White Zombie "Astro-Creep: 2000 – Songs Of Love, Destruction And Other Synthetic Delusions Of The Electric Head (USA, Geffen Records, GEFD-24806)"

Astro-Creep: 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head is the fourth and final studio album by American heavy metal band White Zombie, released on April 11, 1995, by Geffen Records. The album proved to be their most commercially successful recording, peaking at number six on the Billboard 200 with the aid of the popular hit singles "More Human than Human" and "Super-Charger Heaven". It was the band's only studio album to feature John Tempesta on drums.

The album was highly anticipated due to the surprise success of the band's previous release La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One. Ivan DePrume, the band's long-time drummer, had left the band to start Burningsound studios during their touring sessions for that album. The band later recruited former Exodus and Testament drummer John Tempesta for the recording of this album. The album had help from significant industrial musicians, such as the keyboard work from Charlie Clouser, who had worked with artists like Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein, Marilyn Manson, Killing Joke, and more. They had also hired Terry Date (Deftones, Pantera, Soundgarden) to produce Astro-Creep: 2000 for them. According to J., the album comprises seventy-two track recordings, forty-eight of which are analog and twenty-four being digital recordings. For the album, the band had a much bigger recording budget and more freedom in time.

The entire album took three months to write and another three to record. Writing for the album began in June 1994, shortly after White Zombie finished touring Japan. Recording was scheduled to commence in September 1994, and the album was finished by Christmas 1994.

The album is much heavier than La Sexorcisto and has been called "white-trash-on-acid metal" by Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic. The band also down-tuned the guitars and bass to give it the darker sound that the songs required, going from standard E tuning to dropped C# (1.5 steps below standard E).

Much of the lyrics are also darker and more disturbing than on the previous album, and are arranged more like twisted poetry than La Sexorcisto's pseudo-rap scores, dealing with murder, the undead, blasphemy, and satanic elements.

As with the previous two albums, many of the songs feature snippets of dialogue from horror and cult films including The Omega Man, Shaft, The Haunting, The Curse of Frankenstein and To the Devil a Daughter. The titular refrain of "More Human Than Human" is taken from the 1982 film Blade Runner.

Rob has said he favors this album to the previous one, stating, "I was never that happy with it [La Sexorcisto]. In some respects, it was probably the best thing we could do at the time under the circumstances; and that this record was exactly what we wanted it to sound like."

Astro-Creep: 2000 received generally positive reviews from critics, it is White Zombie's best-selling album, being certified double Platinum by the RIAA and selling over 2,600,000 copies in America since its release. There was also a limited 50,000 pressings of this album on see-through blue vinyl. The album has been certified by CAN platinum. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album and the band's biggest hit, "More Human than Human", nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1996.

To promote the album, music videos for "More Human than Human", "Electric Head Pt. 2 (The Ecstasy)", and a live video for "Super-Charger Heaven" were released. In 1995, "More Human than Human" won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video.

There were also plans to start filming a video for "Blood, Milk and Sky" after Christmas as well as eventually filming a video for every song on the album. However, these plans were scrapped when the band dissolved.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Rob Zombie, Music as indicated.

1. "Electric Head Pt. 1 (The Agony)" Yseult, Yuenger, Tempesta 4:54
2. "Super-Charger Heaven" Yseult, Yuenger, Tempesta 3:37
3. "Real Solution #9" Yseult, Yuenger, Tempesta 4:44
4. "Creature of the Wheel" Yseult, Yuenger 3:25
5. "Electric Head Pt. 2 (The Ecstasy)" Yseult, Yuenger, Tempesta 3:53
6. "Grease Paint and Monkey Brains" Yseult, Yuenger, Tempesta 3:49
7. "I, Zombie" Yseult, Yuenger, Tempesta 3:31
8. "More Human than Human" Yseult, Yuenger 4:28
9. "El Phantasmo and the Chicken-Run Blast-O-Rama" Yseult, Yuenger, Tempesta 4:13
10. "Blur the Technicolor" Yseult, Yuenger 4:09
11. "Blood, Milk and Sky[I]" Yseult, Yuenger, Tempesta 11:21

Total length: 52:01

^ I "Blood, Milk and Sky" contains the hidden track "Where the Sidewalk Ends, the Bug Parade Begins" at 8:45, after 3 minutes of silence. On the digital version, however, the hidden track is its own 2:33 track.

