Like the latest installment of {|Nightmare on Elm Street|}, Rob Zombie's work guarantees familiar spills and chills that get the adrenaline pumping in the same fashion. The Sinister Urge is no exception with its hot-rod horror, demonic apparitions and, of course, neck-snapping riffs that zip readily between surf-thrash, industrial punk, and unreconstructed sludge....
Read moreLike the latest installment of {|Nightmare on Elm Street|}, Rob Zombie's work guarantees familiar spills and chills that get the adrenaline pumping in the same fashion. The Sinister Urge is no exception with its hot-rod horror, demonic apparitions and, of course, neck-snapping riffs that zip readily between surf-thrash, industrial punk, and unreconstructed sludge. Zombie burrows down into his trash culture collection for inspiration here, emerging with handfuls of hillbilly horror on the mechanized two-step "Scum of the Earth" and the eerily echoing "Bring Her Down (to Crippletown)." While those tunes keep up the wall-of-skronk front first erected with his old outfit {|White Zombie|}, wide swaths of The Sinister Urge prove that Rob knows a catchy tune when he hears one. The speed-demon sing-along "Dead Girl Superstar" pulses with an anarchic attitude that wouldn't have been out of place on, say, Alice Cooper's {|Billion Dollar Babies|}; the set-ending "House of 1000 Corpses," on the other hand, sounds like the result of {|Danzig|} and the {|Cramps|} taking a spin in a psychic blender. Kindred spirit {|Ozzy Osbourne|} pitches in on the bulldozing "Iron Head," and while the Wizard is always a welcome guest, Zombie doesn't sound like he needs too much help in airing and spreading his particular brand of menace.
Brand: GEFFEN RECORDS
