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.
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