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PODCAST: Episode 926 - Rob Zombie - "The Great Satan" Deep Dive Review · Ghost Cult Magazine Podcast

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None. What's up everybody?
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Afternoon TV, Thursday afternoon TV with a live stream, 2 live
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streams today. I don't know if you caught me
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late last night talking about Metallica at the Sphere.
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And now, now we're going to do a little deep dive review of the
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new Rob Zombie album. I thought you guys would
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appreciate it. I've been just trying to think
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lately about how to bring value to you guys who watch the
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channel and new Subs and everything and we're really
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looking to build a community. You can hear me talk about that
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more later on. But really and truly, what do we
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have? Long time journalism, very well
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respected. We do a lot of interviews with
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bands and we are lucky rocker stalkers here.
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What's up agent? We get albums early to review.
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And so you know, something I can share with all of y'all is my
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take on an album before it comes out, in case you're curious
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about it. Think it's going to suck a rule
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if you want to buy it, all that jazz.
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So that's what we do. That's kind of a lot of what we
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do. I made a little deck here to
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help me out. So we're going to do that and do
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the damn thing, see if we can get it to work.
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Hey yo, so Rob Zombie's The Great Satan comes out tomorrow
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of the do a little housekeeping first, just in case you all are
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curious. It's a banger, but that's a very
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two sentence review. But it's it's a lot more than
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just that. So let's talk a little bit about
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it. Transmaritos is here.
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Sky remote has passed by. What up?
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What up what up? Good to see you again for a
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little bit of light housekeeping.
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Today has been a day. Let me tell you.
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Rubber band man is here. We were just texting.
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What's up Adam? Anybody else just consider DMS
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also texts? I don't know, It's kind of all
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the same. So we're a little bit of
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housekeeping. Normally we do our live stream
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every Thursday. Today we're doing 2.
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I did one late last night also right before it was today, time
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travel. Still tuning in.
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Appreciate you, brother, appreciate you.
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So Yep, we talked about Metallica at the Sphere and if
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you can afford it, I know Gabe, Gabe is here, Auntie Mazdis on
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YouTube. I know how much of A Rob fan you
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are. This is probably something you
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want to check out, you want to know about these things.
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So yeah, let's do that. So go to, when you're done, go
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check out our thing. Can you afford to go see
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Metallica at the Sphere? I'm going to figure that out
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this weekend. Thanks for sharing, Torres
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Muertos. Always appreciated, brother.
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I'll be back in about two hours or less with my regular show.
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We're going to talk about all the things.
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Here's the graphic already made. Pontificating, pondering Kefi.
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Yeah, absolutely. And then again, if you're
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feeling tipsy, not our real ones and our everydayers.
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But, you know, we do have some money and revenue from
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advertising. But of course, we operate and
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live on tips. Tips help me buy records.
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Tips help us pay bills. Honestly, all the Super chats
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and super likes go back into the company EEE in my head.
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But here's the tip menu in case you're feeling tipsy.
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I appreciate it if you do. If not, that's fine.
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I'll probably share at least one more thing on here.
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And again, I will be back a little later.
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This is going to be a short but technically deep review.
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Again, appreciate you Tres, appreciate you.
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Much appreciated. Koienes Katsi is here.
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What's up? What's up?
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Hope I said that correctly. So there's our tip menu, there's
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our cash app. Let's talk about Rob Zombie,
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man, Rob Zombie has been pretty, you know, not maybe the most
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prolific guy and obviously a lot of people, you know, the
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Internet is full of memes and you know, Ramba lamb, Dang
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Godzilla, goddamn Frankenstein, man, I'm a jam Bamba lamb.
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Like that shit's not untrue. I think there is probably like a
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little bit of, you know, an idea that Rob maybe not mailed it in
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after White Zombie, but you know, he hasn't done a lot of
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experimenting. I think Educated Horses is his
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one record that is really considered the experimental one
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that's the most like soundtrack music.
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You know, we're going to talk about his longevity.
