Chrome

DISCOGRAPHY

The Visitation (1976) 6.5/10

Alien Soundtracks (1977) 7/10

Half Machine Lip Moves (1978) 8.5/10

Red Exposure (1980) 5/10

Blood on the Moon (1981) 4.5/10

Third from the Sun (1982) 5/10

Into the Eyes of the Zombie King (1984) 4/10

Helios Creed: X Rated Fairy Tales (1985) 6/10

Another World (1985) 4/10

Eternity (1986)

Dreaming In Sequence (1986) 4.5/10

Alien Soundtracks II (1988) 4/10

Helios Creed: Super Catholic Finger (1989) 7/10

Mission of the Entranced (1990)

Liquid Forest (1990)

One Million Eyes (1991)

Clairaudient Syndrome (1994)

Helios Creed: Planet X (1994) 5/10

Helios Creed: Busting Through the Van Allan Belt (1994) 5/10

Retro Transmission (1997) 6/10

Tidal Forces (1998)

Ghost Machine (2002)

Angel of the Clouds (2002)

Helios Creed: On the Dark Side of the Sun (2003) 5/10

Feel It Like a Scientist (2013)

Techromancy (2017) 4.5/10

   Blood on the Moon shows a sense of New Wave in the rhythms, but the signature "layered" sound of the band has been greatly dumbed down. Of course Helios Creed's flange and other guitar gimmicks are always a treat, but the rest of the music is underwhelming now that the industrial congestion has been scrapped. 

   Helios Creed's Planet X provides more spacey industrial rock with more of the Butthole Surfers' hillbilly psychedelia. 

   The tracks offer basic stimulation for a space-rock/noise-rock record, but it stalls on occasion with jams that simply last too long (Kurt Zombie) and only teases the truly interesting sounds (the slow but nonetheless funky reverse-echo chamber Plato's Cave). 

   Savage guitar fuzz is the album's main selling point. The programmed drums would probably benefit with some of the corrosive modulation seen in Chrome's earlier work -- fluctuating distortion, delay, reverb, or whatever -- just to make the beats less monotonous juxtaposed to the madness of Helios Creed's guitar and the trippy sampling/keyboards. 

   Damon Edge was discovered dead in his home in August 1995.