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Malevolent megalomaniac or eerie artiste? Rob Zombie is a bit of both. With spooky metal music that's as colourful and kitschy as its comic art, the singer's solo debut bears more than a little resemblance to his band of many years, White Zombie. These 13 tracks (yeah, there just had to be 13!) continue to explore Zombie's fascination with psychotic noise, pummelling grooves, campy samples, and all things horrific. Instead of just playing dictator, however, this astrocreep allows space for cohorts such as guitarist Danny Lohner and drummers John Tempesta and Tommy Lee to shine darkly. He also shares artistic credit for the LP's elaborate 24-page booklet. Zombie's finely crafted disc is heavy-metal thunder that's turbocharged for the new millennium. --Janiss Garza
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ROB ZOMBIE Hellbilly Deluxe (1998 German pressed 13-track CD album featuring the first solo album from Rob with the help of White Zombies John Tempesta Mike Riggs and Rob Blasko Nicholson. Includes the singles Dragula Living Dead Girl and Superbeast complete with a picture sleeve booklet which reeks of grindhouse goodness!)
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Rob Zombie has certainly managed to forge his own special place in the hard-rocking halls of popular music. He went all out in the gimmick department, but it definitely works. Having little familiarity with White Zombie at the time this album was released, Living Dead Girl served as my mode of introduction to this "unusual" artist. I immediately found his music disturbing, unique, and definitely appealing, but I initially hesitated in buying Hellbilly Deluxe. Once I heard Dragula, though, I had to get the album. As a horror fan, I enjoy Zombie's close affiliation with the darker paths of life. He can be a little scary, I suppose, but the hint of whimsy that can be discerned in his music is made much clearer when you get a look at the little booklet that comes with the CD. The disturbing cartoon references bring to my mind images of wonderful old monster movies, Weird Tales magazine, and those vintage horror comics that eventually became victims of government citizenship. Rob Zombie knows how to have fun with extreme horror, and that makes him a great guy in my book.
Personally, I love the way words and small speeches are incorporated into his music (not to mention the joys of hearing random screams in the background); it helps make listening to Zombie a surreal experience. This does mean that you don't really have 13 songs on the album, though; a few of the tracks are short musical bridges connecting one great song with another. This is not a problem, though, because everything goes together to make this album an experience that transcends simple music. As for the music itself, I love its driving beat, horrorific overtones, and powerful vocals. The guy's not going to win any singing contests, but it doesn't matter because his presentation is excellent in all facets of the music-great lyrics with pulsing, rhythmic beats that worm their way into your brain and chest, letting you pretend for a while that your heart is black and nothing really matters beyond experiencing life in its most fundamental and necessarily unclean ways. I wouldn't want to go out in public in a Zombie-fied frame of mind, but this music is a great way to relieve the stress of mundane modern life.
Living Dead Girl and Dragula are the most familiar tracks on here, but there are plenty of songs of the same high caliber. Superbeast gets the show off to a great start; the relentlessly pulsing beat of Spookshow Baby is awesome; Meet the Creeper and The Ballad of Resurrection Joe more than hold their own, and Return of the Phantom Stranger has a mesmerizing quality in its monotone lyrics, sneaking up on you from side to side before unleashing its full torrent of force upon both ears simultaneously. There is a great cohesiveness to the album as a whole, making it almost impossible for you to simply pick and choose different tracks to listen to; Hellbilly Deluxe essentially requires you to listen to the whole thing in all its complete glory ever time you put the disc in your CD player.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Samedi
Format:Audio CD
This disc was BUILT for the dancefloor! Woo! Now, White Zombie were a GREAT party metal kinda band and Rob follows a similar path on his own but it is by no means the same stuff regurgitated. Hellbilly deluxe sees the songs constructed more often with the synths (which were there in Astrocreep too but to a lesser degree) and with a slightly less hardcore attitude to the grooves. This is more easy to pick up and play and rob's vocals are less rap-style than before. On a cursory listen it is just the same idea as before though: you get your gigantic riffs (not QUITE as good as J's riffing on Astrocreep) and your Hammer horror samples but I feel this may be more accessible to music fans who are slightly less metal-inclined. Bottom line is- yep, get it, it's great! But it aint as good as Astrocreep 2000.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Shkandrij
Format:Audio CD
Ever since the Murderdolls screamed their way onto our stereos, i've been a fan of this sort of metal. ROB ZOMBIE...ok so it's sort of corny, and so is the music come to think of it, but does metal really have to be serious to be good? No. Bands like System of a Down have proved that more then once, and Rob is about to show us the darker side of his talent.
