White Zombie Packs It In

09/24/1998 3:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(9/23/98, 12 p.m. PDT) - In a move expected with the recent release of Rob Zombie's solo album, Hellbilly Deluxe, White Zombie, the group that Zombie once fronted, has decided to call it a day.

"After 13 years, White Zombie has accomplished everything we set out to do," the band's members said in a statement, "and we felt it was time to move on."

Other than the White Zombie faithful, it's doubtful that anyone will notice that the group is no more, considering that Rob Zombie's solo album sounds an awful lot like White Zombie. "It's not like it's this whole other thing that I wanted to do," Zombie recently told myLAUNCH. "It's still me, the way White Zombie was me, it's just with some different people playing. In some ways if I played it for you and said, 'Here's the new White Zombie record,' you probably wouldn't even know the difference" (myLAUNCH, 9/2).

During its career, White Zombie scored two multi-platinum albums--La Sexorcisto Devil Music Vol. One and Astro-Creep: 200 Songs Of Love, Destruction And Other Synthetic Delusions Of The Electric Head. The band--whose final lineup included Zombie, guitarist J., bassist Sean Yseult and drummer JohnTempesta--also received two Grammy Awards nominations for Best Hard Rock Performance.

Zombie's solo effort bowed at No. 5 on the chart last month. This week the album is at No. 17.

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