Helios Creed

The biting sounds of grunge and industrial ruled the alternative airwaves in the 1990s, and most of the era's guitarists learned their licks from the Sex Pistols, Zeppelin, Sabbath, and Metallica. A fair number, though, were also inspired by the science-fiction paranoia of Helios Creed, who formed the proto-industrialist group Chrome and erected a lengthy discography of several dozen albums (roughly half of them as a solo act) to enforce his standing in the second tier of influential guitarists in his time. After moving to San Francisco, Helios Creed joined Chrome around 1977...