News Updates:

James, Larry, Jerry, Robert and Russell want to wish Everyone In The World - A Great and Happy New Year 2008.

NOVEMBER 23, 2007
HELSTAR RELEASES "SINS OF THE PAST"

CHECK OUT A SAMPLE ON THE MEDIA PAGE!

June 27, 2007
We are proud to bring you the following press release regarding our new label:

US METAL LEGEND HELSTAR SIGN WITH AFM RECORDS
26.06.2007
Founded 1982 in Texas, Helstar went to a legend of the us metal scene with such albums like “Burning Star” (1984), “Remnants Of War” (1986), “A Distant Thunder” (1988) and “Nosferatu” (1989). After the split in the beginning of the nineties, James Rivera played in bands like Vigilante and New Eden before Helstar did a reunion and the album “Multiples In Back” in 1995. After the album, the band split again.

Afterwards, Rivera released 2 outstanding records named “Distant Thunder” and “Killing Machine” before he joined Vicious Rumors and did the recordings of their latest album.

After playing with Vicious Rumors on this years “Bang Your Head” Festival, Rivera signed a long dated contract for Helstar with AFM Records.

Currently, the band is working in the studio and re-record some of the classics from the first Helstar records to put them on a best of album which will be released on November, 19, through AFM Records. This album will also contain 2 brandnew tracks! The new studio album of Helstar will be released around summer 2008. The AFM staff is proud to announce this new signing and ressurect the cult

June 15, 2007
In honor and tradition of the "Bang Your Head" festival held every year in Balingen, Germany, the second US presentation of this event is scheduled to commence this summer in Houston, Texas. "Bang Your Head USA II - Texas" will be held on August 25th at The Meridian, centrally located in the heart of downtown Houston. Confirmed headlining acts are as follows:

HELSTAR
SOLITUDE AETURNUS
HALLOWS EVE

Regional Texas support acts to be confirmed at a later time. Genres to be featured include Power, Death, and Black metal bands for a variety appealing to most metal audiences. Tickets will be available through Ticketmaster. More to be announced soon.

June 2, 2007:
:HELSTAR Confirmed For Expanded KEEP IT TRUE X Festival
The organizers of the Germany's Keep It True X festival, which is scheduled to take place April 5, 2008 at Tauberfrankenhalle in Lauda-Königshofen, have issued the following update:

"Since we got tons of emails concerning the limited amount of tickets for the Friday show in April 2008, we decided to do both days now at the big hall in Lauda-Königshofen, so we will have enough tickets for all the fans wanting to come to KIT. So we will strengthen up the Friday a lot more and it won't be a warm-up show anymore. We will do this only for our jubileum KIT X as a special gift for all the true underground fans from all over the world. We will now have 6 or 7 bands playing on Friday with starting time 4 or 5 p.m. We will only sell tickets for both days for 30 euros and there will be daily tickets only at the doors. Pre-sale will begin on November 3rd, 2007 at KIT 9. We will have four (!) bands worth being the headliner on the Friday, so it will be a crushing show.

"Here is already the first addition to the Friday: HELSTAR will play in their classic 'Remnants Of War' lineup an European exclusive show and play the album 'Remnants Of War' in its entirety."

The festival billing is shaping up as follows:

Friday, April 4, 2008:

TITAN FORCE
HELSTAR
ATTACKER

Saturday, April 5, 2008:

JAG PANZER
MANILLA ROAD
CAGE
PHARAOH
CRESCENT SHIELD
DEMON EYES
BATTLE RAM

More bands will be added during the coming months.

For more information, visit www.keep-it-true.de.

Update: December 19, 2006
Helstar would like to wish each and every one of you a Happy Holiday and a Happy New Year. The upcoming year promises to be a busy one for Helstar as they have just officially announced that they will be playing in Mexico City on March 3, 2007. As promised the band is currently writing new material so be on the look out for some sneak peaks of that. Also check out the Larry Barragan interview with Full In Bloom Music.

Update: August 21, 2006
Larry Barragan will now be using Diamond Amplification speaker cabinets exclusively! If you were at the Helstar show in Houston you were the first to hear Larry use them live! And if you were at the Houston show, Helstar would like to thank the hometown for being once again one of the best places in the world to play. It really is true there is no place like home! Keep checking back for live photos from the show.

Update July 13, 2006:
The interviews keep rolling in. At long last Rob and Larry have finally been noticed by a guitar webzine. Read this heavily guitar oriented interview by Guitar6.

June 12, 2006:
The first review of Helstar's first 20th Anniversary show is now online read it on LivingForMetal.Com.

June 11, 2006:
We have lift off! Helstar played it's first show with the Remnants of War line up in San Antonio last night. The band would like to extend a very heartfelt thank you to all the fans that made it out and made this show one to remember!
On another note, read the new interview with James Rivera, Rob Treviño and Larry Barragan with Greek metal webzine Rockpages.

May 23,2006:
Rob Treviño and Larry Barragan discuss the past and the future of Helstar in an in dept interview also on Living For Metal.Com .

April 24, 2006:
Check out the latest interview with James Rivera, with Living For Metal.Com.