Birthdate:
4.9.75
Email:
KnifeStreet@aol.com
Personal Web Page
Seasons of Discontent
Instrument:
Assault & Battery
Favorite band of all time:
Black Flag
Biggest musical influences:
See my playlist & you'll get an idea...
CD's in your CD player:
Metal Playlist
Death - Symbolic, Individual Thought Patterns, Human & Sound of Perseverence
Carcass - Heartwork, Necroticism & Swansong
Decapitated - Nihility & The Negation
Nile - all
At the Gates - Terminal Spirit Disease & Slaughter of the Soul
Anthrax - all from the 80's to present, everything
Asphyx - The Rack
Impaled - all
Exhumed - all
Ghoul - Maniaxe
Blood Red Throne - all
Sadus - Swallowed in Black & Vision of Misery
Divine Empire - Redemption
Morbid Angel - first 4 & Heretic
Hate Eternal - King of all Kings
Internecine - Book of Lambs
Angelcorpse - The Inexorable
Misery Index - Overthrow & Retaliation
The Haunted Made Me Do It
Amon Amarth - Versus the World
The Crown - Crowned in Terror & Deathrace King
Opeth - all
Byeond the Flesh - all
Beyond the Embrace - Against the Elements
I'm actively listening to over 300 metal CD's on a somewhat regular basis, so let's just say those are in the heaviest rotation, but I listen to tons of shit.
Even though Lars is a douche, I still cherish all of Metallica's albums
up to the Black album.
which reminds me...
Fuck you guys for Load
Fuck you guys again for Re-Load
and the biggest FUCK YOU ever for St. Anger
You're a fucking disgrace to your roots, you money hungry pieces of shit.
Let me regain my composure and continue...
Hip Hop playlist...
Eminem - all his CD's, bootleg stuff
D12 - all
50 Cent - bootleg stuff
G-Unit - bootleg stuff
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Ice Cube - all
Nonphixion - The Future is Now
Ill Bill - Ill Bill is the Future
Jedi Mind Tricks - all
Obie Trice - Cheers & bootlegs
7L & Esoteric - all
Akrobatik - all
KRS1 and Boogie Down Productions - all
Mr. Lif live at the Middle East
Aesop Rock - all
and mad ups to Mr. Giblin, who drops knowledge like the Clumsy Professor.
Other stuff...
Rollins Band - all
Black Flag - all
Rise Above - Black Flag Tribute CD
(Fuck Greg Ginn!)
all of the Rollins spoken word CD's
And too much other stuff to list here...
Favorite Books:
Everything by Henry Rollins from Two Thirteen Sixty-One to Broken Summers. I'm down to needing only two books by HR: You can't Run From God and 20. If anybody has these, and is willing to part with them for a reasonable price, EMAIL ME!!!
anyway, here's my list...
Lies My Teacher Told me & Lies Across America by James Loewen
All books written by the following brilliant writers:
Ayn Rand
Jack Kerouac
Charles Bukowski
Chuck Palahniuk
William S. Burroughs
Henry Miller
and Kurt Vonnegut
Most importantly I've been reading books on my label, KnifeStreet Publications:
Jerk in the Box by Kelly Spooner
Gashes to Ashes by Pam Garnett
One Way Street by George Pacheco
and the forthcoming and yet-untitled works of Jon Helme
You guys all rule!
You're putting together the ultimate reunion show. If you could reunite five bands for this one show, who would you choose?
For a metal Show, I would say:
Carcass, Asphyx, Angelcorpse, Sadus and bring Chuck back from the grave for a Death reunion! (R.I.P.)
Now, if it was a hardcore show, I would pick:
Piecemeal, Forty Days Rain, Harvest, Barrit, and Again Without Feeling
Name the drummers who have influenced you the most:
Metal Drummers...
Gene Hoglan (Death)
Tony Laureno (Nile & Angelcorpse)
Pete Hamoura (Nile)
Derek Roddy (Hate Eternal, Divine Empire, Nile)
John Longstreth (Origin, Skinless, Exhumed)
Raul Varela (Impaled)
Kevin Talley (Dying Fetus & Misery Index)
Matt Byers (Misery Index)
Vitek (Decapitated)
Pete Sandoval (Morbid Angel)
Nicholas Barker (Dimmu Borgir & Cradle of Filth)
Dave Lombardo (Slayer, Grip Inc.)
