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Since
Hollywood, Universal to be more precise, sent Rob Zombie and
his suitcase full of buxom green demons and hot rod racing
ghouls packing when they decided not to release his grandiose
guts and goo horror piece House of 1000 Corpses it was only
a matter of time until the dreadlocked demon would sink his
fangs back into the music industry's jugular. Trash culture
icon Rob Zombie has shaken up the junkyard once again and
out came eleven tracks of industrial strength sludge bearing
the name The Sinister Urge the follow up to his last album
of original material 1998's Hellbilly Deluxe.
White
Zombie fans and now Rob Zombie fans know what to expect when
the leader of Satan's pit crew gets under the belly of the
beast to construct a new album. Plenty of industrial chug-a-chug
guitar with drum beats that plow inexorabley through the bowels
of the record and Zombie's vocals still grind and shred like
a hot rod in fourth gear on a track of gravel.
Zombie
albums play much like a series of horror movies. The original
was good but each sequel is a little less engaging. Hellbilly
Deluxe was a powerful dirge of a disc nasty enough to raise
the dead from their graves but the constant drone of dirt
metal on Urge holds little new material and will even bore
the undead.
A
few ornaments decorate the rather plain corpse of an album.
"Never Gonna Stop" swaggers with pop verses and punishes with
the relentless verbal punches in the chorus "Never gonna stop
me/never gonna stop."Iron Head grooves with bass heavy tones
and non-linear lyrical delivery, a la "More Human than Human",
and features long time cadaver Ozzy Osbourne (brain dead at
the least). Though Ozzy may be a few bodies short of a graveyard
his voice is still as shrill and blood curdling breathing
some life into Iron Head. The rest of the disc is to a CD
collection as embalming fluid is to a carcass: filler.
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