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When Rob Zombie's first album, Hellbilly Deluxe sold better in its first week than any White Zombie album had managed to do, Zombie dissolved the group to pursue his solo career full-time. Since then, he has continued to explore his obsessions with horror movie shtick and sci-fi schlock, incorporating these themes into instantly accessible Industrial Metal grinders. Throwing himself utterly into his undead persona, Zombie has emerged as alternative music's premier purveyor of heavy, disco-metal grooves that break down the barricade between the mosh pit and the dance floor.
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About Rob Zombie
b. Robert Cummings, 12 January 1966, Haverhill, Massachusetts, USA. The lead vocalist of controversial hard rock band White Zombie delivered his US Top 5 debut in August 1998. Co-produced with Nine Inch Nails and Metallica alumnus Scott Humphrey, the contents would have proved no surprise to Zombie's existing fans, with horror and gore-inspired lyrics predominating and abrasive hard rock the dominant musical motif. Indeed, among the collaborators on the project were White Zombie's drummer John Tempesta.
The album's subtitle, Tales Of Cadaverous Cavorting Inside The Spookshow International, was illustrative of the subject matter. Songs like "Living Dead Girl" and "Return Of The Phantom Monster" said much about the depth of the writer's vision, though some of the more entertaining moments came from the album's employment of old movie dialogue and specially-created spoken word sections. For some, however, Zombie's 50s B-movie fixations had been made redundant by the remorseless rise of Marilyn Manson. Probably the most distinctive feature of the album was the packaging, with illustrations from noted comic artists Basil Gogos, Dan Brereton and Gene Colon. The album was remixed the following year by various members of Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein and Limp Bizkit, by which time White Zombie had split-up.
Zombie's interest in the cinema had previously seen him directing horror-inspired rock videos, and he provided the animation for a sequence in Beavis And Butthead Do America. He wrote and directed the gruesome House Of 1,000 Corpses, which was finally released by the independent Lion's Gate in 2003 after being passed from studio to studio. Despite its torturous path to release, the movie took over $13 million at the US box office.