Martin Lopez (Opeth)
Charlie Benante (Anthrax)
Janne Saarenpää (The Crown)
Ken Owen (Carcass)
So many metal drummers, that I can't list them all.
Non-metal drummers...
Neil Peart (Rush)
Stewart Copeland (The Police, Oysterhead)
Bill Bruford (Yes)
Travis Barker (Blink 182, Boxcar Racer)
Lars Ulrich, oh wait, He's the worst metal drummer ever. Never mind.
(Hey Lars, loved the CLANG, CLANG, CLANG on St. AssCrack, loser! In an era where Charlie Benante, Dave Lombardo, Pete Sandoval, Ken Owen and Gene Hoglan were putting out records at the same time as these Metallicretins, what asshole voted for Lars as best metal drummer? Fuck you, you're obviously wrong! Leave it to shitty magazines like Metal Edge and Circus to glorify the percussive skills of this half-witted neanderthal who couldn't place a drum fill properly if his worthless life depended on it. Fuck Lars Ulrich, Fuck his band of cash-grabbing ass clowns, fuck their last three records and fuck anyone who's ignorant enough to disagree with any of these statements because you're wrong too, jackass!!!)
What are you doing when not playing music?
Full-time student at BCC, but in my spare time I dig writing, listening to music, reading, PS2 sports games, roller hockey, watching American Choppers & salivating while saving for a bike of my own, hanging out with my family & friends and working on publishing books for my indie book label, KnifeStreet publications.
Special Thanks go to my wife Allison, without whom I wouldn't be where I am today, I love you! Lots of love to our little metalheads Stephen & Timothy, Daddy's proud of his boys! Thanks to my parents, my brother Jon and his soon-to-be wife Pam (congrats!) my sister Stephanie and her #1 girl Cadence, my dearest friend Kelly who has been there for me from the beginning & my brother in arms Russ Ben-wah and the Lexington crew, my other brothers waging the war on bad metal, Metal George, Tim & Loki, Long Live the Fighters!!! You guys are a part of my family now.
What kind of equipment do you use?
Black 5 piece Yamaha Stage Custom drum kit
Black stained finish
10" & 12" toms, 14" & 16" floor toms, all with Evans Hydraulic batter heads and clear resonant heads.
22" bass drum with Evans EMAD bass drum head system.
Black Yamaha 6 & 1/2" x 13" Musashi oak snare with an Evans Genera G2 batter head and clear resonant head.
Gibraltar rack hardware and two LP tom-mounted cymbal arms.
Tama Iron Cobra double bass pedals and two-legged hi-hat stand.
Zildjian 14" ZBT hi-hats.
Zildjian 17" and 18" Z Custom Rock Crash cymbals.
Sabian 18" AAX China cymbal.
Sabian 8" and 10" AAX Splash cymbals.
Sabian 12" China splash cymbal
Sabian 13" Crash cymbal.
Zildjian 20" Z Mac Ride cymbal.
Zildjian 6" Zil bell.
7 1/4" Sawblade. Check Home Depot.
Vic Firth Extreme 5A model sticks
Working on eventually changing my pedals & hi-hat stand to either Axis or Yamaha Flying Dragons.
(Switching to direct drive as soon as it's financially possible!!!!)
Are you involved in any other bands?
I've been involved with a bunch, but right now the only band I'm doing any work with is The Accursed.
Again Without Feeling - Drums & vocals (old band, studio project)
United Forces - Drums & vocals (S.O.D. tribute band)
Dominion 2000 - Drums (high school band, another dumb studio project on the back burner)
Barrington - Drums & vocals (melodic emo-rock, on the back burner)
Death Perception - Drums, Guitars, Bass, vocals, sampling, other assorted noise (filthy blast-beat laden grindcore)
Quote:
Live every moment of every day like it could be your last. You don't get second chances, so take every first chance you get.
