Legendary Rock Songs: MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN: WHITE ZOMBIE.
Hello my people I hope you are all super well for this great platform, I haven't shared anything for a while, because I have been working, but here I am again, in this sense I have decided to take up again what are the magazines and articles, since this blog is also about that, one thing that I love because years ago when there was no internet, to know about our favorite artists and bands we had to buy magazines, and that's what I did, so I have a lot of magazines that are now very classic, and I want to bring you here each of their articles.
And I start with a session that I titled: “The Legendary Rock Songs”, which talks about those songs of the super legendary rock bands that we still enjoy today. I hope you like this project and enjoy each article. Blessings.
Theme: More Human Than Human.
Disc: Astro-Creep:2000. Songs Of Love, Destruction And Other Synthetic Delusions Of The Electric Head.
Year: 1995
The 90's were the great decade of change for the hard sounds, but surely few thought that metal and electronic music would one day form a single musical conception. Thanks to bands like Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Fear Factory or the ones we are talking about, disbelief became a palpable reality. White Zombie were one of the great surprises and discoveries of those years, an enormously attractive band that carried with them the whole universe of the American underground culture, of the “trash” art, and knew how to capture it to perfection in their music.
Make no mistake, they were a hardcore combo with all the letters, but they knew how to find that spark of “freak” pride to create an eclectic appeal that had already been represented in “La Sexocisto: Devil Music Vol 1”, but that settled as a way of expression in this second volume of demonic music. Here Alice Cooper, Kiss and Black Sabbath were as important as horror movies, b-movies, science fiction magazines and the most gruesome comic books.
Various little monsters roamed freely in the booklets of their albums, drawings born from the mind and hands of Rob Zombie, their charismatic leader. “More Human Than Human” was their particular dissertation, stupid and funny in equal parts, about those transformations from monster to human and vice versa that they had enjoyed so much watching in black and white in old videotapes and cult films of the genre.
An apocalyptic and incredible song, with a resounding and damaging sound and a powerful and noisy instrumental consistency, preceded by a synthesizer intro over which you could hear sexual female moans and one of Rob Zombie's usual “yeahs!”, giving way to the distorted display of J's guitar and the dark and crunchy rhythmic base of Sean Yseult and John Tempesta, backed by samplers, soniquetes, and various electronic resources.
The song became a radio favorite and a regular feature on MTV programming, as it featured a music video in which the band displayed all their terrifying and sexual imagery that would make them enormously popular on both sides of the Atlantic, although they always restricted their performance field to the American market, where “Astro-Creep: 2000” had achieved an unexpected sixth position in the charts. The song, along with nine other tracks from the album, had its obligatory indutrialoid remix on the remix album that Mr. Zombie liked so much, “Supersexy Swingin” “Sounds”, which inexplicably was the last of a group that despite the tremendous success was defeated by their internal discord. The invasion of the zombies was closer than ever for some time.
I hope you like this new project and see you in a future edition of “Legendary Rock Songs (LRS). A Thousand Blessings.
