ZEN PISTOL HAS ARRIVED
BLISTERING 5th STUDIO RELEASE FROM WELCOME TO HECK documenting our carnival of depravity from the diamond eye within the eye; the sickness of love and the evenness of terror and pitfalls of human error. it is hideous. it is beautiful. it is the shadow at the End Of The Road. it is the fear of that shadow, the love for that shadow, the eagerness for that shadow’s Final reprieve.
Sixteen tracks written and recorded by Billie Grey Heck in 2020/21 between Los Angeles & Austin. Mastered by the goat Greg Saunier. Drum tracks recorded live with Michael Briggs at Civil Audio, Denton TX.
The cover art is a ceramic scuplture designed/constructed/painted/photographed by Jamie Lerman. (find more of her work at https://www.doublecradle.com/ )
BLOOD FETISH is a song to drink speed and listen to crack to
Track FOUR of SIXTEEN that’s RIGHT SIXTEEN WHOLE TRACKS but this is only one— from Welcome To Heck’s upcoming epic ZEN PISTOL. It is chaos in the brain and the blood has been made to flow thru you. Written in the era of Punk House Tribulations pre/mid-covid and is available now goddang anywhere you wanna listen to it.
Artwork collaboration between Big Jilm (@double_cradle) and Billie Grey Heck (@welcome.to.heck)
PHOTOS FROM W2H TOUR 2021
The really nice looking ones up top were taken by ellie alonzo, denton tx (https://www.elliealonzo.com/)
WELCOME TO HECK, “TAKE A MINNIT, v.2” npr TINY DESK CONTEST 2021
live performance of a NEW song from the upcoming W2H epic double record, ZEN PISTOL. Due out late 2021.
FLOAT TO ME single is the 808-shoegaze bop from Heck I left my wife for
FLOAT TO ME more like PON DE FLOOR as in PUT MY MIND DOWN AND ACTIVATE MY AUTONOMOUS SENSORY MERIDIAN RESPONSE CIRCUIT because this wild longing sonnet of sadness and unrequited love was written by a real life human size adult and sounds calculably like the heart of such an individual re-experiencing the bardo of teenage dreams of kissin’ and huggin’ and perpetual warm-milk company.
This track is a single from W2H’s upcoming record, ZEN PISTOL due out sometime in mid-2021, if we’re being generous. Art by Jamie Lerman.
Music video created by Wren. Find her on instagram at @http.punk_girl_milk (WARNING: VIDEO IS HIGHLY STROBOSCOPIC)
Is “SUMMER NIGHTS” A Scam?
Let me tell you, SUMMER NIGHTS is perfectly a scam. Billie Grey Heck’s fourth full length album speaks to the revenges of teenage guile and daydreams. Ranging from the completely guiltless pop flirtations of “Sky is Glass” to the blistering guitar spellwork in “Nectarine” primeval dark incantations in “Wheel of Bliss” the album is a total chameleon of the sonic realm (as any honest art should) and tells itself as a saga, a myth, as we’ve seen in so much of Heck’s work.
We asked for Heck’s personal take of the record and received this:
“A horizontal row of ugly little spirits, switching behind big masks almost megalithic in their invention, as still and ever silent as the moon in orbit. The little spirits dance thru and around the masks, exchanging little squeaks and prattling like bad spies reporting of their plunder and experiments… I’ve always liked Basquiat the most, after all.”
Available 12.23.19 on all streaming platforms and for direct purchase on Bandcamp. Olson’s Film “SUMMER NIGHTS” will be out in 2020.
“ WHO AM I?? ” is the cri de cœur of HECK.
Composed between 2016-2018, the third studio album by Los Angeles-based WELCOME TO HECK is a romantic incantation from dark night of the soul. WHO AM I?? fuses its aesthetic from the lexicon of early rock & roll, 1970s No-Wave Punk, textural avant-garde, and the wild prose of American Beat poets. HECK makes a statement of gender fluidity and protests materialism and decadence within the raw and rubbed-wrong confines of tape format recording.
Available 4.27.19 to and from, of all and forevermore, the great streamer platformants and radiophite sites today and NOW! for your perennial entertainment.
I Wish I Had A “LON LON SAMURAI”.
Episodic hallucinations of slink, Black Death Dragon Sahara, Salah, his father, Eve, Danielle, Arrakis, Hashish mind deconstruct into sea of Chefchaouen-blue vistas, ultimate sad death, being for non-being --
manic moonlit management of traces: Deerhoof, MBV, Koji Kondo, Waiqueys, quarter tones, Huachuma, Pitusiray, 23 enigma, midnight Tangier streets, Berber markets, dark-eyed Moroccan boys strumming cave wisdoms atop Alhambra, Om! Great Thunderbolt I'm Dark Void mounting Pachamama -- created during period of world wanderings 2015-2017.