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He's only got 8 full length albums in his 4140 ish year
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career, but still some of the most bangerfic albums of all
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time. And again, I know that people
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kind of associate Rob most closely with the horror genre
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and his movies, but also his live show and that maybe the
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records don't hold up. And I'll be honest, I haven't
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really listened to Rob Zombie record more than twice since
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Educated Horses are sinister Urge.
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So that's a long time ago where it like some of them I liked.
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I like the electric kool-aid acid, whatever the fuck
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everybody's fucking in the UFO album.
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But you know, maybe some of his stuff seems one note and
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repetitive to some of you, but some people love him and you
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know, we're going to talk about why.
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And you know, we've been very fortunate to cover Rob Zombie a
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lot. Never got to interview him.
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Met him briefly once, which is a pretty quick and fun exchange at
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an Oz fest. I think it was the Oz Fest for
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educated horses where he went out with no show just like jeans
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in a T-shirt and was like we can be a band, which was
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interesting. And I think he had just had John
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Five in the band at that time or maybe right before that, which
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was a super interesting time for him.
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But yeah, man, you know, he puts on a great show.
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We've covered him a lot. We know he's got a lot of stuff
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going on this year, big tour, Marilyn Manson, Universal,
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probably Halloween Horror Nights again.
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Let's just talk about the album. This is the first record without
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John 5 in a long time. And I'm always the person that
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says John 5 is always the most underutilized guy in any
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project. That's not his own solo
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endeavor, right? He was in Manson for a long
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time. Didn't seem like he did a lot
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for that music play some great solos, interpreted the
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historical music well, Texas radio and the big the big yeah
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man, you know. And so this is the first record
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without Piggy D, who he released from the band a couple of years
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ago and now and has Riggs back who's been in the band now for
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like 3 more years. I actually saw one of Riggs's
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first shows back with the band when John 5, you know, switched
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teams basically like a sports trade to go to crew Mötley Crüe.
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And I don't know how much he's bringing to the table there.
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Supposedly has written new music with them.
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I don't remember hearing it, but so the new album features Rob
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obviously on vocals and usually production and some songwriting.
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Mike Riggs on guitar. We'll talk about him in a
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second. Our dude Rob Blasco Nicholson on
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bass, formerly of Ozzy Osbourne's band.
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And I think Riggs was at back to the beginning last summer.
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I don't know if you know, he's also in management.
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He also Co owns Liquid Death Spring and seltzer waters and
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energy drinks and stuff. What's the secret word?
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The secret words is Teetsy fly. It's always the secret word.
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That's an Entourage reference for you HBO fans and Jeremy
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Piven fans. But and Ginger Fish, of course.
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He's been the drummer there probably for about 15 years.
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So he's the current longest serving unbroken member of the
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band. I think as long as Ginger and
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Rob are happy with each other, he will stay in the band.
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He's, from what I understand, sober, and every time I've seen
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Rob with Ginger, at least you can guarantee he can rock those
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drums. But I'm super interested about
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Rigs being back in particular. We'll talk about why and then as
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always, I like to do a little Rob Zombie by the numbers or
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artist by the number. So 40 years in music in 2026.
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He might have had some attempts at a band before that, 10 years
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only with White Zombie and 30 as a solo artist.
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So he had, I think this is the Great Satan is Rob's eighth full
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length album. I think with White Zombie, he
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had three full lengths and a bunch of EPS and then he's had,
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you know, eight. I think this is his eighth solo
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album on top of those other earlier White Zombie records.
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And you know, I think most people would say, I think how
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Billy Deluxe and Sinister Urge have moments that hold up to
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White Zombie. Personally, I was such a big
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White Zombie fan and Sex or Sisto and Electric Head to a
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lesser extent are so baller and they're so great that I think it
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kind of is, you know, felt less than for Rob's solo career.
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But you know, a lot easier to be in a band by yourself then have
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to do deal with other herbs. Michael Treat is here, H Harris
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is here, Narwhalis is here. Great name.
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You got a great screen name. I'm going to shout it out, you
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know, So 21 million records sold combined for White Zombie and
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Rob Zombie. That's an estimate from the
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interwebs. And, you know, nothing to sneeze
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at for a very popular artist. And his touring, you know, has
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always been pretty successful. Of course, people know Rob also
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is a visual artist. He's done a lot of shirts and
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music videos, most notably all the White Zombie videos.
