Astro-Creep: 2000 - Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head

by White Zombie

Overview

Following the belated surprise success of La Sexorcisto, Astro-Creep: 2000 carried the weight of high expectations, something that White Zombie wasn't familiar with before. Unsurprisingly, the band plays it safe on Astro-Creep, never straying from their white-trash-on-acid metal. While it's undeniably campy, the band genuinely love the trash they sing about, so they fit right into the tradition of tongue-in-cheek heavy metal bands from Alice Cooper to Kiss. Where those bands relied on songcraft beneath their shtick, White Zombie relies on a full-throttled roar. Borrowing such techniques as distorted vocals and drilling riffs from pseudo-industrial metal like Ministry, the band beefs up their basic sound, making it powerful enough to disguise the lack of solid song structures and memorable riffs. Sonically, Astro-Creep delivers the initial goods, yet it never develops into trash as substantial as "Thunder Kiss '65." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	04/11/1995
Label:	Geffen
UPC:	0720642480625

Tracks

1. Electric Head Pt. 1 (The Agony)
2. Super-Charger Heaven
3. Real Solution #9
4. Creature of the Wheel
5. Electric Head Pt. 2 (The Ecstasy)
6. Grease Paint and Monkey Brains
7. I, Zombie
8. More Human Than Human
9. El Phantasmo and the Chicken-Run Blast-O-Rama
10. Blur the Technicolor
11. Blood, Milk and Sky

Album Credits

Performance Credits

White Zombie   Primary Artist
Rob Zombie   Primary Artist,Lead Vocals,Vocals
Sean Yseult   Bass,Guitar (Bass)
J.   Guitar,Guitar (Electric)
John Tempesta   Drums

Technical Credits

Wade Norton   Engineer,Assistant Engineer
White Zombie   Composer,Producer
Rob Zombie   Illustrations,Art Direction,Composer,Producer
Jay Yuenger   Composer
Sean Yseult   Composer,Producer
Alastair Thain   Photography
Sean Reynolds   Composer
Michael Golob   Art Direction
Lamont Hyde   Engineer,Mixing Engineer,Mixing Assistant
Shauna Iseult Reynolds   Composer
Jay Noel Yvenger   Composer
Ted Jensen   Mastering
Terry Date   Mixing,Engineer,Producer,Mixing Engineer
J.   Producer
Ulrich Wild   Engineer
John Tempesta   Composer,Producer