Pros: Insane metal with wonderfully implanted samples
Cons: Evil... pure evil
The Bottom Line: For those who don't mind a little evil in their day-to-day lives, White Zombie provides an apt soundtrack of torment, chaos, and all-out metal.
blindside's Full Review: Astro-Creep: 2000 by White Zombie
White Zombie. Founder Rob Zombie is now known for his solo career, which offers up the same style of music as White Zombie, except with less of the metal and more of the samples. But White Zombie is where it all began: with its burning riffs, mind-numbing rhythms, frightening samples, and evil lyrics. If there is a rock and roll hall of fame in Hell, White Zombie will have the largest showcase.
The album, from the get-go, shows off Zombie's ear for music, for combining samples with guitars to wicked effect.
"Perhaps we better start from the beginning," the LP begins, then goes into eerie organs, effects, and eventually what sounds like a slow-moving train click-clacking over tracks, never speeding up or slowing down, just trudging along. And, finally, in perfect rhythm with the percussion of the train's slow progression, the music comes it, at first whining, then bellowing with the energy of all Hell's sinners.
This CD, released in 1995 on Geffen Records, has all sorts of stars, including the opening track "Electric Head Pt. 1 (The Agony) with WZ's brand of metal that's, somehow in the midst of all the chaos, radio-friendly; "Real Solution #9," which starts off with a great sample that crashes into heavy guitars and then bottoms out into Rob's muffled lyrics fed through various processors; "Creature of the Wheel" with its awesome vocal track, guitars that are so fun to listen to, and the typical incessant bone-shattering pelting of the drummer; "More Human Than Human" with its slide distortion that led me to buy this album after hearing it on Headbanger's Ball back in the mid-nineties; and the best song on the album, "Blood Milk and Sky," which is an almost romantic piece of musicianship, sporting mysterious guitars that manifest nightmares of spirits ascending from grave plots, a sullen Rob Zombie who sounds half-awake, and a quasi-chorus with beautiful female vocals fed into the mix to create a beautiful orgy of sounds.
Frankly, this album is a must-have for anyone eaten up with acts like Powerman 5000, Fear Factory, or Marilyn Manson's harder material. It should not, however, be purchased for or by children because of lyrics some might find offensive and lude illustrations in the booklet.
Enjoy your White Zombie, evil music at its purest.
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