Mr_D's Full Review: Astro-Creep: 2000 by White Zombie
The full title is "Astro-Creep:2000 Songs of Love, Destruction and other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head", but will be referred to in this review as AC2k. Heh...
Released in 1995 as the long awaited follow up to White Zombie's commercial breakthrough La Sexcorcisto..., White Zombie continued the industrial trend in the metal scene of the day.
You'll get more horror and rock and roll trash with this release, plenty of cool soundbites and samples, including the appropriate "Perhaps we'd better start from the beginning..." at the start of the first song, "Electric Head Pt.1 (The Agony)". You'll get industrial thrash metal, Zombie's growling undead vocals, and pretty much everything you'd expect from White Zombie.
Which I guess is my main complaint, if I have one. The album doesn't really change much from the standard set with their last release. While this album certainly is more electronic, I don't know for sure if that's good. The production is so slick that it loses some of its gritty edge.
Not that this is a bad release at all, you've got some great songs here, including the one I Just mentioned, as well as "Real Solution #9", "Electric Head Pt.2 (The Ecstasy)", "I Zombie", "Blur the Technicolor", and of course, the ever popular "More Human than Human". Also, the album finisher, "Blood, Milk, Sky" is a little different for Zombie, but I think the song is one of the more creative on the release.
So while this is a great electro metal listen, it does lose some of the raw power we experienced with their last release. People who want more techno in their metal will not be disappointed, metal purists will be happier with their earlier work.
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