La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One is the third album by metal band White Zombie, released on March 17, 1992 through Geffen Records. It was the band's last album to feature drummer Ivan de Prume.
Album information
The album's sound is a mix of groove metal and heavy metal with multiple B-movie samples. Rob Zombie explained he "wanted to keep a groovable dance element in the music", a trait which is often absent in metal music. Contrary to rumors, a "Devil Music Volume Two" was never planned for recording or release. Almost every song on the album made an appearance on the 1994 video game Way of the Warrior.
Release and reception
La Sexorcisto was both a critical and commercial success for White Zombie, climbing up the charts in the US and gaining massive MTV video airplay and mainstream rock radio airplay with "Thunder Kiss '65" and "Black Sunshine". Although released in early 1992, La Sexorcisto did not enter the Billboard 200 until 1993,[5] after the success of "Thunder Kiss '65", which reached number 26 on the Mainstream Rock chart.[6] It was certified Double Platinum by the RIAA, and gold by the CRIA.
Jacob N. Lunders of Allmusic praised the album with 4.5 out of 5 stars and claimed "Perhaps co-defining the future of heavy metal, White Zombie's major-label debut nearly equals fellow classics Guns N' Roses's Appetite for Destruction, The Cult's Electric, and Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger in significance".[2]
Touring and promotion
White Zombie toured for two years to promote La Sexorcisto. The tour was a critical success and some archived footage of the shows can be seen on the Let Sleeping Corpses Lie DVD. White Zombie began a five-month U.S. tour in April 1992, supporting such bands as My Sister's Machine, Paw, Testament, Pantera, Trouble and Crowbar.[7] In the fall of 1992, the band opened for Danzig on their How the Gods Kill tour in Europe and the United States, and wrapped up the year doing a brief U.S. tour, again supporting Pantera.[7] White Zombie spent most of 1993 and 1994 touring non-stop in support of La Sexorcisto. They toured with Monster Magnet in February and March 1993, and with Anthrax and Quicksand that summer.[7] White Zombie embarked on two more U.S. tours: one with Chemlab and Nudeswirl in the fall of 1993, and another with Prong and The Obsessed in early 1994.[7] The La Sexorcisto tour concluded in May 1994 with four Japanese shows, which were supported by Pantera.[7]
Accolades
| Year |
Publication |
Country |
Accolade |
Rank |
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| 1996 | Visions | Germany |
"The Eternal Readers Charts" | 36 | [8] |
| 2006 | Rock Sound | United Kingdom |
"Les 150 Albums De La Génération" | 95 | [9] |
| 2005 | Rock Hard | Germany |
"The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time" | 282 | [10] |
Track listing
All lyrics written by Rob Zombie, all music composed by White Zombie.
| 1. |
"Welcome to Planet Motherfucker/Psychoholic Slag" |
6:21 |
| 2. |
"Knuckle Duster (Radio 1-A)" |
0:21 |
| 3. |
"Thunder Kiss '65" |
3:53 |
| 4. |
"Black Sunshine" |
4:49 |
| 5. |
"Soul-Crusher" |
5:07 |
| 6. |
"Cosmic Monsters Inc." |
5:13 |
| 7. |
"Spiderbaby (Yeah-Yeah-Yeah)" |
5:01 |
| 8. |
"I Am Legend" |
5:08 |
| 9. |
"Knuckle Duster (Radio 2-B)" |
0:25 |
| 10. |
"Thrust!" |
5:04 |
| 11. |
"One Big Crunch" |
0:21 |
| 12. |
"Grindhouse (A Go-Go)" |
4:05 |
| 13. |
"Starface" |
5:02 |
| 14. |
"Warp Asylum" |
6:44 |
Total length: |
57:30 |
Some pressings of the CD incorrectly divide tracks 12 and 13, beginning track 13 at 3:31 of "Grindhouse (A Go-Go)."
Sample overview
| # |
Title |
Samples[11] |
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| 1 |
"Welcome to Planet Motherfucker/Psychoholic Slag" |
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| 2 |
"Knuckle Duster (Radio 1-A)" |
- 0:02 - "Ahorre, no compre sin visitar Empori..." is taken from a radio ad in Spanish. Translates to "Save, don't buy without visiting Empori.."
