Chrome

### AKA

Chrome featuring Damon Edge, Chrome featuring Damon Edge & Helios Creed, Chrome featuring Helios Creed

### Years active

1975-1983, 1984-1995, 1997-2002, 2014-present

### Labels

Siren Records, Ralph Records, Beggars Banquet, Don't Fall Off the Mountain, Subterranean Records, Expanded Music, Mosquito, Atonal, Dossier, Touch & Go Records, Man's Ruin, Cleopatra Records, Gearhead, King of Spades

### Members

Helios Creed, Tommy Grenas, Aleph Omega, Lux Vibratus, Lou Minatti, Steve Fishman, Tommy L. Cyborg

### Past members

Damon Edge, Gary Spain, John Lambdin, Mike Low, John Stench, Hilary Stench, Fabienne Shine, Renaud Thorez, Patrick Imbert, Remy Devilla, Olivier Caudron, Bab, Plume, Cliff Martin, Pierre Roussel, Philippe Sautour, Paul Della Pelle, Nova Cain, Z. Silver, Buz Deadwaxx, Rodney Dangerous, Anne Dromeda

**Chrome** are an American experimental rock band founded in San Francisco in 1975 by musicians Damon Edge and Gary Spain. After the recording of their 1976 debut album *The Visitation*, singer Mike Low left the band, and was be replaced by guitarist Helios Creed. Their second album, *Alien Soundtracks*, followed in 1977.

In 1979 the band, now consisting solely of Edge and Creed, released their third album, *Half Machine Lip Moves*, and an EP, *Read Only Memory*. That year they contributed three songs to the Ralph Records compilation album *Subterranean Modern*, alongside The Residents, Tuxedomoon and MX-80 Sound. The latter two artists signed to Ralph shortly thereafter, however Chrome instead chose to sign with English label Beggars Banquet, releasing their fourth album, *Red Exposure*, the following year.

In 1980 Chrome again became a quartet, with the addition of the new rhythm section of John and Hilary Stench. This line-up produced the albums *Blood on the Moon* (released in 1981) and *3rd from the Sun* (released in 1982). In 1983, Edge moved to Paris and formed a new line-up of Chrome, releasing a series of albums as "Chrome featuring Damon Edge" over the next decade.

Edge died of heart failure in August 1995. Helios Creed reactivated the project in 1997 with John and Hilary Stench, producing the album *Retro Transmission*; this line-up recorded and toured until 2001. In 2002, Creed completed previously unreleased recordings by Edge, releasing them as the album *Angel of the Clouds*.

In 2013, Creed again re-activated the project, releasing an album of previously unreleased material from 1979-1980, *Half Machine from the Sun*, and a new album, *Feel It Like a Scientist*, the following year. Two further albums by the Creed-led Chrome, *Techromancy* and *Scaropy*, followed in 2017 and 2021 respectively.

## Discography

### Studio albums

* *The Visitation* (1976)
* *Alien Soundtracks* (1977)
* *Half Machine Lip Moves* (1979)
* *Red Exposure* (1980)
* *Blood on the Moon* (1981)
* *3rd from the Sun* (1982)
* *Into the Eyes of the Zombie King* (1984)
* *Liquid Forest* (recorded 1984, released 1988)
* *Another World* as Chrome featuring Damon Edge (1985)
* *Eternity* (1986)
* *Dreaming in Sequence* as Chrome featuring Damon Edge (1986)
* *Alien Soundtracks II* (1988)
* *Mission of the Entranced* (1990)
* *The Clairaudient Syndrome* as Chrome featuring Damon Edge (1994)
* *Retro Transmission* (1997)
* *Tidal Forces (No Humans Allowed Pt. II)* (1998)
* *Ghost Machine* (2002)
* *Angel of the Clouds* as Chrome featuring Damon Edge & Helios Creed (2002)
* *Feel It Like a Scientist* (2014)
* *Techromancy* (2017)
* *Scaropy* (2021)

## See also

* *Subterranean Modern*
* Ralph Records

## External links and references

* Official website
* Chrome at Wikipedia
* Chrome at Discogs