White Zombie - Thunder Kiss '65

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djsynrgy@reddit

I'm more of a Black Sunshine kinda guy.

But really, it was the second album that I fell in love with. La Sexorcisto is.. fine.. But Astro Creep 2000 was ahead of it's time. Super Charger Heaven, Real Solution #9, More Human Than Human, Blood Milk & Sky..

Man.. I still wish Rob never went solo. But, I have to give a hand to the guy for making a career out of "yeah" as a lyric. 😆

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Lord-Sinestro@reddit

Astro Creep and La Sexorcisto I love equally but for completely different moods. Astro Creep I’ll play to death when I’m listening to faster tempos like Static-X or Fear Factory. La Sexorcisto is for my more psychedelic days like when Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats or Electric Wizard are in heavy rotation. Both albums though still hold up extremely well to this day.

One of my best friends grew up on hip hop but has been getting into metal for the past few years going to see metal bands live with me (Zombie, Manson, Slipknot, Thrill Kill Kult, etc). I threw on La Sexorcisto while driving to our last concert (TKK) and he was enthralled. Both albums definitely fall under “no skips”.

And I agree, I wish Rob never went solo 😆 I enjoy Rob Zombie albums but nothing hits like White Zombie.

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djsynrgy@reddit

I got a lot of mileage out of La Sexorcisto before Astro Creep came out, but afterwards it just couldn't stack up. I'm not turning my nose up at it at all; it's a unique vibe and I totally get why it still lands with many listeners. I just tend to find myself wanting it to be more "pedal to metal" than it is, I guess.

Caveat: With a background in guitar, I tend to approach metal-ish from a "riffs above all" viewpoint. My teens were largely spent in my room playing along to my music collection, and I never quite had as much fun jamming with LS as I did AC. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Conversely, I've tried to get into TKK a few times, but always ended up disappointed that there isn't more in the catalog (AFAIK) that hits like that one song from The Crow soundtrack. 😆

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Lord-Sinestro@reddit

To each their own, I was a drummer so I enjoy the beats a little better on LS. I think personally I got burned out on AC faster than LS.

TKK is an acquired taste but After the Flesh from the Crow soundtrack is their most metal track. Their discography skews way more towards go-go or lounge music than metal. Try Confessions of a Knife album for their most metal feel. Confessions and 13 Above the Night are my favorite albums of theirs. You are definitely not the first to wish they sounded more like After the Flesh. They still kill it live

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meloncoral@reddit

Recently dusted off my copy of Astro Creep 2000, & am impressed how well it’s held up.

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djsynrgy@reddit

That album kinda changed the (rock/metal) game, in terms of incorporating samples and synths. Granted there were industrial acts who'd broken through a bit, but this was a rock band doing it.

I don't love everything (or even most of) what he's done over the years but I absolutely tip my hat to Rob for being a real artist with dedication to his vision. Between Astro Creep 2000, his animation for the Beavis and Butthead movie, painting the set of Headbanger's Ball, and stepping into film direction, it's hard not to admire his drive - even as I actively hope to never hear Dragula (or any of his solo stuff) again.

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BrewMan13@reddit

It definitely has more variety, and still love it even though I like more extreme stuff now.

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djsynrgy@reddit

Word.

In RE: more extreme stuff, I dunno how y'all still hang. 😆

I was deep. Like, playing guitar in a band and covering these artists while writing originals and playing shows and the whole deal. But by the early '00s, the movement had left me behind. I just couldn't enjoy that kind of vibe anymore; like all the musicality went straight out of the window in favor of blast beats and Cookie Monster vocals. I (still) like my metal epic, and triumphant; not necessarily bleak, angry, and off-putting. I can tolerate some gutteral screaming in a band when it's the exception to the rule, but when it's the rule, I'm out.

But some of my buddies never let go; they just kept going deeper. As I get older, that energy just feels bad, to me. Pig Destroyer, or Sephallic Carnage, or Priopism, or [insert any gross medical malady here..] is a bridge too far, and I'm just over here permanently recycling Steve Vai's Final Guitar Solo from Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. 😆

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BrewMan13@reddit

Yeah, I just kept going deeper. Rough vocals don't phase me in the least lol. Still go to concerts and all that too.

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Cryptic1911@reddit

This whole album is a fucking banger.. like 10/10 album for me. Some of the best and most original riffs ever

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Lord-Sinestro@reddit

I’d put the album up there with Electric Wizard’s Dopethrone in terms of quality and replay value. Timeless.

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NoLimitHonky@reddit

When people were sending me Metallica and Nirvana, I was listening to this, it was, and still is, such great music.

