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Astro-Creep: 2000 
Studio album by White Zombie Released April 11, 1995 Recorded 1994 at NRG Studios, Los Angeles, California Genre Alternative metal, heavy metal, industrial metal, groove metal, avant-garde metal Length 52:01 Label Geffen Producer Terry Date White Zombie chronology La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1
(1992)Astro Creep: 2000
(1995)Supersexy Swingin' Sounds
(1996)Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating Allmusic 
[1]Entertainment Weekly (B+) [2] Rolling Stone [3]Robert Christgau 
[4]Q [5]Astro-Creep: 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head (or simply Astro-Creep: 2000) is the fourth and final studio album by White Zombie, released on April 11, 1995 through Geffen Records. The album proved to be their most commercially successful recording, peaking at number six on the Billboard 200 with the aid of the popular hit singles "More Human than Human" and "Super-Charger Heaven".
Contents
Production
The album was highly anticipated due to the surprise success of the band's previous release La Sexorcisto. Ivan DePrume, the drummer on La Sexorcisto, had left the band to start Burningsound studios during their touring sessions for that album. The band later recruited former Exodus and Testament drummer John Tempesta for the recording of this album. Also they had hired Terry Date (Deftones, Pantera, Soundgarden) to produce Astro-Creep: 2000 for them. According to J., the album is 72 track recording, 48 analog and 24 digital.[6] The entire album took three months to write and another three to record. For the album, the band had a much bigger recording budget and more freedom in time.
Music and lyrics
The album is much heavier than La Sexorcisto, having much more of an industrial metal style rather than the groove metal of the previous album. It has been called "white-trash-on-acid metal". The band also down-tuned the guitars and bass to give it the darker sound that the songs required, going from standard E tuning to dropped C# (1.5 steps below standard E).
Much of the lyrics are also darker and more disturbing than on the previous album, and are arranged more like twisted poetry than La Sexorcisto's pseudo-rap scores, dealing with murder, the undead, blasphemy, satanic elements and other such topics.
Also, as with the previous two albums, many of the songs feature snippets of dialogue from horror and cult films – including The Omega Man, Shaft, The Haunting, The Curse of Frankenstein and To the Devil a Daughter.
Rob has said he favors this album to the previous one, stating, "I was never that happy with it [La Sexorcisto]. In some respects, it was probably the best thing we could do at the time under the circumstances; and that this record was exactly what he wanted it to sound like."[7]
Reception
The album is White Zombie's best-selling album, being certified Double Platinum by the RIAA and selling over 2,600,000 copies in America since its release. There was also a limited 50,000 pressings of this album on see-through blue vinyl. The album has been certified by CAN platinum. The album was nominated the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album and the band's biggest hit, "More Human than Human", nominated the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1996.
To promote the album, music videos for "More Human than Human", "Electric Head Pt. 2 (The Ecstasy)", and a live video for "Super-Charger Heaven" were released. In 1995, "More Human than Human" won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video and was considered by Rob to be his favorite White Zombie video.
There were also plans to start filming a video for "Blood, Milk and Sky" after Christmas as well as eventually filming a video for every song on the album.[8] However, these plans were scrapped when the band dissolved.
Accolades
Publication Country Accolade Year Rank Kerrang! United Kingdom "Albums of the Year"[9] 1995 2 Rocksound France "Albums of the Year"[10] 1995 20 OOR Netherlands "Albums of the Year"[11] 1995 23 RAW United Kingdom "90 essential albums for the 90s"[12] 1995 * Kerrang! United Kingdom "100 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die"[13] 1998 20 Pause & Play United States "The 90s Top 100 Essential Albums"[14] 1999 11 Visions Germany "The Most Important Albums of the 90s"[15] 2005 91 Classic Rock & Metal Hammer United Kingdom "The 200 Greatest Albums of the 90s"[16] 2006 * Track listing
All lyrics written by Rob Zombie.
No. Title Music Length 1. "Electric Head Pt. 1 (The Agony)" Yseult, Yuenger, Tempesta 4:54 2. "Super-Charger Heaven" Yseult, Yuenger, Tempesta 3:37 3. "Real Solution #9" Yseult, Yuenger, Tempesta 4:44 4. "Creature of the Wheel" Yseult, Yuenger 3:25 5. "Electric Head Pt. 2 (The Ecstasy)" Yseult, Yuenger, Tempesta 3:53 6. "Grease Paint and Monkey Brains" Yseult, Yuenger, Tempesta 3:49 7. "I, Zombie" Yseult, Yuenger, Tempesta 3:31 8. "More Human than Human" Yseult, Yuenger 4:28 9. "El Phantasmo and the Chicken-Run Blast-O-Rama" Yseult, Yuenger, Tempesta 4:13 10. "Blur the Technicolor" Yseult, Yuenger 4:09 11. "Blood, Milk and Sky" Yseult, Yuenger, Tempesta 11:21 12. "Where The Sidewalk Ends, The Bug Parade Begins (hidden track at 8:45 of track 11)" 2:41 Personnel
Band members
- John Tempesta – Drums
- J. – Guitar
- Sean Yseult – Bass, Art Direction
- Rob Zombie – Vocals, Art Direction, Illustrations
Technical crew
- Charlie Clouser – Programming, Keyboards
- Terry Date – Producer, Mixing
- Lamont Hyde – Recording and Mixing Assistant
- Ted Jensen – Mastering
- Wade Norton – Recording and Mixing Assistant
- Ulrich Wild – Recording
Chart positions
Album
Chart Peak Billboard 200 6 [17] New Zealand Chart 16 [18] Australian Album Chart 26 [19] Swedish Album Chart 30 [20] Swiss Album Chart 40 [21] French Album Chart 46 [22] Singles
Year Title Peak Chart positions US
MainUS
ModAUS [23] UK [24] 1995 "Electric Head Pt. 2 (The Ecstasy)" 27 — — 31 "More Human than Human" 10 7 11 51 1996 "Super-Charger Heaven" 39 — — — "—" denotes singles that were released but did not chart. References
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