La Sexorcisto-Devil Music Vol. 1 [EXPLICIT LYRICS]

White Zombie

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 17, 1992)
• Original Release Date: March 31, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Label: Geffen Records
• ASIN: B000000OSQ
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (91 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,336 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
The title of White Zombie's first mainstream success promises some good, trashy fun, and boy does this album deliver. White Zombie is not a nihilistic, the-world-is-rotten heavy metal band; on the contrary, one doubts that they're in danger of taking anything too seriously, and the humor is audible in every riff. La Sexorcisto is rife with distorted guitars, snippets of dialogue from horror movies, and songs about fast cars ("Black Sunshine"), loose women ("Grindhouse (A-Go-Go)"), and the generally weird. Don't think about it too hard; sit back, relax, pop a cool one and crank up the stereo until it shakes your ceiling. -- Genevieve Williams

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I Got the Left Hand of A Keeper, March 21, 2003

By	TastyBabySyndrome "T(to the)B(to the)S" ("Daddy Dagon's Daycare" - Proud Sponsor of the Little Tendril Baseball Team, USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

When the band first made its appearance with "Make Them Die Slowly," they found themselves largely ignored by the listeners in the mainstream. There was good reason for this, too, because the album, while refined in portions that were scattered throughout the album, was something that was rough and unrefined, showcasing many and many a shortcoming. This didn't set the band back that much, though, because they decided to take these setbacks in stride and forge ahead and create something a bit more refined, incorporating the love of monster movies and harsh vocals with samples that found themselves quite at home.

Within La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1, there are many things that didn't seem remarkably groundbreaking at the time but that did manage to do something that few bands had done before White Zombie. They managed to take this type of music and shove it into the listening ears of an audience that seemed to be craving more. Powered by the vocal stylings that many find almost impossible to understand and heavy tempos that seem to ebb with power, song after song drives its way onward, compressing harmony with the mentality that heavy is good. Perhaps best known for the song "Thunder Kiss '65," the album propelled its way forward with single after single being released, also gaining some notation with the 400 horsepower adrenaline surge called "Black Sunshine." Still, the album was far from completed by these pieces. From the onset of the greeting card "Welcome to Planet MF/Psycholic Slag" welcomed you to "planet pretty kill" to the wonderful depiction of "I Am Legend" and its world overrun by swarms of the vampiric, the album worked to spotlight obscurity in movie and ideas that many people hadn't been exposed to. Sampling the likes of "Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, a little "I am Electro," and "Night of the Living Dead," not to mention inviting Iggy Pop on board for Black Sunshine, it is something that, to this day, I still find myself enjoying.

For someone looking to drown their listening ears in something pleasurable but that isn't to be taken too terribly serious, then this would be something to look into. That is, it would be if you don't mind a bit of profanity, some heavier sounds in your musical experience, and beats that might find themselves hanging in your mind. Be warned, it might make you want to go out and read "I Am Legend," too.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic album, not for children., October 28, 2004

By	Johnny Fuzz - See all my reviews

Lemme guess? You went ahead and bought Rob Zombie's "Hellbilly Deluxe" before splurging on "The Sinister Urge" a few years later, right? And I bet when a friend handed you Astrocreep 2000 and claimed that you weren't a hardcore Zombie fan until you heard it, you probably had to change your shorts.

Of course, that means you probably have no idea what this album is.

Just look at it.

It's NOT Rob Zombie and it's NOT Astrocreep 2000. La Sexorcisto is the begining of the marriage of old, thrashy, unpleasant (but still classic) "Make Them Die Slowly" with the off-beat, pop-shock that would go on to make Zombie the ringleader of his own twisted circus of a solo career.

This is an album full of epic, desert-redneck road rock and it lopes and guns like metal should. Rob Zombie's digital meddling is nowhere to be heard on this album, and to be honest, you probably won't like it all that much.

This isnt' Dragula and it doesn't even pretend to be. This is big-time rock in a form that's almost too pure for a record with production this clean and riffs this crazy. I give it a five because I love it.

You might not.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic zombie, April 20, 2003

By	N. Durham "Big Evil" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

The album that introduced mainstream America to one of metal's most beloved bands, White Zombie's "La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1" is a tour de force of heandbanging ghoul rock. Songs like "Thunderkiss '65", "Black Sunshine", "Soul Crusher", "Thrust!", and "Grindhouse (A Go Go)" fully display the growl and campy lyrics of Rob Zombie, the grinding guitars of J., and the pumping bass and drums of Sean Yseult and Ivan Deprume respectively. I still remember thinking how mind boggingly cool White Zombie was when I had first heard them when I was a kid, and as much as I loved their follow up (and what proved to be their last studio album) "Astro Creep 2000", "La Sexorcisto" remains my favorite album from this much missed band. Forget most of Rob's newer material, this is the real deal.