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He directed videos for Prong and the Stillboard video for Black
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Label Society. He originally worked as a stage
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artist on Pee Wee's Playhouse. He also was the original artist
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of the Ricky Rackman era of the stage for Headbangers Ball on
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MTV. That's how he came into, you
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know, That's how he came into, you know, being also, you know,
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also, I mean, he's been a guest on other shows like Headbangers
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Bowl, where he was an occasional host.
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And of course, he could have been the host of that show,
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would have been pretty seamless. He's also hosted a lot of movies
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and television things and award shows where he's presented 150
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million box office on his six feature films, all in the horror
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genre. I didn't much care for The
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Munsters redo on Netflix. I understood what he was going
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for. Did not love it.
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GAIL Brent is also here. What's up?
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What's up? And Tres Muertos has now popped
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over to IG. Hello.
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Hello. Appreciate it.
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But yeah, 150 million nothing to sneeze at.
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He's a very successful money making, you know, film
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filmographer, director. He's also done a couple of other
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little guest spots in his own movies and other people's
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movies. And, you know, he makes money on
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his films and some of his films were not commercially loved, but
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they weren't money losers. And of course, in history, his
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his stuff stands on its own. And of course, you know, he
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still works with Universal Pictures and Universal Studios
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as an artist and the director, even though he's not on their
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label anymore. He was on that label for quite a
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long time. I think he also had one record
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on Roadrunner back in the day. Why?
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Zombie, of course, was originally on Geffen Records
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when they signed after Carolyn. So the Great Satan, obviously a
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very, you know, perhaps triggering album title for
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people in this crazy. I think you better start from
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the beginning. Exactly.
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And there's plenty of samples on here.
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The Great Satan, great album artwork.
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I like the black and white of it all.
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You know, Rob kind of face painted and hippie looking on
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the cover. You know, he's always been a
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great self promoter and really good at putting himself into
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things. Right.
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B66 sis is here. What's up, what's up, what's up?
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So, you know, just always super interesting that he would, you
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know, accomplish these things. So the album opens up and and
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you know, I will say that I wasn't super excited about the
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singles initially. And then I love the videos and I
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saw I listen to them a little on repeat.
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And then our review of the album came across my e-mail for me to
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edit and post from her own Will Suffer, who writes quite a bit
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of stuff. And I don't think that he's
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necessarily a Rob Zombie or White Zombie super fan.
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I think he's just a good metal head.
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So, you know, I think, you know, I think the original White
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Zombie records came out originally on Rob's own record
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label and then Caroline Records, which event, you know, doesn't
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exist anymore, but a lot of helmet and prong were on those
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labels. I'll just tell a little story
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really quick before I jump into this is that, you know, my I go
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back with White Zombie before they were popular.
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I'm from New York City. Did you know?
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And I saw White Zombie open for the Lunatics and the Cramps and
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White Zombie was not good. They were pretty bad.
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They were kind of a Cramps light type of band where they were
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like noise rock and punk and a little metal, but not really.
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And they weren't necessarily great as a band.
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And then I remember when Make Them Die slowly came out, they
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started kind of gravitating toward metal and obviously less
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Exorcisto. Is this like horror scenes,
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heavy metal and thrash metal? It's much more thrash and groove
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metal than other records at the time.
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I know it didn't really come out till 93 and some of those songs
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are on the EP that got them signed to Geffen.
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And some of those songs were on Soul Crusher and Make Them Die
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Slowly, which came out before, but you know, the bones of White
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Zombie. And then they kind of morphed
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into industrial metal like, well, if we can't do that, we'll
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never be able to replicate what sex or Sisto again, which was
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like Slayer, very slayery and metal.
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But let's take it the dancy stuff up a notch.
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And obviously we got Electric Head and then that that went on
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for a couple of years where they toured with Pantera and did
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arenas together. And originally White Zombie was
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headlining over Pantera and then it flipped and Pantera was
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headlining over White Zombie, which, you know, kind of tells
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you a little bit of what you need to know.
