NEW YORK (Geffen press release) - The first career retrospective from Rob Zombie, king of the dark side, presents the best of the hard rocker. The two-disc set Past, Present &
Future (Geffen/UMe), released
September 23, 2003, brings together a CD of 19 digitally remastered selections - including two new recordings - and a DVD of 10 music videos, including three previously unreleased.
Produced by Zombie, who designed the 36-page booklet, the compilation features six Grammy-nominated tracks and spans his career from 1992 to 2003. CD selections include White Zombie and solo hits plus soundtrack rarities and two brand new songs recorded in July ("Two-Lane Blacktop" and "Girl On Fire"). The earlier 2003 tracks were culled from the soundtrack to the Zombie-directed hit horror flick House Of 1000 Corpses ("Pussy Liquor" and a collaboration with Lionel Richie and hardcore female rapper Trina on "Brick House 2003" Zombifying The Commodores '70s hit) and a cover of "Blitzkrieg Bop" from the Ramones tribute album We're A Happy Family produced by Johnny Ramone and Zombie.
All but one of the videos on the greatest hits DVD were directed by Zombie, including "More Human Than Human," a 1995 MTV Video Music Award winner for Best Hard Rock Video. The other previously released videos are for "Dragula," "Living Dead Girl," "Superbeast," "Never Gonna Stop (The Red Red Kroovy)," "Feel So Numb" and the non-Zombie-helmed "Thunder Kiss '65." The never-before-released videos are for the 1998 Hellbilly Deluxe songs "Demonoid Phenomenon," "Return Of The Phantom Stranger" and "Spookshow Baby."
In 1992, White Zombie made its major label debut on Geffen Records La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1, which spawned the Best Hard Rock Performance Grammy-nominated "Thunder Kiss '65" and "Black Sunshine" (with Iggy Pop) and went Top 40 and double platinum. Following "Feed The Gods" on the 1994 Airheads soundtrack, 1995's Astro-Creep: 2000 Songs Of Love, Destruction And Other Synthetic Delusions Of The Electric Head, with "Super Charger Heaven," ranked Top 10, was again triple platinum and earned two Grammy nominations, including Best Hard Rock Performance for "More Human Than Human."
Zombie was Grammy-nominated twice in 1996, once for his "Hands Of Death (Burn Baby Burn)" duet with Alice Cooper (Alice Cooper's first ever nomination) on "The X-Files" TV series soundtrack and again for "I'm Your Boogie Man" from The Crow: City Of Angels. Another hit movie track is "The Great American Nightmare," which teamed him with Howard Stern on the latter's 1997 autobiography Private Parts.
1998's Hellbilly Deluxe: 13 Tales Of Cadaverous Cavorting Inside The Spookshow International starred "Superbeast," "Living Dead Girl" and "Dragula," and went Top 5 and triple platinum. 2001's The Sinister Urge, with "Feel So Numb," "Demon Speeding" and "Never Gonna Stop (The Red Red Kroovy)," debuted Top 10 and went platinum.
On Past, Present & Future, Rob Zombie's frightful vision proves timeless and unending.
