Featuring his iconic hits ‘Dragula’, ‘Living Dead Girl’ and ‘Superbeast’, Hellbilly Deluxe cemented Rob Zombie as a hugely successful solo artist with over three million album sales and his first Top 5 album chart position in the Billboard 200.Īmerican Made Music To Strip By was Rob Zombie’s first remix album, released by Geffen Records in 1999. Tying together three of his major loves – classic horror films, hard rock and electronic music – Rob Zombie created and released his debut solo album, Hellbilly Deluxe, in August 1998. To outsiders, the entire schlock enterprise may seem ridiculous or sound monotonous, but even the weak cuts here hit hard and give fans exactly what they want.Open the box up and you’ll find all ten Zombie solo studio and live albums, including three titles available on black vinyl for the first time ever five titles reissued on black vinyl for the first time since their original respective year of release two titles on heavyweight 180g vinyl for the first time and one previously unreleased concert, from the September 2016 Riot Fest, during which Zombie performed the classic White Zombie album, Astro-Creep: 2000, in its entirey for the first time ever.Īlso inside the box is the custom Creeper Robot 8gb USB stick, which offers up every Zombie album featured in the box as 44.1kHz/16-bit uncompressed digital audio files, five high-quality illustration lithos newly commissioned by Rob Zombie (one of which is signed by Zombie), a Zombie-designed turntable mat and microfibre vinyl cleaning cloth, all of which are exclusive to this box set only.Īlso coming on 30 March are six individual album reissues, all on 180g black vinyl ( American Made Music To Strip By, Educated Horses, Hellbilly Deluxe, Spookshow International Live, The Sinister Urge and Zombie Live), and one new live release on LP, CD and digital: Astro-Creep: 2000 Live.

For most listeners, it doesn't matter if Hellbilly Deluxe is technically a White Zombie or Rob Zombie album, since it delivers the goods, arguably even better than Astro-Creep: 2000. Since White Zombie was always his baby, it seems a little strange that he had the need to break away from the group, especially since the album sounds exactly like a White Zombie record, complete with thunderous industrial rhythms, drilling metal guitars, and B-movie obsessions. He did extracurricular animation, managed a band, started a record label, drew a sequence in Beavis & Butt-Head Do America, appeared in films, wrote the script for The Crow 3 (which he planned to direct), and most tellingly of all, he recorded a solo album, Hellbilly Deluxe. Stopping short of breaking up the band, Zombie set out to make sure everyone know that he was the main force in the band, as if there were any doubt in the first place. Just as White Zombie was on the verge of becoming the most popular metal band in the land, Rob Zombie decided he was an auteur.

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