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But White Zombie was untouchable back then, especially with my
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and Ivan De Prune and a couple of other drummers, and then
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Johnson, Pesta, formerly Testament, Exodus and Forbidden
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and Cult and a bunch of other bands.
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So talk About the Great Satan opens up with FTW 84.
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And it kind of has, it's a longer track.
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It's got kind of a a very soundtracky intro.
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I guess they could have made it a separate track.
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I personally don't like when the opening track is a separate
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track. I want one song to start the
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record. I don't want a multitude, But
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not all of us contain multitudes.
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If you've been watching industry, maybe you get that
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reference. I don't know, but once the song
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proper kicks in, it's an absolute banger to start the
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record. An absolute hint of what's to
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come. It's about 4 minutes.
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I think that's the sweet spot for every Rob Zombie song.
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Super spooky intro and then just an absolute groove metal banger
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similar to Astro Creep 2000 or Electric Head as Gabe dropped in
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the sample. There's tons of samples.
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It's all the things you love about Rob Zombie right off the
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the bat. It's groovy.
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You can head bang to it. It's got a fancy beat, pretty
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great. The second track of the album's
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a little shorter, and that is Tarantula, which I have to say,
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sorry, Itchy trigger finger there.
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Tarantula is one of the best songs on the record.
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The whole record's excellent, but Tarantula stands out.
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It's very Pantera, far beyond driven and Vulgar Display of
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Power. Very groovy, heavy, phenomenal
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riffs, great vocal by Rob, which like, you know, Rob is not a
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traditionally great singer. I know he started out just kind
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of rapping and shouting in T like all metal singers did.
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And obviously he was very inspired by Public Enemy and
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stuff to rap. I was at the bar the other night
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here where I do karaoke and one of my friends said like anytime
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I see a white guy rapping, I'm immediately disappointed and and
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unhappy about it. And I was like, you know what,
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That's completely fucking fair. But Rob is actually solid at
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rapping tarantula rules. I'll just leave it at that.
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Then the next track is one of the singles, I'm a Rock and
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Roller, kind of a generic song. I think one of the things Rob
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Zombie does really well is get people like he writes with the
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live show in mind. So it's a lot of sing alongs.
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It's a lot of stuff people want to chant back to a band.
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And I'm a Rock and roller. I think he name checks Jimmy
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Page. You know, the video is pretty
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interesting. It's got a little fun stuff
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there, but it's also like a rehearsal room, like a cramped
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little rehearsal room. And again, man, just riffs.
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And I don't know, I'm not going to say that like the previous
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Rob Zombie records didn't have good riffs because of course
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they did with John 5. But I just feel like he didn't
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ever let John 5 like do his thing as much.
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And Riggs is just a perfect match for, you know, going out
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and playing the hits with Rob and then coming in to put a
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record together. I don't know how much of it he
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actually got to write, but it does sound like he's a big
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contributor here. Great guitar, crunchy guitar
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sound. Just what you want, you know,
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from a modern metal record. Typical Rob Zombie song.
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Another single is Heathen Days. Pretty short, super fast, almost
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a thrash metal. There's a few of these on here
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that could be thrash metal, like a super fast quick track that I
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really like. A kind of reminded me a little
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bit of Supercharger Heaven from Astro Creep, which there's also
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a few more on here that sound like that.
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Then there's a little interlude Who Am I didn't do much for me
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but OK, there's a few, quite a few.
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So it's like a long record, If you count the intro as one track
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and not 2, it would be like 16 tracks, but there's like at
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least three interludes and the intro is long and therefore and
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the outro. So we'll get to it.
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Then next is Black Rat Cough Coffin, which is awesome metal
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as fuck and maybe the Best Song on the whole record.
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That and Tarantula, just absolute Ripper.
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There's an ear peeler. I want to hear quite a few of
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these songs live. Then, in typical Rob Zombie
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fashion, Sir Lord Acid Wolfman, I don't know what the fuck this
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song is about. If you know, drop a comment and
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tell me. I don't know what the fuck this
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song is about. The lyrics make even less sense
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than usual for a Rob Zombie song.
