Disco de White Zombie: “Astro-Creep 2000: Songs of Love, Destruction and O”

This CD is great. White Zombie was (is?) in my opinion one of the 90s best rock / metal groups, along with the likes of Tool. This CD is full of songs that are monstrously heavy yet infectiously catchy. All the songs are good, my favorite is either Super Charger Heaven or El Phantasmo and the Chicken-Run Blast-o-Rama. A great rock CD, buy it. Rob Zombie as a solo artist is okay, but White Zombie was much better.

You know what I am talking about. It's one of those albums where every single song kicks ass, and you don't have to hit the skip button one time.

This album is why White Zombie will always be my favorite band. La Sexorcisto was really f'in cool in it's own way. But this album is insane?!!?!?!? HAVE YOU LISTENED TO SUPERCHARGER HEAVEN? Each song is hard, every single one...even Blood Milk and Sky which sounds like a Hippie mixed metal jumablaya.

This is by far the best weight lifting album out there. Each song gets you pumped up and rearing to kick the crap out of any little emo beitch that gets in your way. It is better than any of Zombie's other attempts...but the songs are so awesome..that they even sounded good on Supersexy Swingin' Sounds all techno'd up.

It's a shame as someone before me wrote...that this album didn't get more attention than it did. If it had come out now...it would turn the tide of music from Rap's favor back into hard rocks. Unfortunately music like this cannot be found these days thanks to whiny bitches like Green Day and Blink 182 and all those other 'singin-about-my-girlfriend-who-cheated-on-me-with-the-cooler-guy' bands.

This album is 100% whoopass and NO ONE will be disappointed listening to it. Go out and get it now...and stop accepting the crappy new rock music that has been coming out. We are entitled to much much more...and this album is proof.

When I first listened to it three years ago, I judged "Astro-Creep 2000" to be trash. However, after happening upon it one night on my car radio, bass cranked up high, I decided to give the band a second chance. Although it is now defunct and Rob Zombie has gone on his own, I feel that White Zombie is one of the most inspired bands of the decade. While countless other bands incestuously ape each other, singing of trendy, phony angst (for genuine earth-shattering angst, listen to Gustav Mahler), this band's music satisfies the senses in ways that other bands cannot.

I guess I like White Zombie because of the apparent contradictions in its music. On the one hand, there's the Postmodern self-parody of so-called "Devil" music, with its silly Satanism (Who can help but laugh at the "Devilman runnin' in my head" bit in "Super-Charger Heaven?") and Rob Zombie's deadpan growling of the lyrics. But then, there's also genuine feeling in the music, which has an almost organic quality, like someone using bowels and intestines as instruments. In other words, White Zombie takes its music-making seriously, without taking itself seriously. Its intention is to entertain, to help us get in touch with our inner "Devilman" (or Devilwoman), and perhaps to help us laugh at the very things that scared the bejeezus out of us as kids (To paraphrase Mark Twain, the best way to get rid of the Devil is to laugh at him.). It also criticizes Christianity, or at least what it has become in the 2000 years since its "founder" died, and campily evokes the Devil and his army of undead ghouls and sensualists as a kind of metaphorical counterpoint. Some of White Zombie's assaults seem a bit sophomoric, but it's merely to shock parents and authority figures while getting its intended audience to think (hopefully) independently.

The songs are very well-done for the most part. I especially like five of them. "Super-Charger Heaven" has great drive, and the "Devilman" chorus always evokes a chuckle. "Electric Head Part 2" is funky. "I Zombie" has a (more or less) terrifying sound, its relentless beat reminding me of the "Mars" movement in Holst's "The Planets" (The monotone singing is particularly effective.). "More Human Than Human" is very well-played, its opening placing me in mind of how Wagner's "Liebestod" would have sounded if played by Jimi Hendrix alongside porno sound samples.

Amidst all the crazy music, the album ends with the enigmatic "Blood, Milk, and Sky." It sounds like an older, wizened Zombie growling quietly under quasi-Arabic rhythms. The song is almost poignant, like a Zombie who is weary of all that has transpired in the earlier songs of sex, death, and the supernatural.

Analysis aside, this is an excellent recording. Not all the songs are great, but you won't get bored either. I especially recommend it for excellent sound systems and parties where conversation is not a priority.

AstroCreep 2000 is by far the best White Zombie album and even for that matter one of the best cds of all time. It is great for guys (and girls for that matter) who like bands such as the new Rob Zombie (break off from White Zombie), HED PE, KoRn, Metallica, and anything else that is on the edge of hardcore. With a sense of heavy music and lyrics yet a touch quiet in recording, this cd provides for a worthy album. It contains some of White Zombies best songs including More Human Than Human and more. 5 stars is a definate!

I remember loving this cd back when in was in middle school (which was around the time this came out) but I hadn't heard it since. Well, my brother recently bought it and I've been listening to it alot now, remembering how bad ass it was.

The lyrics in here make absolutely no sense, and sometimes you can barely even understand what he's saying. So with that being said you can basically make whatever you want out of the lyrics. I remember that I used to think that this cd was somehow based on the Book of Revelation and that it was about the end of the world. After all, the song "Blood, Milk, and Sky" has that apocalyptic sound to it. I think I once actually sat and thought about how each of the songs somehow represented all the stages of the apocalypse. Wierd. This is a great cd.