These came out in 1999 – or at least that’s when I got ’em. Here’s what I said about them back then (with some minor editing):
The titles are suspiciously similar, and they’re both remix albums. But trust me, that’s all there is in common between new discs from Hollywood shock / shlock rocker Rob Zombie and Chicago sleaze merchants My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult.
As for the former, well, who better to subject his music to the Frankenstein surgery of remixing than a rocker named after a reaminated corpse? Here, NIN’s Charlie Clouser, Praga Khan, God Lives Underwater, Rammstein, Limp Bizkit’s DJ Lethal and a host of others play doctor with the tracks from Zombie’s Hellbilly Deluxe, cutting and pasting his horror-flick scarefests into monster-mash mixes for all the ghouls and boils. Few breathe any new life into the beasts, but hey, whaddaya expect from a second-generation Zombie? Meanwhile, the dance industrialists of My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, as always, have created the perfect soundtrack for B-movies of another sort — the ’60s trash-o-rama flicks of Herschell Gordon Lewis and Russ Meyer. Hell, with titles like Hard, Fast & Beautiful, Sexplosion! and Hungry Venus, they’re halfway there. The tittilating decadence, fetishistic sensuality and kitten-with-a-whip vocals on these 18 industial-tinged disco tracks take it the rest of the way. They could even make a Zombie rise, if you know what I mean.
