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Rating: After their underground beginnings (the first two albums went fairly unnoticed but with some notable elements), the White Zombie of the charismatic leader Rob Cummings (also known as Rob Zombie) broke into the mainstream with their third release "La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol 1".
Musically, the rich and original mix offered by White Zombie during their unfortunately short career (and continued in the singer's solo career) sees a moment of transition in this episode. From the initial noise formulas of the early productions (quite challenging for the general public, it must be said), the sound is shaping towards what will be the psycho-industrial rock/metal of the next album (the wonderful Astro-Creep 2000), but it retains strong rock influences, while technological samples from horror films become central.
Being a transitional album certainly does not prevent it from being a cornerstone (and masterpiece) of the '90s. The freshness of the sounds, the originality of the solutions, the captivating voice, and an intensely groovy rhythm section make songs like "Thunder Kiss '65" (a true anthem), "Spiderbaby (Yeah Yeah Yeah)", and the magnificent "Black Sunshine" (featuring Iggy Pop as a guest on the album and in the splendid video) just to name a few.
The album also features interludes focused on the previously mentioned samples, like "Knuckle Duster" (which introduces the syncopated "Thrust!" supported by edgy riffs) or "One Big Crunch". Other truly remarkable tracks include the psychotic groove of the opening track "Welcome to Planet Motherfucker - Psychoholic Slag" and the closing "Warp Asylum", which is heavily influenced by Black Sabbath.
In conclusion, "La Sexorcisto" receives the highest score for the originality of its formula at the time and because, together with the subsequent "Astro-Creep 2000" and the first chapter of his solo career "Hellbilly Deluxe Vol. 1," it represents one of the compositional peaks of this eccentric and skilled American artist (praise also goes to his bandmates).
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Welcome to Planet Motherfucker / Psychoholic Slag (06:21)
Woven in the surface a premonition of a land erupting
a sparkling occasion of a city crashdown! overhead
Revolv'n in a whirlpool a drag-o-rama walk'n on the
sidewalk so let me see ya howl'n through the keyhole
"god damn, swept away" she shouted - she love it - get
in away yeah! I concentrate the midnight without the
benefit of ceremony - whoever said, "The one who strips
your soul is the one that got away" a weather-beaten
angel descending to embrace the cemetery - got love - so
mystifying "god damn, swept away" she shouted - she
love it - get in away yeah! she shouted - she love it - get
in away - yeah! voodoo beat on
the mind the digs too deep to find
something has got to give, man
[psych-out] racketeer or star you
are just what you are, don't play
the misty, baby! [get you] into a
river sky electro nation cry "i need
another, now" drift beyond the
sleeping the moon is shift'n
shadows on her figure - swamptime
locomotion "i can't take it,
anymore!" sunlight through the
shutters illuminating moment to
the moment buzz a halo over "god
damn, swept away" she shouted -
she love it - get in away - yeah -
planet pretty kill - motherfucker hang me on the
thrills - psychoholic slag tomorrow is another drag
[yeah] picnic in the homeland - like a jesus super-star
yeah! kiss me deadly, baby [baby] i know who you are
[come on] planet pretty kill - motherfucker hang me on
the thrills yeah! no small heaven [haven] i got the left
hand of the keeper - meet me in st. louis "god" a one-
way ticket's cheaper yeah! time-travel i'm walk'n
[walk'n] i got a white line zombie fever [fever] yeah!
time bomb the hero [hero] yeah get down!!
07 Spiderbaby (Yeah-Yeah-Yeah) (05:02)
Yeah, I knew I hit the edge when I saw the spider -
Jukebox paranoid insider - Blaze they gaze - Amaze at the
razor Stranlehold L-O-V-E laze or Power Breakdown -
Get on it!!! Stateside crazy - Get wit' it!! Sista told ya - you
ain't nothin' - Yeah - Yeah - Yeah [Yeah] Shadow make a
move and it goes right through me - Gun Styl'n planet -
Do me!! Sling the ring they sting on the outside - Chrome
crank'em 'til they're singing rawhide - Power
Breakdown - Get on it!! Stateside crazy - Get wit' it!! Sista
told ya - you ain't nothin' Yeah - Yeah - yeah - Well
deep-dish on the body - Spinout sugar - devil Wayward
road of losing 6-pack'n the evil - Well macabro on the
body Roulette blast a roddin' Reptile rhythm voodoo
Journey to the tide and...
