Helix frontman Brain Vollmer has dusted off more video footage from the band's archives. Check it out below.

Vollmer: "One of my favorite Helix albums is A Heavy Mental Christmas that we recorded at The A Room in London, Ontario in 2007. This was the brainchild of Gord Prior, and my band at the time - Brent Niemi on drums, Rick Van Dyk on guitar, and Paul Fonseca on bass. Steve Georgakopolous also played a big part. Before things even got going he and Gord had worked out some great arrangements. One of them was 'A Wonderful Christmas Time' by Paul McCartney. In these clips you see the behind-the-scenes discussions in the studio. 

The album was initially released through Fontana Universal, who put it in Walmart stores right across Canada, where it did very well. A few years later Sean Kelly (guitars) and I wrote 'All I Want For Christmas Is The Leafs To Win The Cup' and I hit the road with my Christmas line-up for 10 dates in mid and southern Ontario. Ironically, my guitar / piano player for that short lived tour was John Klaus (no relation to Santa). Sarah Smith, who is like a sister to me, was on guitar and vocals, Daryl was on bass and Fritz on drums.
  
Lynda and I worked all year long putting together this tour. We bought all sorts of Christmas decorations for the stage and at each show Lynda would set it all up. Daryl also worked his ass off, running back and forth from St. Catharines for practice and working on the live arrangements. Unfortunately, luck was not on our side for this tour. For beginners, it didn't snow until the very last date in Cornwall. Our ride home was on treacherous icy roads.  Secondly, the Christmas single we were pushing was the Leaf's song, and wouldn't you know it-there was a f**king NHL strike! I couldn't write this shit...

So I lost my shirt on the show. Luckily. Lynda supported me and didn't bitch about all the money, time, blood, and sweat. I still think it was a great show and who knows?  Maybe we'll take another shot at it in the future when all this COVID shit passes."

Vollmer recently made the following announcement:

"At 6:00pm EST on New Year's Eve, Helix will be having the world wide premiere of their new video for 'The Tequila Song' from the Eat Sleep Rock album.  It took an incredible amount of work to co-ordinate all the moving parts of this video. Choreographing and learning the line-dancing moves took three 2-hour lessons / wk with in-between practicing with Dancing Debbie via Youtube. All in all, over a month of rehearsing."

Helix recently released the Eat Sleep Rock CD on Perris Records, a compilation album with some of singer Brian Vollmer’s personal favorite songs recorded since leaving Captiol/EMI in 1990. The album was recorded at bassist Darryl Gray's own Dawghouse Studios, mixed by Siegfried Meier and mastered by Harry Hess (Harem Scarem). The artwork was done by ex-Helix guitarist Brent Doerner with photos by Victor Azziz Studios. "Brent is a very creative guy," states Vollmer. When he was in the band writing songs, he was with us for I think 16 or 18 years. I've always found him as a person who thought outside the box when it came to creativity so it's great still having him involved with Helix projects. He's like a 6th member."

Eat Sleep Rock adds the new track "Eat Sleep Rock" and includes "The Story Of Helix," a rap that Brian wrote a couple of years ago to kick off the acoustic show. "Eat Sleep Rock" is the first to feature new Helix guitarist Gary Borden, a veteran of the Canadian music scene who has played with Sass Jordan, Toronto and The Guess Who, worked with Gowan, and fronts his own original act Blood Of VanGogh. Brian continues, "Kaleb left last year, he was a solid member for over 10 years and he is still involved with the band writing for the next studio album. Gary is a great guy and he fits right in. It's great having guys with personalities like Gary and Chris (Julke, guitarist) to bring you up as it's tough when you are out there doing it all weekend long, travelling, playing, getting up early and flying. I got a great bunch of guys behind me."

For anyone that missed the August 14th BraveWords video premiere for "Eat Sleep Rock", check out the clip below.

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