First as a founding member of the ground-breaking band White Zombie and later as an even more successful solo artist with the release of Hellbilly Deluxe. In 1985 Rob Zombie began his multi-genre brand of musical and visual horror. For most listeners, it doesn't matter if Hellbilly Deluxe is technically a White Zombie or Rob Zombie album, since it delivers the goods, arguably even better than Astro-Creep: 2000. This is the Officially Licensed Rob Zombie Hellbilly Brew. ![]() Since White Zombie was always his baby, it seems a little strange that he had the need to break away from the group, especially since the album sounds exactly like a White Zombie record, complete with thunderous industrial rhythms, drilling metal guitars, and B-movie obsessions. He did extracurricular animation, managed a band, started a record label, drew a sequence in Beavis & Butt-Head Do America, appeared in films, wrote the script for The Crow 3 (which he planned to direct), and most tellingly of all, he recorded a solo album, Hellbilly Deluxe. ![]() Stopping short of breaking up the band, Zombie set out to make sure everyone know that he was the main force in the band, as if there were any doubt in the first place. Each track video is credited to Rob Zombie’s direction. Just as White Zombie was on the verge of becoming the most popular metal band in the land, Rob Zombie decided he was an auteur. On November 22, 2005, Rob Zombie re-released Hellbilly Deluxeas a Deluxe Edition a CD+DVD combo which included videos recorded for each of the 13 tracks, as well as 2 bonus tracks.
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