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RoyalPuzzleheaded259@reddit

My first concert was Rob Zombie opening for Korn back in ‘99. Rob had an amazing set and blew the roof off the place. When Korn came out they just couldn’t match the energy. Rob was running all over the stage, bikini girls in cages suspended above the stage. 30 foot flames shooting up behind the band. Then Korn comes out. Just stands there and plays. They sounded really good. But they had zero stage presence.

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BrewMan13@reddit

Same! I was in college and flunked a calculus test the next day lol.

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Typical_Size_6559@reddit

That tour was nuts. In Lafayette Rob barfed on one of the GoGo dancers mid set. The pit for Korn rivaled Slayer. I was super scared, but just went with it.

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Hostile_Pineapple@reddit

Remember how big The Creeper was? Like a demented Johnny 5

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Tall_guy82@reddit

Hell yeah, I saw that tour too. His set was nuts!

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coaxialology@reddit

The guy I had the hugest crush on in junior high was a massive White Zombie fan. Hope you're out there living your best life, Cole.

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Dog_Baseball@reddit

La sexorsisto devil music volume 1

Whole record still hits hard. Good stuff

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OldNorthBridge@reddit

Came out my senior year of high school. Still one of my absolute favorite albums. Coolest person ever to come from Haverhill, MA.

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therealpopkiller@reddit

The first CD I ever bought

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Dog_Baseball@reddit

I had the tape

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therealpopkiller@reddit

User name checks out

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stereoscopic_@reddit

Black Sunshine with the Iggy Pop intro.

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Warrior-Cook@reddit

I still have to grin at some of the riffs and chugs on that album...it's like a haiku of groove and tone.

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Florflok@reddit

I don't try anything, I just do it...Wanna try me?

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KingdomOfFawg@reddit

This meme is hilarious. "Rob Zombie looks like the ghost of Randy the Macho Man Savage."

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Independent-Lie-9798@reddit

Saw them live in 1995 at the age of 15. Crowd surfed and came out of there with a boot print on my chest but had the best time!!

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Epicardiectomist@reddit

My first concert was Pantera and White Zombie in '96.

I did the vocals for a cover of this song in probably 2002. It was so much fucking fun.

My biggest issue with White Zombie is that I've never heard or seen a live performance where Rob doesn't sound like absolute shit. The sound he makes on recording is never matched live. As a vocalist, this bothers me, and I'm skeptical of how much is actually him vs. studio magic.

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Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit

Soul crusher (same album) intro riff is still one of the best riffs I've ever heard

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HeywoodJaBlessMe@reddit

Thunderkiss into Black Sunshine is peak

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Aol_awaymessage@reddit

This is my 8 year old niece’s favorite band and song. She’s so weird and I love her for it

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hiro111@reddit

The entire album this is on absolutely kicks ass.

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I_Lick_Your_Butt@reddit

Bought that album when I was 13 and it's still amazing.

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jcstrat@reddit

I was just listening to a Rob Zombie album I had missed from 2011. This is relatable. He played a big part in my youth.

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Safe-Mortgage6919@reddit

The Pit Bulls…..if you know you know

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TheLastBoat@reddit

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Safe-Mortgage6919@reddit

I see Tommy Dreamer, too cold scorpio… cw Anderson?

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TheLastBoat@reddit

I went to a show, sat in the front row and left with a piece of a broken table that Sabu and Saturn went through. I’ve got Tommy, Raven, Pitbull 2, Bubba Ray, Saturn, Brian Lee, 2 Cold, Sandman, Joel Gertner and New Jack.

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xt0rt@reddit

New Jack was one crazy motherfucker.

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Safe-Mortgage6919@reddit

Pretty sweet!

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TheLastBoat@reddit

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Safe-Mortgage6919@reddit

An awesome piece of history.

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Neto34@reddit

ECW ECW ECW ECW

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Safe-Mortgage6919@reddit

Best company ever

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CaptainDipshiat@reddit

this is guaranteed to make me accelerate in whatever vehicle i am currently operating

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noonesaidityet@reddit

Then you hit the nitrous when Iggy says "This is Black Sunshine".

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graveybrains@reddit

Hands gripping the wheel, his knuckles went white with desire. The wheels of his Mustang exploding on the highway like a slug from a .45.

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josephsleftbigtoe@reddit

True death. 400 horsepower of maximum performance, piercing the night. This is Black Sunshine.

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Eziekiel23_20@reddit

Back when 400 hp was a lot. Miss those days.

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Typical_Size_6559@reddit

True, though, that’s a different tune.

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noonesaidityet@reddit

Yes, the track immediately after Thunderkiss 65.

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Adrasteia-One@reddit

Oh man, that was one of the very first hard rock/metal songs I ever attempted to learn on bass at 13. Song is still a real banger!

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M3talhead@reddit

That. Drive. Slaps.