Often referred to simply as "Astro-Creep: 2000". The lengthy title was meant to parody the grunge bands from that time frame who usually used one-word album titles.

This is the first (and only) album without longtime drummer Ivan DePrume.

A music video was made for the song "More Human than Human", which became a highly successful hit single. Videos were also made for Super-Charger Heaven, and Electric Head Pt.2 (The Ecstasy).

The moaning used in "More Human than Human" is from the 1982 post-apocalyptic pornographic film Café Flesh.

This is the band's final album of original material as the following release Supersexy Swingin' Sounds is just a remix of this album.

Track 1 intro movie sample and track 2 movie sample at 2:27 from "To the Devil a Daughter."

Track 2 intro movie sample from "The Haunting" (1963).

Track 3 intro sample is from an interview with Patricia Dianne Krenwinkel of the Manson Family.

Track 4 movie samples from "The Omega Man."

Track 5 movie samples from "Shaft" (1971).

Recording information:

Recorded At – NRG Studios

Mixed At – Larrabee Sound Studios

Mastered At – Sterling Sound

Terry Date – production, recording, mixing

Lamont Hyde – mixing assistant

Ted Jensen – mastering

Wade Norton – recording assistant

Ulrich Wild – recording

White Zombie "La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One (2002 Reissue, Japan, Universal Music K.K., UICY-2004)"

La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One is the third studio album by American heavy metal band White Zombie, released on March 30, 1992, through Geffen Records. The album marked a major artistic and commercial turning point for the band. After the recruitment of guitarist Jay Noel Yuenger, White Zombie was able to successfully embrace the metal sound they had pursued since Make Them Die Slowly (1989), while incorporating groove-based elements into their sound as they evolved away from their roots in punk rock and noise rock. The album was the band's last to feature drummer Ivan de Prume.

The album was a critical and commercial success for White Zombie after the artistic failure of Make Them Die Slowly. La Sexorcisto became the band's first album to chart on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 26 in 1993. The singles "Thunder Kiss '65" and "Black Sunshine" received heavy rotation on rock radio and MTV, the former earning the band their first Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance. The album has been certified two times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the United States. It has since been regarded as one of the greatest heavy metal albums of all time.

The album's sound is primarily groove metal with multiple B-movie samples. Rob Zombie explained he "wanted to keep a groovable dance element in the music", a trait that he found was often absent in metal music of the era. Iggy Pop provided a spoken introduction to the single "Black Sunshine".

In a 2021 interview, Sean Yseult reflected that the band were influenced by rap music during this time, including Ice-T, Run-DMC, LL Cool J, and Public Enemy: "Rob was very intent on merging some of the rhythms and beats of what we were hearing into some of our songs, and it worked well."

Contrary to rumors, a "Devil Music Volume Two" was never planned for recording or release. Almost every song on the album made an appearance on the 1994 video game Way of the Warrior.

La Sexorcisto was a commercial success for White Zombie, climbing up the charts in the US and gaining massive MTV video airplay and mainstream rock radio airplay with "Thunder Kiss '65" and "Black Sunshine". Although released in early 1992, La Sexorcisto did not enter the Billboard 200 until 1993, after the success of "Thunder Kiss '65", which reached number 26 on the Mainstream Rock chart. It was certified Double Platinum by the RIAA, and gold by the CRIA.

