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Title: FEED
THE GODS! Zombie
Live Delivers The Intensity The Fans Crave
Break out the best audio gear, pop in the album, crank up the volume, and close your eyes - you are now at a live Rob Zombie concert . . . and someone turned out the damn lights! Zombie Live, released in October of last year, unleashes the "superbeasts" of Rob Zombie, guitarist John 5, bassist Piggy D, and drummer Tommy Clufetos into your ears with eighteen guitar-driven, drum-pounding, backtracked songs that longtime Zombie fans love. The album thoroughly spans the musical genius behind Rob Zombie from the early industrial years of White Zombie through today's popular hits inspired (and entitled) by his recent film releases "House of 1,000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects." Producer Scott Humphrey returns to the mixing board again for a fourth time with Rob Zombie, now focusing on the live concert mixes from Zombie's recent tour. Zombie and Humphrey have churned out an addictive concoction of balance between various instruments, vocals, and samples. The only lack is the overall volume of the audience, but still quite clear in voicing their appreciation. Very few live albums of bands can both chronicle the history of blood and sweat shed by the artists and deliver a top quality sound and intense energy. Toping off at #57 on the Billboard Charts, Zombie Live strikes such an overpowering chord with metal fans as Pantera's Official Live: Proof 101 did ten years ago. Live opens up with the instrumental "Sawdust in the Blood", the opening track to his 2006 LP Educated Horses, and immediately cranks up loud on the intro backtrack of "American Witch" to the crowd's approval. Zombie doesn't hold back from pumping up the rabid Zombie fans by getting them to sing along in such tracks as the infamous "More Human Than Human" and "Dragula." The southern, less distortion filled riffs of "House of 1,000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects" doesn't cut loose on the electrical noose the band has around the fans as they break into their respective hard-hitting choruses. Even as the album winds down to its conclusion, Zombie refuses to let the crowd slip away unfulfilled. At the conclusion of "Lords of Salem", John 5 breaks into the first few strums, in which Zombie stops and asks the fans, "Does anyone out there recognize that little riff?" Oh, yes! It's none other than the White Zombie headbanging classic "Thunderkiss '65", which concludes with a near two minute Van Halenesque solo by the future guitarists' hall of fame legend John 5. The album makes a great addition to the collection of Rob Zombie memorabilia and serves as the trophy album to tell the historical epic known as Zombie. To any new fans, this presents a better introduction to what Zombie's all about, than the 2003 LP Past, Present, & Future thanks impart to its precise track selection and overall out-of-the-studio-and-in-your-face sound. The laid out artwork of tour photography provided by bassist Piggy D, along with photographer Fred Kharrazi makes a great visual-telling of the tour when it's viewed along with the album at full crank. To keep up with the digital-age, where CD sales continue to decline in the war against individual-song downloads, the album comes with its share of bonuses you can access via the internet and download straight to your PC. Videos ("Demon Speeding" and "Let It All Bleed Out") and ring tones are made available, comprised of a few Zombie hits and extracts from his recently successful re-envisioning of horror classic "Halloween." Expect this album's significant other, a DVD of Zombie's recent tour, to be released this coming spring.
Track listing for Zombie Live: 1. Sawdust in the Blood
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