Many would argue that he should never have left White Zombie, but Hellbilly Deluxe is his first solo album, and his proved that his a metal genius, and in my eyes is up there with the likes of Scott Hull (Pig Destroyer & AGNB) and Kurt kobain. mainly because he's taken some well known tunes and reproduced them into tracks such as DRAGULA with brilliant lyrics. Ok, so maybe they're not as obscene as Wednesday 13's from the Murderdolls, but when you blast them from your speakers, who cares??!!
Many would argue that he should never have left White Zombie, but Hellbilly Deluxe is his first solo album, and his proved that his a metal genius, and in my eyes is up there with the likes of Scott Hull (Pig Destroyer & AGNB) and Kurt kobain. mainly because he's taken some well known tunes and reproduced them into tracks such as DRAGULA with brilliant lyrics. Ok, so maybe they're not as obscene as Wednesday 13's from the Murderdolls, but when you blast them from your speakers, who cares??!!
Make sure you listen to Superbeast...the best track on the whole album!
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Always good
Mister Z knows what works and sticks to the plan. Another grinding, crunching, horror-film-influenced serving of cyber-metal from the man who owns the genre.
Published 1 day ago by Mr Gordon Bowie
3.0 out of 5 stars
Astro Creep Part 2 or Hellbilly Average?
I was very interested to hear where Rob Zombie would go after the break up of White Zombie, and was eager to hear if his stuff would take off where the flawless Astro Creep 2000... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mr. Stephen Lowe
4.0 out of 5 stars
Heavy and clever
Heavy zombie rock - clever and spooky at times & great heavy bass beats. Don't know the other LPs so can't. Ompare but enough great tracks to keep you hooked through out.
Published 15 months ago by Oobbee
5.0 out of 5 stars
Welcome to Zombie's Nightmare hahaha
I was always wondering what Rob Zombie's music sound liked ever since falling in love with his film 'House of 1000 Corpses and Devil's Rejects' then it wasn't until I found out... Read more
Published on 19 Jun 2008 by Mr. Ld Morris
3.0 out of 5 stars
frustrating listening
ok so rob zombie was a man who had a lot to prove with this release after white zombie had folded and as the obvious focal point for the fans we all waited eager to see what was... Read more
Published on 23 Mar 2008 by whitetrashtrixie
5.0 out of 5 stars
Awesome album
This is a defining album from Rob Zombie with great well awesome song like Dragula, Superbeast and living dead girl.
Published on 26 Sep 2007 by Mr. Laurence Hitchens
3.0 out of 5 stars
the poor man's astro creep 2000
Having been i fan of White Zombie previous to Rob zombie's solo career, i could not help but feel upon hearing the Hellbilly Deluxe back in 1998, that i was listening to a... Read more
Published on 27 Mar 2004 by E. A. Mullins
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good and Different
hellbilly Deluxe is obviously a change from most alternative albums, and is obviously a good change. Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2001
5.0 out of 5 stars
Comic horror metal! Doesn't get more appealing than this!
This is Rob Zombie's first solo album after he disbanded White Zombie, and boy is it good! Sure White Zombie were better, but Hellbilly Deluxe has the marketing appeal as well as... Read more
Published on 5 July 2001
5.0 out of 5 stars
Bow down to the might of Mr Zombie!
This album is almost a continuation of White Zombies massive 'Astro Creep 2000'. This will be an instant hit with all Zombie fans, but may need a more adventrous metal head to... Read more
Published on 7 April 2001
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