White Zombie toured for two years to promote La Sexorcisto. The tour was a critical success and some archived footage of the shows can be seen on the Let Sleeping Corpses Lie DVD. White Zombie began a five-month U.S. tour in April 1992, supporting such bands as My Sister's Machine, Paw, Testament, Pantera, Trouble and Crowbar. In the fall of 1992, the band opened for Danzig on their How the Gods Kill tour in Europe and the United States, and wrapped up the year doing a brief U.S. tour, again supporting Pantera. White Zombie spent most of 1993 and 1994 touring non-stop in support of La Sexorcisto. They toured with Monster Magnet in February and March 1993 and with Anthrax and Quicksand that summer. White Zombie embarked on two more U.S. tours: one with Chemlab and Nudeswirl in the fall of 1993, and another with Prong and The Obsessed in early 1994. The La Sexorcisto tour concluded in May 1994 with four Japanese shows, which were supported by Pantera.

Upon release, La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One received generally favourable critical reviews. Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune called the album a "tuneless but entertaining free-for-all", praising its guitar and sampling arrangements. Similarly, Peter Atkinson of the Record-Journal described it as "Deliberately sloppy, as 'Psychoholic Slag', 'Cosmic Monsters Inc.' and 'Grindhouse (A Go-Go)' indicate, and delightful because of it." Don Kaye of Kerrang! praised the album's overall heaviness, describing the experience of listening to White Zombie as akin to "being trapped alive inside a blurry, scratchy, black and white print of that one horror movie that scared the living shit out of you when you were a kid. Check it out, and you'll begin to understand." Denise Stillie of Metal Forces opined that, in spite of a lack of standout tracks, "the overall power of the album is undeniable".

Retrospective reviews of the album have been widely positive. Jacob N. Lunders of AllMusic claimed that La Sexorcisto "Perhaps [co-defined] the future of heavy metal, [...] nearly [equalling] fellow classics Guns N' Roses's Appetite for Destruction, The Cult's Electric, and Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger in significance". John A. Riley of PopMatters described the album as both an "exemplary metal album" and, noting its heavy use of samples, "an exemplary postmodern collage on par with better regarded non-metal LPs such as Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981) and the Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique (1989)". Chris Krovatin of Kerrang! argued that the album's success proved that, "Even as grunge and alt-rock introduced new levels of vulnerability and introspection to heavy music" in the 1990s, "people still wanted something powerful and fun [...] with La Sexercisto [White Zombie] provided all the druggy, creepy, high-octane heavy metal that fans craved, even if they were too focused on looking disillusioned and thoughtful to admit it." On the eve of the album's 30th anniversary in 2022, MetalSucks called La Sexorcisto “a monumental moment in metal history, an example of how weird, far-out, and fun metal could be at a time where it was shaking on its legs."

In 1995, Raw listed La Sexorcisto as one of the 90 essential albums of the 1990s. In 2002, the album was ranked at number 85 on Hit Parader's list of "Heavy Metal's All-Time Top 100 CDs". In 2004, it was voted as the 195th greatest heavy metal album of all time in Martin Popoff's book of The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time. In 2005, it placed at number 282 on Rock Hard's list of "The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time". In 2016, Loudwire ranked La Sexorcisto at number 89 on its list of the "Top 90 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the 90's". Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 93 on its list of the 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time in 2017; in 2023, the same magazine listed "Thunder Kiss '65" as the 84th greatest metal song of all time.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Rob Zombie; all music is composed by White Zombie.

1. "Welcome to Planet Motherfucker/Psychoholic Slag" 6:21
2. "Knuckle Duster (Radio 1-A)" 0:21
3. "Thunder Kiss '65" 3:54
4. "Black Sunshine" (featuring Iggy Pop) 4:49
5. "Soul-Crusher" 5:07
6. "Cosmic Monsters Inc." 5:13
7. "Spiderbaby (Yeah-Yeah-Yeah)" 5:01
8. "I Am Legend" 5:08
9. "Knuckle Duster (Radio 2-B)" 0:25
10. "Thrust!" 5:04
11. "One Big Crunch" 0:21
12. "Grindhouse (A Go-Go)" 4:05
13. "Starface" 5:02
14. "Warp Asylum" 6:44

Total length: 57:30

Some pressings of the CD incorrectly divide tracks 12 and 13, beginning track 13 at 3:31 of "Grindhouse (A Go-Go)".

