Following the belated surprise success of La Sexorcisto, Astro-Creep: 2000 carried the weight of high expectations, something that White Zombie was never familiar with before. Unsurprisingly, White Zombie plays it safe on Astro-Creep, never straying from their white-trash-on-acid metal. While it's undeniably campy, the band genuinely loves the trash they sing about, so they fit right into the tradition of tongue-in-cheek heavy metal bands from Alice Cooper to Kiss. Where those bands relied on songcraft beneath their shtick, White Zombie relies on a full-throttle roar. Borrowing such techniques as distorted vocals and drilling riffs from pseudo-industrial metal like Ministry, the band beefs up their basic sound, making it powerful enough to disguise the lack of solid song structures and memorable riffs. Sonically, Astro-Creep delivers the initial goods, yet it never develops into trash as substantial as "Thunder Kiss '65."
Me neither, I always just assumed it was symptomatic of a zombie deficiency. It's hotter'n the blazes in here, I've got a twelve pack of cold ones in the fridge and no intention to repent. Too bad for the neighbors if they don't wanna hear it; I'm out of here in a month, and I don't like the cuts of their jibs, anyhow... Here's to the walking dead, all of them, but most specifically, Zombie ...
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10. White Zombie - Astro-Creep: 2000 I don't care that White Zombie were the commercial darlings of hard music during this time, these guys were the most original thing in metal at the time. Creating a funky flare that I don't even think Faith No More could conceptualize, Astro-Creep brought the goods, and really made metal [...]
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