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New York in the second half of the eighties. A filthy individual roams the nocturnal streets of the "Big Apple."
This Robert Bartleh Cummings, known as Rob Zombie: his look doesn't go unnoticed, an insane hybrid of a zombie, a vagrant, and a low-grade horror movie character. Dirty and endless dreads held together by a grimy top hat (like Slash, to be clear), military boots a few sizes too big. A post-nuclear outfit that perfectly matches the music of the band he puts together.
The White Zombie arrive at their second record release still completely unknown; in total anonymity. But they have an avalanche of ideas and after firing the original guitarist, they recruit John Ricci and release "Make Them Die Slowly" (a most fitting title!!). It's March 1989; produced by a certain Bill Laswell (not just any producer...), the work stands out for its caustic, deep, guttural sound. Sabbath-like with proto-industrial remnants. Hard and Heavy tainted with noisy scraps.
And the shock is guaranteed.
The work, succeeding completely, aims to be the emaciated photograph of a scene just getting started: the raw contamination between post-punk from the U.S. Atlantic coast, noise, and black metal (and let's add Prong and Helmet for consistency and "weight" to my writing delirium). The visionary result exceeds all expectations, even those of the White Zombie themselves. A dramatic and equally devastating sound rendering; an auditory hurricane unfolding across all forty minutes. Minutes played in a primitive manner; a powerful impact with no hint of virtuosity. They just want to cause harm and create havoc; starting from the slums where the album was born.
It's the seven minutes of the concluding "Godslayer" that testify to the madness, the gigantic horror erected by Rob, John, Sean, and Ivan: a dangerously cacophonous crossroads that combines Stooges, Slayer, and Sonic Youth. A hysterical, wan embrace; never heard before...DISASTER BLASTER...
.(..To hell with White Christmas...)
Diabolos Rising 666.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Demonspeed (05:22)
Raw deal institution
Wreck that I call myself
City slam penetration
Play it like a fool
Need born invention
Puts the war in your face
Payback time execution
Demon speed crackdown
Compute the kill
Blackmarket war
Damnation sings
Brain waves roar
Escape the pain
In a pit of power
Deep sixer sleep
Like a devil flower
Raw deal institution
Wreck that I call myself
City slam penetration
Play it like a fool
Need born invention
Puts the war in your face
Payback time execution
Demon speed crackdown
Give the world
Blood syphony
How low is your
False sypathy
Justice claws
A death horizon
Freak-zone flesh
Maggot man rising
I am your satisfaction
I am your memory
I am your suffocation
I am your sanity
Demon speed too fast for you
Cry in the night
So lonely
Obsession
The only
Money talks
You listen
Hungry game
Submission
Demon speed too fast for you
Innocent
The big time
Avenging
My mind
Generate
A smooth gain
Live in fear
With no pain
Demon speed too fast for you
Fade away in the silence
Speed racer baby is
Lost in love
I see a blood sucker soul
Come on baby push to shove
Squeeze a drop of mercy
Place yourself outside of life
I see a blood sucker soul
Come on baby push to shove
05 Acid Flesh (05:31)
Great white eyes
Bleed away the
Trembling sound
No more time
Body spasm deep
And passing
Acid flesh
Human river stepping
Stones of
Love and death
A living legend's legacy yeah!
Hustler of the dead
Revolution steals the world
And turns the sky to red
Home sweet hellhole to the
Last man on earth
See what the face of evil
Is truely worth yeah!
Turn your eyes
To the sky
A corpse of blue
Night is time
Growing strong
With every moment
Acid flesh
Chaos pulsing
In my viens yeah!
Hell house temptation
Walk on to salvation
Cold steel-pain trust
Hot blood-forever lust
Raw horror make cheap thrills
Twitch the nerve get your fill
Razor make clean cut
River red so what
Gut twisting holiday
Skin dripping pay to play
Stain is blood
Without a doubt
Godslayer action
Eye to fist
Fist to eye
Dig the war anyway
Killing time
Killing time
Bending cracks up
In my mind
Bite down
Bite down
Money burns
In my hands
I can't seem to
Get enough
Hammerhead
Says to you
Love is the one
Thing money can buy
Bite down
Bite down
Down
Down
07 Godslayer (07:14)
Listen
To the horror of satan sea
Listen
To the guns of superman
Well I say
Return to a platinum stranger
Hooked on
The enemy under your skin
Panic
Despite the heart of stone
Doomsday
For all the beautiful people
Hey I know what I want now
And it's right in front of me
And I know how to get it
The good things in life are
Always free
Landscape of greed and hate
It keeps me going
Victim of what's inside you
Outside of truth
Only hurts now when I laugh
Live by fire
Forever is a long long time
War is hell
Hanging man twitches in agony
Death rattle shakes itself free
Raise you hand to the mountain
Drown in your own bloody fountain
Shadows become longer the sun
Burns down
Don't need to look I am found
Lucky
If you still remember your name
Freedom
Visions of a showdown
Blood is
Boiling in the midnight sun
Sizzling
Like the enemy under your skin
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