10 Thrust! (05:06)
Thrust in deep there are no limitations - Wing shaped
constellations everywhere now - Creep, babe, creep your
life's a suicide and I said "I'm gonna ride it" She don't care
now -Yeah! Maybe - the night ride gonna bleed - Yeah!
Maybe - this is what ch'all need! Sink'n deep into your
destination dig the demolition everywhere, now - Creep,
babe, creep into your ring 'o' fire - Burned out on the
wire - She don't care, now - Yeah! Maybe - the night ride
gonna bleed - Yeah! Maybe - this is what ch'all need! Open
The darkness an hour later to the minute (moment) move
under the guilty she went deep into the corner - Snap dog
city hypnotize and break the mercury - Rig test - Oil inject
freak hallucination - Shot through the backdoor buzz a
whirling locomotion West straight to another Through
the sea of love - Life on the line - Still in time - You will find
"She has gone away." Don't ask why - super sky - live or
die "She has gone away." Figure this - no more, sis - Spanish
kiss. "She has gone away." Thrust
into a diamond generation -
Dexceleration everywhere - Up from
hell a missile to the moon and zero
to the 3 and 4 and 5 and Yeah! Maybe
- the night ride gonna bleed - Yeah!
Maybe - this is what y'all need! How
fast can you really move me Come
on, come on, come on, come on, yeah!
A ritual electro-nation - yow!!
13 Starface (05:03)
September in the rain - her sweat come a frozen onto
my skin - Eliminate the outerspace and come and get I'm
swing'n down it again - Synchronize me - fall away - I
believe that - I wicked on the way look alive now! Yeah!
Stars explode my eyes - Well, "I been down a long time"
Days crawl away and die "forever is a long time!"
Remember howling "crazy" like at the moonlight
superfly - A penetrating powerman "O baby" I'm painted
in the sky - Iron fister - on the
hour / paralyzing demon - flower
- Yeah! Stars explode my eyes - "I
been down a long time" Days crawl
away and die "forever is a long
time!" Surround the pain the love's
insane - got a pseudo-systematic
gain Careening through the neon
side - a horizontal "mind collide" -
Harum scarum holiday - Double
deal'n on the ones who say
"collapse me with a powerblast"
Groung to zero roll'n fast - Ride
the glide - treasure slide - got a
wooden symbol soul inside - "Freeze"
the heart - a razor tear pack she
doesn't care - If the pillow jacob sky snatch the pad I
don't deny - Been a long time - been a long time - Step into
the wind a watch a red girl come alive She scream'n to
the world "I diggin' on the fact that you will not
survive!" Radiate me - walk away - You shook the devil's
dig deep hand today - Yeah! Stars explode my eyes, Well,
"I been down a long time" Days crawl away and die,
"Forever is a long time!" A million miles an hour - a
million miles an hour - a million miles an hour - let's
get inside!
14 Warp Asylum (06:45)
Been down yeah! Well I look down and my mind blows
away - Deep in the darkness "illuminate" Beyond a
million miles - Something slid up to my head Circling
around my eye - eye - eyes And I said, "Smooth operator"
sez: Get up - get up - and outta here, Smooth operator
sez: Yeah! Lights - band the traffic thunder two blocks
west of the rest - Tore away the bottom and saw life is a
test - Beyond 1,000,000 miles - Well I ricocheted through
my head - One hand kill the other's cra-a-crazy -
What she said - Smooth operator sez: Get up! get up! and
outta here, Smooth operator sez: Yeah!!! Sail into night-
ghost ship a tripping - Struck by the plunge something to
see - yeah - Bootleg the girl - she is a looka - Pure is the
fear that breaks away - Straight to the sun I am a
walk'n state of the art - all that I see [Yeah] New gods
move whipp'n the shore and dash
on the reef - surf city... I walk
alone and stare, man, right in the
sun - Tear-jerk asylum and cemetery
run - Well, how'd I ever get this far
man? Smooth curves switchback the
sweat - Underneath the body, baby -
where what you see is what you -
see and what you get
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