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1995 - Astro-Creep: 2000
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April 11, 1995 - 2025: 30 years of: Astro-Creep: 2000

The nineties ...the ultimate hard-stuff laboratory.

After the scene's 90° shift, society morphed throughout 1992-93-94. Was this sick and twisted world ready for some new extremes ?

Pounding metal since their 1985 inception, the NYC punk-crew of WHITE ZOMBIE were always under the radar, until 1992's La Sexorcisto CD that included the alt-metal MTV-hit "Thunder Kiss '65". After grunge's tidal-wave sweep and then throw-away, 1995 was now ready for another bitch-slap ...a bigger and uglier monster.

"Perhaps you had better start from the beginning..."

The riff and primal-rhythm of "Electric Head Pt.1 (The Agony)" bursts-out and chokes you into submission. The start / stop thrashy riff shakes the ground to the core. This ride shifts into higher-gear with "Super-Charger Heaven", an up-beat double-bassdrum metal steamroller.

The Patricia Krenwinkel spoken-intro, a Charles Manson family-member killer, sets the dark tone for "Real Solution #9", another massive heavy stomper. The grooves of "Electric Head Pt. 2 (The Ecstasy)" once again puts these ZOMBIEs at the top of this blooming new-metal scene. High-gain overdriven guitars, low-end bass and mechanical industrial-flavored drums ...all wrapped in a poprock carnival atmosphere.

And now, the 90s-track of all 90s-tracks: "More Human Than Human" blows heads-off in a split second. The ingenious electro-intro and sub-rhythm, matched with J.'s dropped-tuned slide-guitar apocalypse makes this hybrid a furious rock-Godzilla. This one still shines today and remains one of the band's cult-track.

Spring 1995: while BODY COUNT were still being hunted by police and new backstreet-kids KORN performed deep noise, Beavis & Butt-Head's favorite band made sure the brain-eating living dead walked freely across the nation. RIAA-certified 2x Platinum and perfectly produced by Terry Date, WHITE ZOMBIE's exhibition steps-up the game and solidifies the 90s with fusion of hot vibes and edgy soundscapes.

After extensive touring, the circus would sadly dissolve and thrust front-man occult B-movie buff Rob Zombie, into an impressive solo-career and even more impressive movie-career as a horror writer and producer. The other ZOMBIEs would disappear from the rock-landscape, albeit drummer John Tempesta that would later find a new home with THE CULT. WHITE ZOMBIE never reunited.

Here it is, in all of it's glory; Astro-Creep: 2000 - Songs Of Love, Destruction And Other Synthetic Delusions Of The Electric Head.

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More Human Than Human = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0E0ynyIUsg
Electric Head Pt. 2 (The Ecstasy) = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdYvr2QpC3E
Super-Charger Heaven = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHbeylXj6gs
Astro-Creep = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKVQCT0RMYQ&list=OLAK5uy_mR8yaB8X591I4h1RecrvLMPxGCXDj5vZs
VIVA interview at Donington in 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fs94PYovF8
MTV Invades Your Space in 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4sgH0x1Ors
Live on Letterman in 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnoSduBEUf4
Live at Donington in 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLRkcr4TqEk
some girl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mJvnm9PO1c

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