White Zombie
Astro-Creep:2000

THE REVIEW

The White Zombie embody an anthem to trash culture. As cult cinema enthusiasts, they produce hallucinatory, grotesque albums filled with irreverent humor and a particular taste for everything that represents horror, especially the B-movies of the '80s.

Led by the eccentric Rob Zombie, a sort of icon somewhere between the macabre and the post-nuclear, they create catchy and intuitive industrial-metal. The first positive note goes to the rich booklet: colorful, almost gaudy, entirely curated by the charismatic frontman who includes his drawings. The visual talent of the crazy Rob is great, adding depth to a distorted, psychedelic, and sick reality, yet always perceived in its burlesque side (I recommend watching his film "House of 1000 Corpses" for more clarity). All the tracks flow more or less with the same ease: the Zombies don't offer particularly juicy riffs (except for the one in Super-Charger Heaven, which I love, very engaging), their music doesn’t have too many pretensions, but the production work is remarkable, especially considering that behind the programming and keyboards is a certain Charlie Clouser (N.I.N.), one shouldn't have too much difficulty imagining the result.

Among the most successful tracks, I must mention the opener "Electric Head pt. 1 (the agony)" with a very catchy chorus, the already mentioned "Super-Charger Heaven", "Blur the Technicolor", and the cybernetic "More Human than Human", in my opinion, the most interesting track of the work. The intro of "Grease Paint and Monkey Brains" is also spot on. It is worth noting that, as in all works of the cultist Rob Zombie, many of the samples present in the various tracks should be cinematic quotes, but not being a fan of films in the language, I am unable to catch them. In conclusion, this Astro-Creep: 2000 is definitely a good album, a well-crafted trash work, that gives its best to a listener attentive to catch its nuances.