Rob Zombie's "Hellbilly Deluxe 2" CD/Album

[Gillman-Fan]

Anyone bought/listened to this yet?

[zombiehorror]

Yep, I posted this in the Whats the last song you listened to today?? thread.

Hellbilly Deluxe 2~album

I finally got to sit down and listen to the entire Hellbilly Deluxe 2 cd.  If you like Rob Zombie then you'll dig it.  There is a definite return to heavy metal, I'm hearing alot of Sabbath influence.  It still retains the groove stuff that's always been present in White/Rob Zombie's stuff but it's not as overdone as some of his later releases.

I wasn't to hip on hearing the album was being titled Hellbilly Deluxe 2 but after hearing the album I think it fits perfectly.  It's a definite return to something more closely resembling the songs and sounds on that initial release.

[Memphremagog]

I got this last week and have given it several listenings now. A nice return to form for Mr.Zombie!

[Gillman-Fan]

Sorry, ZH. I did a quick search to see if anyone else had brought this up already and saw nothing.

I've not listened to this new CD myself.

[BlackLagoon]

Didnt get it yet, but I will. What I heard I like, sounds pretty good.

I own and like Hellbilly Deluxe...but its a different kinda like. I mean its cool...but I dont think musically Rob will ever top what he did with White Zombie's: Devil music vol 1....

Grunge was pretty much in control at that point and Sonic Youth and Pearl Jam were making me want to commit suicide....White Zombie came out at the right time and released that along the same time Pantera's "Far Beyond Driven" and Slayer's "Divine Intervention" came out. A breathe of new found fresh air to me!.......those 3 cds are just iconic to my high school years.

Way off topic, but yes I look forward to picking this up!

[zombiehorror]

I would definitely say that La Sexorcisto, as well as Astro Creep 2000, are more accessible to a heavy metal crowd as opposed to Rob's "solo" stuff.  Hellbilly Deluxe really started the more groove inspired music and put off alot of Zombie fans.

I picked up La Sexorcisto way back in the late spring/early summer of 92.  I was in the Army stationed in California, middle of the desert, Fort Irwin, and was lucky enough to have an Army buddy that was from Ventura.  One day we went to his favorite local record store and while perusing around I came across La Sexorcisto.  Purely based on the cd front/back I bought it, me buddy was less enthused about this blind purchase.  He drove to a local beach to do some surfing while I sat in his truck opening up my cd and popping it in his player.....Holy sh*t!  I couldn't believe what I was hearing it was killer.  After he got done surfing and came back to the truck he could tell I was impressed with the cd.  So he gave it a listen and quickly agreed that this was something different and worth listening to.

It just so happened that Danzig was playing Irvine Meadows that Halloween with White Zombie opening.  Me and 3 other Army buddies made the drive to Irvine Halloween morning, some of us (myself included) had just completed our 12 mile-3 hour road march to qualify for our Expert Infantryman Badge earlier (and I mean early) that morning but there was no way we were missing that show.

It was my first concert and an unforgettable one at that, not just because it was Danzig but because it was my first taste of White Zombie in concert.  This was before all the stage stuff, it was just the band and the music and it was excellent.  After Danzig's set he came out for an encore of Halloween II and some people came out with cloaks and goat masks on.  It turned out those people were none other than the member's of White Zombie and Rob joined in on Halloween II.  The whole show was professionally shot and I hope to one day be able to relive the memory when the footage sees the light of day.

Then of course in 93 White Zombie would go on to get a few clips on Beavis & Butthead opening them up to a wider audience.

[BlackLagoon]

Then of course in 93 White Zombie would go on to get a few clips on Beavis & Butthead opening them up to a wider audience.

That sounds like a hell of a show...I'm a HUUUUUUGE Misfits fan and Halloween II would have been worth the price of admisson for me...especially then, when we were really Misfit starved.

Cant forget about White Zombie's most excellent "I Am Hell" from the Beavis and Butthead cd! Great stuff!

[raycastile]

I've listened to it several times since buying it a few days ago.  As soon as it ends, I just start playing it again from the top.  I like the first half of the album more than the second half.  The first four songs are the best.  It dips a little in the middle, then picks up again with Werewolf Women of the SS.  I'm not too crazy about the "epic" drum solo in The Man Who Laughs.  I think it would have been a stronger song, and a stronger album climax, without the solo.  But it's still a good song.

The album is a nice return to Rob's earlier style, but I had no problem with the direction he was taking in Educated Horses.  I think you can hear some of that "Horses" influence in this album.  It is not a complete throwback to his 90s era, and that's good.  I don't want an imitation of his past work.

[zombiehorror]

The album is a nice return to Rob's earlier style, but I had no problem with the direction he was taking in Educated Horses.

People love to build artist's up but they love more to tear them down...God forbid a musician try to broaden his talent.  Educated horses is an excellent album, not only that but it really isn't such a far stretch from his other stuff.  And I think it'll be an album that alot of fans may have disliked at first but years later they'll listen and think, "Damn this really is a great album.".  There are definitely 2 songs that are "zombie" style; American Witch would fit on any previous Rob Zombie release and Let It All Bleed Out could actually have been a White Zombie song.  But even the rest of the songs found on the album, at least to me, are just full versions of alot of bridges that both White Zombie and Rob Zombie songs have featured.  Alot of previous "Zombie" songs have included slower instrumental parts but are usually surrounded by the heavy metal or groove metal that the fans love or they came at the end of a song.  If he would have taken any of those songs and just scattered them out over different releases mixing them in with typical "zombie" styled stuff no one probably would have complained.

My only complaint about Educated Horses is the booklet design; Where is his make-up?  Where are the cartoons?  The Devils?  The Ghouls?  Well at least Sheri is still on every other page......LOL!

[The Creeper]

I bought the new cd the day it came out and I like it!  I like it better then Educated Horses.  I always liked his harder stuff and it seems he is heading back in that direction!

[steve050305]

I really enjoyed it