With songs like the single ‘Dragula’ (a remix of which featured in The Matrix in 1999), ‘Living Dead Girl,’ ‘Demonoid Phenomenom,’ ‘Meet the Creeper’ and, well, the whole album really, Rob Zombie certainly got off to a flying start to his solo career. With its spooky, sample heavy intro ‘Call of the Zombie’ to the heavy riffing and infectious “Hell Yeah” refrain in first song ‘Superbeast,’ it’s clear that Zombie had gone all out with his influences, be they from horror movies, comics or music. Released in August 1998, the same year that White Zombie split, leaving fans of that band no time to get over their loss, Hellbilly Deluxe appears to pick up right where White Zombie’s final album, 1995 classic Astro Creep 2000: Songs of Love, Destruction and other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head – yep, Rob Zombie has always had a thing for elaborate album titles – left off. READ MORE: Space: 1999 Years 1 & 2: Original Television Soundtrack – Barry Gray & Derek Wadsworth – ReviewĮssential Albums Hellbilly Deluxe: 13 Tales of Cadaverous Cavorting Inside the Spookshow International The great, the good and the not quite as good… White’s work providing a template for Rob’s love of mixing crunchy guitar riffs, industrial beats, horror-themed lyrics and B-movie samples to create music that’s all of his own. Then, up until now and still going strong, as a solo artist.Īpparently, Rob Zombie had been working on solo material even before White Zombie split up, and despite that band dissolution landing a killer blow for lots of metal fans around the world, they needn’t have worried as Zombie’s solo work starts where White Zombie ended. Firstly, for his band White Zombie, that he formed with bassist and then girlfriend Sean Yseult in 1985, ultimately releasing four albums and having a run of success throughout the 90s until the band split up in 1998. But despite some success in all those areas, it is as a musician that Mr Zombie (he legally changed his surname to Zombie in 1996) is most well known. Film maker, actor, comic book writer/artist, music video director. Born Robert Bartleh Cummings on the 12th January 1965 in Massachusetts, United States, Rob Zombie has made quite a name for himself during his 56 years.

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