Rob Zombie recently commented on a box set that he’s curating which will feature “everything we ever recorded;” with the ‘we’ being White Zombie, of course. While this seems entirely superfluous on the surface, the band releasing only three major label albums, one being a remix album, there is a colossal amount of material that hasn’t seen the light of day which Mr. Zombie plans to unveil. “I am currently transferring all the early shit from the original tapes,” Zombie continued when recently speaking with Blabbermouth, “this will be the final word on White Zombie.”
One of the most unusual bands of the past twenty years, White Zombie began as a New York based art rock band, one possibly more noise driven than even Sonic Youth. If there were to be a band that played music on a level of ‘unlistenable,’ for years that band would have been White Zombie. This description is not a negative statement, however, just a way of comparing the band’s oldest material to the song that eventually brought them their greatest success, the 1995 single “More Human Than Human.”
This collection that Zombie is putting together will most likely be released with little exposure, its sole purpose being to release songs that have until now lived only on tapes in storage. That being said it might help a new breed of fan dig a little bit deeper into musical archives themselves and search for music that they had never heard of. If the end result is a few more Big Black fans, I’m not sure that there is anything wrong with that.
White Zombie “Eighty-Eight”
White Zombie “Diamond Ass”
Additional White Zombie Audio Here
White Zombie “Thunderkiss ‘65″
“Thunderkiss ‘65″ on Beavis and Butthead
White Zombie “Welcome to Planet Motherfucker”
“Welcome to Planet Motherfucker” on Beavis and Butthead
“Black Sunshine” on Beavis and Butthead
White Zombie feature in Airheads
White Zombie “More Human Than Human”
White Zombie “Electric Head Part 2 (The Ecstasy)”
White Zombie “Super-Charger Heaven”
White Zombie “I’m Your Boogieman”
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