Bad Girlfriend

Heldin, hail from the forgotten streets of Brooklyn's waterfront in Red Hook. A 3 piece fronted by a diminutive pirate queen, whose howling whiskey soaked vocals wrap themselves around a distorted crushing blend of slow melodic blues and pulverizing swampy metal riffs have been destroying audiences in New York for over a year and are soon to release their debut album Profungalactic. Recorded at Seizures Palace in Brooklyn, by Jason LaFarge (Swans, Khanate, Dresden Dolls), features Aubrey Smith on vocals whose versatile voice has accompanied acts as varied as Broken Social Scene, The Batterie, Anton Fier and Tony Scherr with Phil Kester on drums, from Gongzilla, Elliptical Ferns, Drumplay and The Batterie and Scott Murchison on guitars, from Nymph and Chicken Missile.



As a live act they have impressed audiences with their loud and intense swirling maelstrom of crushing bass driven blues metal and disturbed lyrical forays accompanied by Smith's personal attack on an aging and helpless Wurlitzer. Her startling voice ranges from the lost cries of Billie Holiday to the menacing roars of a demonic grizzly tied to the mast of a sinking ship. The riffs and melodies have influences that draw from Harvey Milk, Melvins and Dickless, but re-work them into an original soul destroying blend of bliss, lust, revenge and carnage.