WHITE ZOMBIE: "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" 4CD/DVD Box Set
 

White Zombie Laid To Rest On Boxed Set

Assembling the White Zombie boxed set "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" was "weird" and somewhat bittersweet for Rob Zombie.

"The funny thing was when I was putting it together, it seemed so long ago," Zombie told Billboard.com. "It felt like I was putting together a box set of someone else's band. It just seemed like forever ago, and some of the early songs are, like, 20 years ago or something. It just seemed weird."

Zombie said that compiling four-CD, one-DVD collection, which includes 63 tracks and a wealth of rare video footage and other memorabilia he's held onto, "brought up a lot of things I'd forgotten about -- unfortunately, some of it was negative." He was particularly reminded of the waning days of the band, when the group members would tour in separate vehicles and not see each other except at shows. None of the other band members were involved in the set.

"The main reason White Zombie ended was the people who were White Zombie didn't get along anymore," said Zombie, adding that he finished the group's final show in 1996, walked off stage, into a car, went to the airport and "didn't look back.

"That band had a lot of growing pains and a lot of baggage all the way through. I think we did a lot of good stuff and we were ahead of the curve in the beginning and did some groundbreaking stuff. But it was a painful situation most of the time, actually."

Nevertheless, Zombie hopes "Let Sleeping Corpses Lie" -- pointedly titled, he acknowledged, for those who might wonder about a White Zombie reunion -- will feed the appetites of younger generations of fans that continue to come along.

"I can see it, strangely enough, in the royalty checks. Every year the band makes more money," Zombie said. "Hot Topic is doing a new line of White Zombie merch. It's just one of those things that happens, I think. There's always a new wave of kids that gets super-jazzed on a band that's not around anymore."

Zombie, meanwhile, is working on his next studio album, which he predicts will be finished by Christmas and out in 2009. The sessons did yield the new songs "War Zone," which is featured in the soundtrack to "The Punisher: War Zone."

Zombie also just finished the animated film "The Haunted World of El Superbeasto" and hopes to get cracking on his fourth feature film, "Tyrannosaurus Rex," in the new year.


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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. GENTLEMAN JUNKIE
2. KING OF SOULS
3. TALES FROM THE SCARECROWMAN
4. CAT'S EYE RESURRECTION
5. PIG HEAVEN
6. SLAUGHTER THE GREY
7. EIGHTY-EIGHT
8. FAST JUNGLE
9. GUN CRAZY
10. KICK
11. MEMPHIS
12. MAGDALENE
13. TRUE CRIME

Disc: 2
1. RATMOUTH
2. SHACK OF HATE
3. DROWNING THE COLOSSUS
4. CROW III
5. DIE, ZOMBIE, DIE
6. SKIN
7. TRUCK ON FIRE
8. FUTURE-SHOCK
9. SCUMKILL
10. DIAMOND ASS
11. DEMONSPEED
12. DISASTER BLASTER
13. MURDERWORLD
14. REVENGE
15. ACID FLESH
16. POWER HUNGRY
17. GODSLAYER

Disc: 3
1. GOD OF THUNDER
2. LOVE RAZOR
3. DISASTER BLASTER 2
4. WELCOME TO PLANET MF
5. KNUCKLE DUSTER
6. THUNDER KISS '65
7. BLACK SUNSHINE
8. SOUL-CRUSHER
9. COSMIC MONSTER
10. SPIDERBABY
11. I AM LEGEND
12. KNUCKLE DUSTER 2
13. THRUST!
14. ONE BIG CRUNCH
15. GRINDHOUSE
16. STARFACE
17. WARP ASYLUM
18. I AM HELL

Disc: 4
1. CHILDREN OF THE GRAVE
2. FEED THE GODS
3. ELECTRIC HEAD - PT. I
4. SUPER CHARGER HEAVEN
5. REAL SOLUTION #9
6. CREATURE OF THE WHEEL
7. ELECTRIC HEAD - PT. II
8. GREASE PAINT AND MONKEY BRAINS
9. I ZOMBIE
10. MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN
11. EL PHANTASMO
12. BLUR THE TECHNICOLOR
13. BLOOD MILK AND SKY
14. THE ONE
15. I'M YOUR BOOGIEMAN
16. RATFINKS, SUICIDE TANKS AND CANNIBAL GIRLS

Disc: 5
1. THUNDER KISS '65 (Video)
2. BLACK SUNSHINE (Video)
3. WELCOME TO PLANET MOTHERFUCKER (Video)
4. FEED THE GODS (Video)
5. MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN (Video)
6. SUPER-CHARGER HEAVEN (Video)
7. ELECTRIC HEAD - PT. II (THE ECSTASY) (Video)
8. I'M YOUR BOOGIEMAN (Video)
9. THE ONE (Video)
10. SOUL-CRUSHER (Live)
11. SPIDERBABY (YEAH YEAH YEAH) (Live)
12. THRUST! (Live)
13. BLACK SUNSHINE (Live)
14. COSMIC MONSTERS INC. (Live)
15. THUNDERKISS '65 (Live)
16. ELECTRIC HEAD - PT. I (THE AGONY) (Live)
17. I AM HELL (Live)
18. WELCOME TO PLANET MOTHERFUCKER (Live)
19. CREATURE OF THE WHEEL (Live)


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Thanks for the heads up, this has been out since Thanksgiving and I did not know about it!

Bah! The first 2 1/2 CD's in this set are HORRIBLE! The live stuff is not very good either, just another sub-par Zombie album.