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Since the hallowed day that I discovered that I was a metal head, I have always been a fan of  White/Rob Zombie. Everything about him just made me want to hang out with the dude; from his love of all things horror, to his skills as a graphic artist, and his versatility in music. More recently I have enjoyed watching his gradual move to film-making though critically he’s had his ups and downs (personally I thought Halloween 2 was pretty good even though most thought it was crap).

Over the past few years unfortunately it seems that more work has been put into his films than into music. With a series of lackluster albums that really had nothing new to say or to listen to. Don’t get me wrong there was at least one stand out song on both The Sinister Urge (Feel So Numb), and Educated Horses (The Devils Rejects), but it seemed like Zombie was caught in a loop of recreating the same album over and over again.

Hellbilly Deluxe 2 is stripped down of the electronic sound that became too commonplace in the few last albums and seems to accomplish what he wanted to do with Horses a little bit more successfully. The addition of a more southern rock inspired twang is prevalent from the start of the album with the opening track Jesus Frankenstein. It then launches into the raw driving beat that characterized songs like Thunder kiss  65 in the White Zombie Days. Overall a good song to open the album with.

Following in track 2 and 3 we have Sick Bublegum and What?, two songs which in my opinion are basically filler, but are ironically the first two singles from the album. Back to the same riffs and beats from the two previous albums, with of course the lyrics closely tied to horror classics and serial killers. It’s not that I dislike them, its just they don’t strike me as particularly original or even catchy.

And then there is track 4, Mars Needs Women.

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