“I think he’s pretty interesting,” he states. So what does Zombie-who has a Charles Manson–type X “carved” between his eyes on the cover of Hellbilly Deluxe-think of the current Marilyn craze? Marilyn Manson has also struck it rich striking fear into the hearts of goody two-shoes types everywhere. Zombie isn’t the only rocker to make successful use of the diabolical, Mom’s-worst-nightmare approach these days. “I try to do everything that I remember liking as a kid,” says Zombie, who is depicted in two photographs with the same black top hat and eye makeup the Coop favoured during his Billion Dollar Babies phase. Cooper also used to go the extra mile with his elaborate album packaging, and Zombie carries on the tradition with Hellbilly Deluxe’s 24-page booklet, which includes artwork by the likes of master monster painter Basil Gogos and Marvel Comics legend Gene Colan, as well as Zombie himself. It’s no surprise that his biggest musical influence is Alice Cooper, who took fright-rock to towering new heights in the early ’70s.
DID ROB ZOMBIE DROP OUT OF HIGHSCHOOL FULL
On his debut solo disc, Hellbilly Deluxe-which was recorded in “Satan-O-Phonic” sound and is subtitled 13 Tales of Cadaverous Cavorting Inside the Spookshow International-the Zombie man goes the full horror-rock route with tunes like “Demonoid Phenomenon”, “Living Dead Girl”, “How to Make a Monster”, and the CD’s debut single and video, “Dragula”. “It’s kinda the next level,” he says, which means that local hard-rock fans could be in for a twisted good time when his band plays the PNE Forum on Monday (November 16), with guests Monster Magnet and Fear Factory. He claims that his solo-artist trip is better and more fun, and that his current show is more elaborate, than White Zombie’s ever was. Zombie’s audible sniffles aren’t the result of his getting all choked up by sentimental thoughts of his old White Zombie pals-he’s just got a whopper of a cold. Just like -the band had been together for a long time, and just started falling apart after a while, just like every band does, usually.
“It wasn’t like a sudden thing by any means,” reports Zombie from backstage in Madison, Wisconsin, “just a long, slow, gradual decay. It seemed like quite a surprise at the time that the New York band’s 13-year career was over, but according to former White Zombie leader Rob Zombie, the breakup was actually a long time coming. Two months ago a press release from Universal Music hummed in on the Georgia Straight fax machine, bearing the news that White Zombie had “collectively decided to disband”. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT, NOV.
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