Sample list:

"Welcome to Planet Motherfucker/Psychoholic Slag"

• 0:25 – The explosion and sounds of growling is taken from the 1989 anime Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend.
• 1:31 – "Fuckin' kiss me." is Tori Welles, sampled from the first scene of "True Confessions of Tori Welles" (with Tori Welles and Jerry Butler).
• 1:48 – "Now let's move", "but let's take the back door" and the sample right at the end of the song are from the 1965 exploitation film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!.
• 2:40 – "Oh, wow!"/"Cool it." and "You wanna start a rumble?" are taken from the 1958 crime drama film High School Confidential.
• 4:14 – "Do you have to open graves to find girls to fall in love with?" is taken from the 1932 horror film The Mummy.
• 4:35 – "Get up and kill!" is taken from the 1978 zombie film Dawn of the Dead.
• 5:43 – "Hula fast shorts, swing with a gassy chick. Turn on to a thousand joys, smile on what happened. Then check what's gonna happen, you'll miss what's happening. Turn your eyes inside and dig the vacuum. Tomorrow, drag" is Phillipa Fallon performing beat poetry in the 1958 teen film High School Confidential.

"Knuckle Duster (Radio 1-A)"

• 0:02 – "Ahorre, no compre sin visitar Empori..." is taken from a radio ad in Spanish. Translates to "Save, don't buy without visiting Empori..."
• 0:07 – "We know how fast we can go" is taken from the 1965 cult film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
• 0:17 – "These are the facts as we know them. There is an epidemic of mass murders being committed by a virtual army of unidentified assassins" is taken from the 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead during a radio broadcast.
• 0:17 – The screaming in the background (sans falling lumber) is from the first scene of "True Confessions of Tori Welles" (with Tori Welles and Jerry Butler), approximately 10 minutes in.

"Thunder Kiss '65"

• 1:28 – "You're all shook up, aren't you baby? I never try anything. I just do it. Wanna try me?" is taken from the 1965 exploitation film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

"Black Sunshine"

• 3:25 – "I work on this baby the same way, trying to get maximum performance" is taken from the 1965 exploitation film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

"Soul-Crusher"

• 0:00 – "Drop it, buster!" is taken from the 1958 crime drama film High School Confidential

"Cosmic Monsters Inc."

• 0:00 – "Meanwhile, behind the façade of this innocent-looking bookstore" is taken from the "Zelda the Great" episode of 1966 Batman television series.
• 1:26 – "You're all shook up, aren't you baby?" is taken from the 1965 exploitation film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
• 3:20 – "They come from the bowels of hell..." is taken from the trailer for the 1959 science fiction film Plan 9 from Outer Space
• 4:16 – "The only thing square about this world are the cats what live in it!" is taken from the 1958 crime drama film High School Confidential

"Spiderbaby (Yeah-Yeah-Yeah)"

• 0:00 – The bell sounds at the beginning of the song are from the 1988 horror film Hellbound: Hellraiser II
• 2:23 – The ominous chanting that listeners hear is in fact the score from the 1976 horror film The Omen
• 4:00 – The Arabic chanting is taken from The Exorcist

"Knuckle Duster (Radio 2-B)"

• 0:00 – "Now, what we have to ask is why is it that God has admonished us to hate evil? Well, first of all, God loves ..." from a sermon by Atlanta pastor, Dr. Charles Stanley.
• 0:09 – "Y cuando tu vuelvas.." Daniel Santos – "Como se van las noches"
• 0:14 – "... And strangled them and finally dismembered their bodies"
• 0:20 – "homelessness and all that ..." sample are the words of the American radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
• 0:21 – "And now, the voice you've been waiting for ..."

