Live Video: Helms Alee

Live Video, Seek and Destroy
02/06/2014
Janice Headley
photo by Amber Zbitnoff (view set)

For just three people, Seattle metal trio Helms Alee make a big noise. Performing tracks off their third album Sleepwalking Sailors, they rocked the KEXP studios with their pounding rhythms, insistent vocals, and heavy guitar riffs. How do they do it? "We don't use our heads, basically," laughs drummer Hozoji Annie Matheson-Margullis (aka Hozi). Whatever they're doing has heads banging across the city. Check out their session on KEXP's Seek & Destroy below:

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