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But that being said, I actually enjoyed the song.
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It's not it's neither great, but it's you know, it's certainly
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not horrible, but I I don't understand, like I don't need to
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understand what it's about. Do you need to understand what
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any Rob Zombie song is about? I don't think so, but it's
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pretty obtuse even for Rob. Then the next track is another
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Ranger punks and demons, another short one, possibly the title
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track, because it does repeat Satan a lot in the lyrics and
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it's pretty fun. Another Shorty.
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So this record kind of whips by, even though it's got a lot of
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tracks and this is probably, I would make this a single if it's
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not already planned to be, I would do it.
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I think it kind of works for that.
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Next is the devil man with a devil man, Devil man Devil man
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lyrics, which will remind you again of Super Charter Heaven.
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Very slow, though not fast. This is more like a White Zombie
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jaws of the soul crusher, you know, like one of those songs,
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you know, really similar to the earth.
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Like sex is just a White Zombie Thunder kiss.
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You know, there's a lot of call outs across his career here.
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Almost like, hey, remember that thing you really love for me 30
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years ago? We'll check this out.
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Then the next song is I believe out of sight, which is a lot
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like an industrial metal super beast type of song and really a
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lot of ministry on this record ministry from recent KMFDM
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record that came out like really like even a little 9 inch nails
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on out of sight. Pretty cool.
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Not like Tron areas 9 inch Nails, but like the broken EP 9
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inch nails, like Wish, like yeah, he sticks to his roots.
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He knows man. He like he's not going to
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overthink this thing. I think we got the one
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experimental record out of the way from him early, the 4th
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record or fifth record, and I don't think he's going to make
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another one. Welcome to the Electric Age is
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another interlude. Doesn't do much for me and
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doesn't seem like it either. Oh, sorry, I think I skipped
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one. Did I skip one?
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OK, I got them out of order. Revolution mother fuckers is the
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next one. And he's doing like a Carney
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Barker thing like again, Rob not super great at his voice wise,
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but like he has a lot of voices. He's using effects on his voice.
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He's giving you like a lot of different flavors.
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Now I don't know how all of this would translate to a show, but
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some of this stuff is, you know, listicles and stream of
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consciousness gibberish and madness.
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But you know, people want to chant along to a song called
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Revolution Mother fuckers. You know, they just want to.
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Then the next track is the is the Welcome to the Electric Age,
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which I didn't quite like too much.
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Again, didn't do much for me. Then the song ends with a a
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super bang. OK, here we go.
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Black Scorpion is an absolute banger.
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Kind of sounds like thrash metal but with a typo.
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Negative monsters keyboard part again.
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Rob knows what he's doing. This is who he is.
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He's not going to change the formula now.
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Another one of the best songs on here and the shortest.
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I would say it kind of reminded me of, you know, I think this is
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probably the first time ever, you know, that spider, his
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brother Spider one from what's his band?
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I just had it before they started out as like spider one.
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They started out as like, you know, like sort of like incubus,
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groovy folk stuff. And then they changed to kind of
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industrial metal after Rob did, which is weird.
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Of course. I couldn't remember what his
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band is because you know, not that great.
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Power Man 5000 Oh my God, I'm so tired.
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Power Man 5000 So it kind of when Power Man 5000 they ran out
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of ideas to do kind of industrial metal and especially
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dancy stuff. They went back and did like punk
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records and now they're back again doing the industrial hits.
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So to me, the Black Scorpion kind of feels a lot like, not
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that Rob Zombie is listening to the brother because I'm sure
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this is the first time anyone has ever did this.
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This is like Rob Zombie doing like a Power Man 5000 punk kind
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of step back. I don't know that they're close.
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I don't think they've toured together much.
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My favorite band is in as much of A metal head as I am.
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It's probably Pink fluid. How about you Ghost gaming on
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TikTok? What's your favorite band?
