Band That Released Four Albums Offering New Box Set; In Other News, Record Labels Have To Eat, Too
White Zombie released four playfully-schlocky party rock albums in the 90s, setting a much-needed counterpoint to the wrist-slitting self-importance of the grunge movement and its dumbed-down alt-rock spinoffs. "Fresh air," doesn't begin to describe the effect of hearing songs like Thunder Kiss '65, off of their platinum-certified third record, La Sexorcisto, after hours spent bathing in bleak dirges about straw-haired singers sleeping under bridges and kids named Jeremy making exceedingly poor life decisions in class today. Still, once you got past the disco-powered horror rock vibe of La Sexorcisto, you realised that you had reached their tip of White Zombie's creative summit. There would be no further heights to scale, no ballads, no extreme metal voyaging nor any self-indulgent jazz odysseys. All of which was just fine. Astro-Creep: 2000 — their fourth and final album – served up more of the same, including the industrial dance floor belter, More Human Than Human, but their ambitions had already played out — this was simply giving the people more of what they wanted. White Zombie broke up in 1998 and frontman Rob Zombie went on to build a nifty little fiefdom for himself in music and film.Numero Group is now offering up White Zombie box sets in the usual panoply of configurations — vinyl, limited run coloured vinyl (because we learned in economics class that he who controls the supply controls the price), CD and MP3, along with head-spinning extras combinations including books, um... something called a "T-shirtography" and some "tales from the terrifying early years." So basically this box set (priced between $30 and $100) speaks to the unquenchable White Zombie fan who also collects vinyl, because presumably belonging in the first category means that you've already got all of their music. On the plus side, the 39 tracks 
have been mastered by White Zombie bassist Sean Yseult. For more ambitious and price-conscious White Zombie maniacs, other outside-the-box (see what I did there?) alternative exist — for example, you can pick up their final two albums for less than $14 total on iTunes and Joel McIver's stupidly-addictive new Rob Zombie biography on Amazon for between $13 and $20. Throw in a used copy of Sean Yseult's biography, I'm in The Band: Backstage Notes From The Chick In White Zombie and you've got your own neat little box set for a fraction of the price. Want the uber deluxe edition of your own box set? We've got you covered! Hop on eBay for a range of signed Rob Zombie photos, hard to find albums and other kooky collectible shit.Numero Group is accepting pre-orders now. Click here for more info. Or just check this shit out here for their description of the set:
Years before Beavis and Butt-head headbanged “Thunder Kiss ’65” and “More Human than Human” into the eternal rock video canon, there was primordial White Zombie—a quintessential, diabolically loud byproduct of Manhattan’s underground rock scene, born of art-school rendezvous and squalid apartment circumstance. It Came From N.Y.C. is the most exhaustive attempt so far to document the band’s wondrously ugly birth. Get reintroduced to White Zombie as New York noise-rock, a grotesque creation that clawed and threatened its way to crossover metal glory. On June 3rd 2016, Numero resurrects White Zombie’s eternally out-of-print early EPs and LPs as It Came From N.Y.C. Spread across five LPs or three compact discs, all 39 tracks have been remastered by guitarist J. Yuenger and packaged alongside the original lurid artwork. The accompanying 108-page book painstakingly documents White Zombie’s punishing progression through scores of unpublished photos, period discography, a T-shirtography, and tales from the terrifying early years that stitch together the sordid story of a band whose true power eclipsed its mainstream heyday. White Zombie lives. Don’t be afraid.