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flabergasterer@reddit

I can’t drive 55 slows me down after this one

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Eziekiel23_20@reddit

Back when 400 hp was a lot. Miss those days.

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AjaxIsSoccer@reddit

I'm not sure what was playing on the radio the first time I had sex. (It might have been Jewel.) However, the first time I ever went to a strip club, THIS song was playing loudly and I will always remember it for that!

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aspect-of-the-badger@reddit

I wonder how much bad music is popular because of women's butts.

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hjeff51@reddit

I remember being in a Sam Goody and saw this cassette and pointed it out to my father. Obviously, I was exposed to this through that damn Bevis & Butthead show. My dad said no and said it looked satanic. Moved to a new town and started talking with a new classmate about White Zombie. He had the cassette and I borrowed it. And you goddamn right I dubbed it on a TDK SA90. He's been my best friend going on 30 years now.

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LardLad00@reddit

Nothing will ever match the bonding over someone who can lend you an album and expand your musical horizons just like that.

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chunkerton_chunksley@reddit

Ha, I put on their Astrocreep 2000 album at the gym today. WZ, Korn, Marylin Manson, my weightlifting play list has had some songs in the rotation for a quarter of a century now. lol

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meatsaballz@reddit

Did anyone else first see this on Beavis and Butthead?

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panteragstk@reddit

This and the Prison Sex video.

It's a Tool song. Hope that's clear. No pun intended.

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mtron32@reddit

I remember a local radio station had rock offs where the best rock song would get played at 9, black sunshine ran all week. I was hooked

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karaloveskate@reddit

Yep. Rob even thanked Mike Judge for it. He said his music career was dead in the water until he was featured on Beavis and Butthead.

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djsynrgy@reddit

I think he also got a boost when they had him live-painting the set of Headbanger's Ball for a few episodes, then kept that art for the remainder of the show, IIRC.

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Ignignokt73@reddit

I saw them just after they blew up on B&B in August 1992 opening for Pantera, then again in March 1993 at a small theater in a college town. At that show, we were in the front row, right side of the stage and could slap hands with Sean mostly, sometimes Rob. They played almost all of La Sexorcisto. Monster Magnet opened and their light show consisted of what looked like an overhead projector with different colored lenses. Such a fun concert!

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imhereforthevotes@reddit

This whole album, what the kids say? STOMPS.

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Dazzling-Emu-6054@reddit

Just found my old CD last weekend!

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foozebox@reddit

I feel like this band will be lost to the ages. I still know this song note perfect on guitar as we did play it in our 7th grade talent show.

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graveybrains@reddit

The only reason I own that album is because I used to collect discarded cassette tapes I saw on the side of the road.

No regrets.

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Big_Difference_9978@reddit

I got to jam with Jay from white zombie

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djsynrgy@reddit

His signature Ibanez Iceman was one of my favorite guitars (to look at; never got to try one.) I wish they would do a reissue of it.

And all these years later, to the best of my knowledge, they never made another one anything like it; it was the only neck-through Iceman with a locking tremolo. The rest have all been more modeled after Paul Stanley (tune-o-matic stop-tail) or Meshuggah (extended scale, string-through fixed bridge.)

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Big_Difference_9978@reddit

Iceman is a cool guitar for sure!

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One-Earth9294@reddit

This album is one of the greatest of all time and did a lot of informing my future tastes.

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0peRightBehindYa@reddit

This album is still heavy in my rotation. I love every aspect of it: the driving guitars, Sean's funky bass riffs, Rob's vocals (even if none of the words mean anything)...hell, even the mix is beautiful, albeit a little quiet. It's one of the few albums I simply can't play loud enough.

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ButterscotchAware402@reddit

Still one of my faves!

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notthatiambitter@reddit

Rob Zombie showing off his vocal range of about three notes

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HookerWithaPianist@reddit

Jackass, should have never went solo.

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AmputeeHandModel@reddit

First couple albums were really good. So is his latest. It was inevitable, they hated each other. Or.. hated Rob at least.

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AmputeeHandModel@reddit

Fuck. Yeah. One of my favorite songs. LOVE that riff at the beginning. Jay was such an underrated guitarist. Such a huge part of their sound.

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Revolutionary-Emu154@reddit

First major concert was Filter and White Zombie in Lincoln Neb in 94. show blew my podunk little mind and I’ve been hooked ever since

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Reom_76@reddit

Saw them on that tour in SLC. I was barely 13 and it was my first concert. Probably had no business being there but it was awesome!

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DavesLegsDotCom@reddit

DEMON WARP IS COMING ALIVE

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SweatyPalmsSunday@reddit

First Metal show in 1995. The Melvins and Reverend Horton Heat opened for White Zombie. Weird bill. Fun show!

It was General Admission and I remember being impressed that all the sweaty metal heads smelled good!

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