"Thrust!"

• 0:00 – The speaking at the introduction of this song is taken from the 1989 anime Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend
• 1:50 – "It has been established..." sample is taken from the 1968 zombie film Night of the Living Dead

"One Big Crunch"

• 0:00 – The music in the background is from the 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead.
• 0:01 – "Only parts of the corpse had been removed" is from the 1974 horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
• 0:10 – "He steps to the water and plunges in, making far more impression on his skull than on the lady" is from a 1950s teen instructional swimming film.

"Starface"

• 0:00 – "One. One is the beginning..." and "Oh Herbert, you are stiff!" samples from the beginning and end of the song are taken from the 1969 episode of Star Trek: The Original Series entitled "The Way to Eden"
• 0:18 – "X minus 5 seconds..." sample is taken from the 1950 science fiction film Rocketship X-M
• 2:27 – In the background there is an eerie jingle playing; this is from 1979's Phantasm. This sound effect was used earlier as the shuttlecraft interior sound effects throughout the run of the aforementioned Star Trek: The Original Series. (On the album Star Trek: Sound Effects from the Original TV Soundtrack, it is Track 69—do a search for "shuttlecraft interior" on YouTube for confirmation.)

"Warp Asylum"

• 6:13 – ""Thank you so very much! God bless you all. Have a ball, and goodnight." Near the end part of "Let's Do It," a track on "Jayne Mansfield Busts Up Las Vegas"
• 6:23 – "A few of these sentences have already begun to take root in your subconscious mind, haven't they? If you play the record a few more times, you'll be amazed at how easily you have begun to understand." (source unknown)

Recording information:

Mastered at Masterdisk, NYC.

Recorded May 1991 at 321 Studios, NYC.

Kristin Callahan – photography

David Carpenter – assistant engineer

Alison Dyer – photography

Michael Golob – cover art, art direction

Andy Wallace – production, engineering, mixing

Howie Weinberg – mastering

Various Artists "Nativity in Black: A Tribute to Black Sabbath (Japan, Sony Records, SRCS 7488)"

Nativity in Black: A Tribute to Black Sabbath is a series of two Black Sabbath tribute albums, released in 1994 and 2000 respectively. The albums feature various heavy metal groups performing cover versions of Black Sabbath songs in tribute to the band.

All of the tracks featured on the Nativity in Black albums cover material strictly from the band's 1970s heyday with vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. The title is derived from a widespread yet incorrect assumption surrounding the title of the Black Sabbath song "N.I.B.".

The band Bullring Brummies featured Black Sabbath founding members Geezer Butler and Bill Ward, along with vocalist Rob Halford, Obsessed/Saint Vitus guitarist Scott "Wino" Weinrich, and Fight guitarist Brian Tilse. Their cover of "The Wizard" on the first album is their only official recording, with the musicians coming together specifically for this recording.

The live recording of "War Pigs" by Faith No More was previously included on the band's live album, Live at the Brixton Academy.

1000 Homo DJs' version of "Supernaut" was originally released as a 12" single in 1990.

Pantera was originally supposed to appear on the first album with their recording of Planet Caravan but was left off. Instead, that song appeared on their 1994 release Far Beyond Driven

Biohazard was featured in a music video for the song After Forever which was directed by Parris Mayhew of Cro-Mags and produced by Drew Stone

The album was certified Gold by the RIAA on 4 December 2000. Bob Chiappardi of Concrete Marketing was executive producer for the album. Megadeth's cover of "Paranoid" received a Grammy nomination in 1995 for 'Best Metal Performance'.

