ROB ZOMBIE – The Great Satan (2026) *HQ*
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There are artists who follow trends, and there are artists who build their own grotesque universes and dare the world to enter. ROB ZOMBIE has always belonged to the second category. Long before he became a filmmaker or a solo icon, he was already crafting a sonic horror carnival with White Zombie, a band that did not merely ride the wave of the early ’90s metal explosion, but twisted it into something theatrical and unapologeatically bizarre.
When White Zombie emerged from the underground in the late ’80s, they were less a traditional metal band and more a collision of comic-book horror, groove metal, psychedelic noise and grindhouse aesthetics. By the time ‘La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One’ exploded in 1992, tracks like “Thunder Kiss ’65” were not just songs, they were statements. I don’t know you, but we love that White Zombie album – it’s crazy, heavy and a lot of fun.
Good news are that with his upcoming new album “The Great Satan“, ROB ZOMBIE revisits the raw “Sexorcisto / Hellbilly” DNA that first defined his punk-infused heavy rock with thick grooves and chant-ready choruses designed for packed summer stages.
Yeah, “The Great Satan” is catchy as… Hell.
The album is populated by serial killer, horror film characters: the bombastic ‘Tarantula’, the thrashing villain ‘The Black Scorpion’. ‘Sir Lord Acid Wolfman’ breaks up the heavy riffing with a neat little swing to the drums. The band slows down for the groove thunder of ‘The Devilman’, hardly a new idea for Zombie but delivered with the conviction few can pull off.
This kind of story telling has been Zombie’s forte for decades now, The Great Satan’s freshness comes from the aggressive metal of ‘(I’m A) Rock n Roller’ and the mighty ‘Heathen Days’. I’d argue both tracks would feature strongly on any of his albums going back to AstroCreep 2000, with their layered sound effects contrasting with the guitar and thumping drums.
The other one you want to check out is the counterculture tribute ‘Revolution Motherfuckers’, with some sweet drum fills by Ginger Fish, and an immediately catchy bridge and chorus.
This is Zombie at full bore: snatches of movie dialogue and trailers mixed with a musical wall of screaming guitars and stabs of distorted synth. Oddly archaic yet thoroughly modern. Which is to say he still sounds pretty timeless, and especially good on the thundering ‘Out Of Sight’ and the tenacious sounding ‘Black Rat Coffin’.
No one does it like Zombie.
Highly Recommended
01 – F.T.W. 84
02 – Tarantula
03 – (I’m a) Rock “N” Roller
04 – Heathen Days
05 – Who Am I?
06 – Black Rat Coffin
07 – Sir Lord Acid Wolfman
08 – Punks And Demons
09 – The Devilman
10 – Out Of Sight
11 – Revolution Motherfuckers
12 – Welcome To The Electric Age
13 – The Black Scorpion
14 – Unclean Animals
15 – Grave Discontent
Rob Zombie – vocals, all instruments
Riggs – guitar
Blasko – bass
Ginger Fish – drums
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