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So yeah, like a very fast, punky metal power man, but also very
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thrashy, very thrashy. So this record's got some heavy
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shit on it, man. I'm going to tell you, I was
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pleasantly surprised. And then finally, it's not the
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last. It's the last full song proper
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on the album Unclean Animals, which is like a very slow pre
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life sex or Sisto White Zombie groove metal song that kind of
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also reminds me of Blood, Milk and Sky a little bit.
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The closing track on Astro Creep 2000.
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Yeah, Metallica. I've seen them the most of any
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band like 45-6 times. I'm hoping to go to the sphere.
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We shall see. But Unclean Animals, really
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strong, really strong. And then the album ends again
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with another little outro called Grave Discontent.
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But again, didn't do much for me.
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You know, before I talk more about the merch and other
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things, I want to read this quote.
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So we'll suffer a ghost cult and I will link this.
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It's in the description but here you go for y'all watching if you
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want to check it out. And I'll try to link it for
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y'all over on the TikTok also. So here's the quote from our
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review because it was a very high praise.
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Overall, this album is fucking fantastic and shows that just
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because you came out in the 90s, it does not mean you have to
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forsake your sound. If you were good enough artists
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to perfect it. This most likely works better
26:20
than if he tried to get the old band back together, which you
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know that Rob has zero interest in putting White Zombie back
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together as we have heard, and certainly more inspired and
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stands tall against his best work.
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And it doesn't matter if you were hung up on digging through
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the ditches or kissing Thunder in 1965, all the elements that
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sparked interest in your ears when you first heard those
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sounds are in play. So really, really great.
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Really great review. I got to say, for me personally,
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I don't think it's a perfect Rob Zombie album, but it surely is a
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lot better than I thought and Bella Kiss Music is here.
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What's up? I absolutely have listened to
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this thing 3 or 4 times to do this review and I think it's a
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pretty excellent record and a surprisingly excellent record
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among a month of banger records in in 2026 so far.
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Puscifer came out early in the month.
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Can be really hard to pin down what the number one record of
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the month is, but this is pretty incredible.
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I have to say surprise me. There are deluxe packages for
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the great Satan, you know, a nuclear blast and Rob have
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collaborated. There's like a poster and
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illustrated book set that comes with a splatter vinyl.
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There's the regular vinyl variance and bundles and
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splatter vinyls and merch bundles.
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I do like the black and white cover.
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I think educated horses also has a black and white cover.
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So you know, after doing such vibrant blur, the Technicolor
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pun intended type of stuff, I think it's kind of fun that Rob
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has this kind of very monochrome but still cool looking album
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artwork and that is the Great Satan.
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Personally, I would give this A8 or even a low nine.
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I'm not Anthony Fantano, it is low twos, but you know, this is
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about the best I could have hoped for for Rob Zombie record.
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There are tracks that are exceptional and not a lot of
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stuff that sounds like filler except for the sort of
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interludes that are meant to be filler.
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So like, I understood the assignment and so did Rob.
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All right, we're getting to the top of the hour.
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Volbeat rocker here. Been a long time since we've
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seen you. I will be back in about an hour
28:32
or so with an with the regular weekly show, but I wanted to get
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in. We had the opportunity to listen
28:37
to the record a lot before it dropped, and I felt like you
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guys deserved, you know, a little bit of hearing from me
28:45
about it. So I hope you enjoyed it.
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Drop a comment if you've heard some of this stuff, if you are
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excited about it or not, if you've got thoughts about it, if
28:53
you don't like Rob Zombie, if you prefer White Zombie, that's
28:57
also totally OK because a lot of people do.
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I still listen to White Zombie every week and for me
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personally, it's a lot better than, you know, most of his solo
29:09
stuff. But that's just me and you know,
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maybe I'm wrong because I'm wrong.
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Sometimes I get it wrong even though I, you know, I am an
29:17
expert at these things. Sometimes I get it wrong.
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I just get it wrong. Anyway, that's our show.
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I'll be back in a little while with the regular show.
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Thanks to our regular ones, Rubber band man Gabe, you know
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anybody that tuned in on the on the gram that we that are, you
29:45
know, our regular fans here. I appreciate you all and I'll be
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back in a little while. Peace out, Metalon.