All tracks are written by Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward

Nativity in Black track listing

1. "After Forever" (originally released on Master of Reality) Biohazard 5:46
2. "Children of the Grave" (originally released on Master of Reality) White Zombie 5:50
3. "Paranoid" (originally released on Paranoid) Megadeth 2:32
4. "Supernaut" (originally released on Black Sabbath, Vol. 4) 1000 Homo DJs with Al Jourgensen 6:39
5. "Iron Man" (originally released on Paranoid) Ozzy Osbourne with Therapy? 5:26
6. "Lord of This World" (originally released on Master of Reality) Corrosion of Conformity 6:25
7. "Symptom of the Universe" (originally released on Sabotage) Sepultura 4:15
8. "The Wizard" (originally released on Black Sabbath) Bullring Brummies with Geezer Butler and Rob Halford 5:01
9. "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" (originally released on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath) Bruce Dickinson with Godspeed 5:36
10. "N.I.B." (originally released on Black Sabbath) Ugly Kid Joe 5:28
11. "War Pigs (Live)" (originally released on Paranoid) Faith No More 7:02
12. "Black Sabbath" (originally released on Black Sabbath) Type O Negative 7:45

Total length: 67:42

Japanese version bonus tracks

1. "St.Vitus Dance" (originally released on Black Sabbath, Vol. 4) Cathedral 4:52
2. "Wheels of Confusion" (originally released on Black Sabbath, Vol. 4) Cathedral 5:31

Subsequent standard clear jewel case version.

Comes with revised obi strip(without red bubble on top indicating "special case") and has tray liner/backing sheet.

Has 2 Japan only bonus tracks (13 & 14).

White Zombie "Supersexy Swingin' Sounds (Germany, Geffen Records, GED 24976)"

Supersexy Swingin' Sounds is a remix album by White Zombie. It was released through Geffen Records in 1996 and was the band's final release. The album consists of remixes of tracks from their previous release, Astro Creep 2000, except "I'm Your Boogie Man" by KC and the Sunshine Band.

The Walmart and Kmart clean version of the album depict the cover model (Merci Montello) in a blue bikini rather than completely nude.

Tracklist:

1. Electric Head Pt. 2 (Sexational After Dark Mix) 04:58
2. More Human than Human (Meet Bambi in the King's Harem Mix) 04:18
3. I, Zombie (Europe in the Raw Mix) 03:57
4. Grease Paint and Monkey Brains (Sin Centers of Suburbia Mix) 04:14   
5. Blur the Technicolor (Poker from Stud to Strip Mix) 05:14   
6. Super-Charger Heaven (Adults Only Mix) 05:17  
7. El Phantasmo and the Chicken-Run Blast-o-Rama (Wine, Women and Song Mix) 03:58
8. Blood, Milk and Sky (Miss September Mix) 04:47
9. Real Solution #9 (Mambo Mania Mix) 04:51
10. Electric Head Pt. 1 (Satan in High Heels Mix) 04:02  
11. I'm Your Boogie Man (KC and the Sunshine Band cover) (Sex on the Rocks Mix) 04:48

Time:  50:24

Astro-Creep 2000 Remix Album.

The album was originally released with a naked girl on the cover. Though, because of mega retail stores (like Wal-Mart) refusing to sell the CD, Geffen Records decided to create an alternative "moral" cover with the girl wearing a bikini.

Recording information:

Recorded At – Bliss Studios

Mixed At – Turtle Tone Studios

Remixed At – PCP Labs

Mastered At – Precision Mastering

Release date: August 13th, 1996.

Issued in a jewel case, with foldout booklet.

Sticker on jewel case reads:

"White Zombie

GED 24976

The Astro-Creep Remixes".

Tracks 4 & 11 remixed at P.C.P. Labs

Track 8 recorded at Bliss Studios

Mixed at Turtletone Studios

Mastered at Precision Mastering, Los Angeles, CA

Published by WB Music Corp./Psychohead Music ASCAP except "I'm Your Boogie Man" published by Harrick Music Inc./Longitude Music Co. BMI

© ℗ 1996 Geffen Records, Inc.

Distributed by the local BMG company, a unit of BMG Entertainment.

Made in the EC.