Hellbilly Deluxe

Hellbilly Deluxe
Studio album by Rob Zombie
Released	August 25, 1998 (1998-08-25)
Recorded	Chop Shop Hollywood, California
Genre	Heavy metal, Shock metal, Groove metal
Length	38:23
Label	Geffen
Producer	Rob Zombie, Scott Humphrey
Professional reviews
Allmusic link Rolling Stone link Entertainment Weekly (C+) 8/18/98 Legends Magazine link Yahoo! Music (favorable) link
Rob Zombie chronology
Hellbilly Deluxe (1998) American Made Music to Strip By (1999)

Hellbilly Deluxe (sometimes referred to by its full title Hellbilly Deluxe: 13 Tales Of Cadaverous Cavorting Inside The Spookshow International) is the debut solo album by the former White Zombie singer Rob Zombie, released on August 25, 1998. The album's title is a play on the Dwight Yoakam album Hillbilly Deluxe. Zombie's debut effort met with considerable success and featured numerous popular singles, in particular, "Dragula" and "Living Dead Girl."

The album features the heavy guitar/bass and twisted, often violent horror themes of White Zombie, but it also reveals elements unique to Rob Zombie's solo career. For example, songs often feature a more danceable groove and electronic sounds/vocal overdubbing. In October 1999, Rob Zombie released a Hellbilly Deluxe remix album, American Made Music to Strip By.

On September 14th 2009 it was announced that Rob Zombie would embark on the Hellbilly Deluxe 2 Tour, which is in support of his forthcoming album "Hellbilly Deluxe 2: Noble Jackals, Penny Dreadfuls and the Systematic Dehumanization of Cool" which is stated to be a companion to the original album as per his website.

Reception

• Rolling Stone (9/3/98, p.102) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - "...pulverizing hard-rock riffs propelled by drums and electronic percussion, a sonic assault that, under all the bombast, is as meticulously arranged as any Whitney Houston track..."

• Allmusic - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...it delivers the goods, arguably even better than Astro-Creep: 2000. To outsiders, the entire schlock enterprise may seem ridiculous or sound monotonous, but even the weak cuts here hit hard and give fans exactly what they want."

• Entertainment Weekly - C+ - "It's all a little creepy, to be sure, but Zombie's cartoonish antics are too over-the-top to really get under your skin."

Artwork

The album's song titles and the art of the label and lyric book bespeak Zombie's fascination with classic horror films and tropes.

The album was re-released in 2005, with a DVD containing a music video for every song as well as brand-new artwork. While Zombie directed the music videos, some fans showed disliking for the artwork by Austrian chef Jörg Fercher, in which Zombie took no part.

Other media

• A remix of the song (Hot Rod Herman remix) "Dragula" was included on the soundtrack to the 1999 film The Matrix and the 2000 film Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2.
• A remix (Hot Rod Herman remix) of "Dragula" was used the video game Twisted Metal 4 and featured Rob Zombie as a playable character.
• The Play Station game Sled Storm used the Hot Rod Herman remix of "Dragula" during the intro, it was also part of the game soundtrack.
• "Superbeast" and "Meet the Creeper" are featured in the video game "Twisted Metal 3"
• The song "Living Dead Girl" was used in the opening credits for Bride of Chucky in 1998.
• "Spookshow Baby" was featured in the 1998's Horror Urban Legend.
• Demonoid Phenomenon and several other tracks from the album were used in the videogame Nightmare Creatures II in 2000, Demonoid Phenomenon being used for the game's opening cinematic.
• In the Malcolm In The Middle episode Home Alone 4, Richie is seen wearing a Hellbilly Deluxe T-shirt.
• The track "Superbeast" is part of the soundtrack in the game Brutal Legend.
• The tracks "Dragula" and "Superbeast" were released as downloadable content on October 27, 2009 for the Rock Band series.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Rob Zombie and Scott Humphrey, unless specifed otherwise.

• Danny Lohner - Additional Guitar on Meet the Creeper.

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)