Rob Zombie
Hellbilly Deluxe (Parental Advisory)
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MOG Editorial Review
A terrific album for mass zombie-killing. Especially If that mass zombie-killing is also a big drunken dance party. And what else screams Halloween like killing zombies, while partying? After striking out on his own from White Zombie, but before becoming a Platinum-selling metal god and director of over-the-top, gore-drenched horror flicks like House of 1000 Corpses, Rob Zombie released the blood-stained “Hellbilly Deluxe.” It’s one throbbing chunk of darkness still, the product of a horror imagination about to be let loose on a new decade of multimedia. Next time you’re stuck on a rooftop with a small band of survivors, the head of someone you bought groceries from only yesterday now in your rifle sights, crack open a can of brew, press play on “Dragula,” “Living Dead Girl,” or “Meet the Creeper” and let ‘er rip.
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AMG Review of Hellbilly Deluxe
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
All Music GuideJust as White Zombie was on the verge of becoming the most popular metal band in the land, Rob Zombie decided he was an auteur. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.







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