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Rob Zombie/White Zombie
2007: "Zombie Live," a concert album (makes sense), was unfurled. The 18-track set was recorded during the '06 Educated Horses tour.
2006: Rob Zombie's "Educated Horses" with "Foxy Foxy" and "The Devil's Rejects" is issued.
2005: Zombie writes and directs a tale of murder, mayhem and revenge, The Devil's Rejects. Perfect "date movie." It's the sequel to House Of 1,000 Corpses.
2003: The horror flick House Of 1,000 Corpses is released. Zombie writes and directs, naming many characters after ones used by Groucho Marx. It's a simple tale of life in the Texas backwoods - inhabited by a sadistic backwater family of serial killers. There goes the neighborhood.
2003: White Zombie/Rob Zombie compilation album "Past, Present & Future" is released. It also includes new and unreleased material.
2001: Zombie's "Sinister Urge" arrives in stores containing "Never Gonna Stop" and "Feel So Numb."
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1998: The morbidly funny single "Living Dead Girl" is from Rob Zombie's "Hellbilly Deluxe" LP. The album, his first post-White Zombie effort, is a mega-seller.
1996: "Astro-Creep 2000: Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions Of The Electric Head" is unleashed. White Zombie performs "More Human Than Human" at the MTV Music Awards. They walk off with the Best Hard Rock Video award and also appear on Letterman.
1993: White Zombie makes their major label debut on Geffen Records with "La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. I." The title pretty much covers it. Beavis and Butt-head get behind White Zombie and later in the year, "I'm In Hell" appears on "The Beavis and Butt-head Experience" CD.
1989: Caroline Records signs White Zombie and release their first full-length CD "Soul Crusher" with John Rucci on guitar. Playing hard core primal Rock earns White Zombie a loyal underground cult following. This happens approximately two years after White Zombie's debut EP "Psycho Head Blowout" was released on Silent Explosion Records.
Without Alice Cooper or KISS, Rob Zombie would likely never have existed. Cooper and Zombie share a ghoulish sense of humor and a taste for the macabre. There is a whacky, often cartoonish, over-the-top mentality driving the proceedings.
Like Cooper, Zombie fronted a band that carried his stage name (or a part of it). Eventually though, both ditched their groups and went solo with a fair amount of success. Cooper even managed to score big with ballads, including the dreadful "Only Women Bleed." At least Zombie hasn't fallen that far.
"Educated Horses" could be called "pop Zombie." Sure, there's still the bleak and demonic but it is not as overt. Zombie's trademark techno-tinged cacophony is evident in "American Witch" and "Let It All Bleed Out" but on other tracks he charts a less intense but more rhythmical course. Muscular guitars lay down propulsive riffs on "The Devil's Rejects" and "Foxy Foxy." The latter sparked a controversy among the faithful. The song is undeniably catchy. Sneers of "selling out" were heard emanating from dark corners. But c'mon, Zombie is over 40 so maybe he just wants to have some empty headed fun. Even so, for the true Zombie experience seek out earlier recordings.
White Zombie's "La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume 1" ("Thunder Kiss '65" and "Black Sunshine"), "Astro Creep: Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head" ("More Human Than Human") and Rob's solo "Hellbilly Deluxe" are industrial Rock blasters in all their glory. They are the ones to get first. A notch down, "Sinister Urge" continues the pile-driving guitars and dense sound. There is even a Zombie duet with Ozzy Osbourne.
For those with any holes in their White Zombie/Rob Zombie collection "Past, Present and Future" fills the bill. The nineteen track set covers the highpoints and includes a killer unreleased version of "Two Lane Blacktop," a head-banger's delight (handclaps and all). The Commodores classic "Brick House" gets run through the Zombie Funk-Rock blender with help from former Commodore Lionel Richie. "Brick House 2003" is a game effort but it's a another Funk-Rocker, "Girl On Fire," that does the trick.