- 0:07 - "We know how fast we can go" is taken from the 1965 cult film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
- 0:17 - "These are the facts as we know them. There is an epidemic of mass murders being committed by a virtual army of unidentified assassins" is taken from the 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead during a radio broadcast.
- 0:17 - The screaming in the background (sans falling lumber) is from the first scene of "True Confessions of Tori Welles" (with Tori Welles and Jerry Butler), approximately 10 minutes in.
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| 3 |
"Thunder Kiss '65" |
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| 4 |
"Black Sunshine" |
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| 5 |
"Soul-Crusher" |
-- |
| 6 |
"Cosmic Monsters Inc." |
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| 7 |
"Spiderbaby (Yeah-Yeah-Yeah)" |
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| 8 |
"I Am Legend" |
-- |
| 9 |
"Knuckle Duster (Radio 2-B)" |
- 0:00 - "Now, what we have to ask is why is it that God has admonished us to hate evil? Well, first of all, God loves ..." from a sermon by Atlanta pastor, Dr. Charles Stanley (pastor).
- 0:09 - "Y cuando tu vuelvas.." Daniel Santos - "Como se van las noches"
- 0:14 - "... And strangled them and finally dismembered their bodies"
- 0:20 - "homelessness and all that ..." sample are the words of the American radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
- 0:21 - "And now, the voice you've been waiting for ..."
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| 10 |
"Thrust!" |
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| 11 |
"One Big Crunch" |
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| 12 |
"Grindhouse (A Go-Go)" |
-- |
| 13 |
"Starface" |
- 0:00 - "One. One is the beginning..." and "Oh Herbert, you are stiff!" samples from the beginning and end of the song are taken from the 1969 episode of Star Trek: The Original Series entitled "The Way to Eden"
- 0:18 - "X minus 5 seconds..." sample is taken from the 1950 science fiction film Rocketship X-M
- 2:27 - In the background there is an eerie jingle playing, this is from 1979's Phantasm (film). This sound effect was used earlier as the shuttlecraft interior sound effects throughout the run of the aforementioned Star Trek: The Original Series. (On the album "Star Trek: Sound Effects from the Original TV Soundtrack", it is Track 69-- do a search for "shuttlecraft interior" on YouTube for confirmation.)
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| 14 |
"Warp Asylum" |
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Personnel
Band members
Technical crew
- Kristin Callahan - photography
- David Carpenter - assistant engineer
- Alison Dyer - photography
- Michael Golob - art direction, photoshop artist
- Iggy Pop - additional vocals ("Black Sunshine")
- Andy Wallace - producer, engineer, mixing
- Howie Weinberg - mastering
Chart positions
References
- ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/black-sunshine-mr0002892474
- 1 2 Lunders, Jacob N. "((( La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 > Review )))". Allmusic. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
- ↑ Brackett, Nathan. "White Zombie". November 2004. pg. 870, cited March 17, 2010.
- ↑ Deese, Uwe. "Rock Hard review". issue 60. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
- ↑ "La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 - White Zombie : Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
- ↑ "White Zombie - Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "White Zombie Tour Dates". metallipromo.com. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
- ↑ "Visions - The Eternal Readers Charts". Visions. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
- ↑ "Rock Sound - Les 150 Albums De La Génération". Rock Sound. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
- ↑ [...], Rock Hard (Hrsg.). [Red.: Michael Rensen. Mitarb.: Götz Kühnemund] (2005). Best of Rock & Metal die 500 stärksten Scheiben aller Zeiten. Königswinter: Heel. p. 99. ISBN 3-89880-517-4.
- ↑ "White Zombie's Sample-Based Music". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2015-09-29.
- 1 2 "White Zombie – Billboard Albums". Allmusic. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
- 1 2 "White Zombie – Billboard Singles". Allmusic. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
- ↑ White Zombie in New Zealand Charts. Charts.Org.NZ. Retrieved on June 3, 2009.
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