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La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One is the third studio album by American heavy metal band White Zombie, released on March 17, 1992 through Geffen Records. The album marked a major artistic and commercial turning point for the band. After the recruitment of guitarist Jay Noel Yuenger, White Zombie was able to successfully embrace the heavy metal sound they had pursued since Make Them Die Slowly (1989), while incorporating more groove-based elements into their sound. The album was the band's last to feature drummer Ivan de Prume.

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La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One
Studio album by
White Zombie
ReleasedMarch 17, 1992 (1992-03-17)
RecordedMay 1991
Studio321 Studios, New York City
Genre
  • Groove metal
  • heavy metal[1]
Length57:30
LabelGeffen
ProducerAndy Wallace
White Zombie chronology
God of Thunder
(1989)		 La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One
(1992)		 Astro-Creep: 2000
(1995)
Singles from La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One
  1. "Thunder Kiss '65"
    Released: 1992
  2. "Black Sunshine"
    Released: 1992
Audio
"Album" playlist on YouTube

The album was a critical and commercial success for White Zombie after the artistic failure of Make Them Die Slowly. La Sexorcisto became the band's first album to chart on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 26 in 1993. The singles "Thunder Kiss '65" and "Black Sunshine" received heavy rotation on rock radio and MTV, the former earning the band their first Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance. The album has been certified two times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in the United States.


Album information


The album's sound is a mix of groove metal and heavy metal with multiple B-movie samples. Rob Zombie explained he "wanted to keep a groovable dance element in the music", a trait that is often absent in metal music. Contrary to rumors, a "Devil Music Volume Two" was never planned for recording or release. Almost every song on the album made an appearance on the 1994 video game Way of the Warrior.


Touring and promotion


White Zombie toured for two years to promote La Sexorcisto. The tour was a critical success and some archived footage of the shows can be seen on the Let Sleeping Corpses Lie DVD. White Zombie began a five-month U.S. tour in April 1992, supporting such bands as My Sister's Machine, Paw, Testament, Pantera, Trouble and Crowbar.[2] In the fall of 1992, the band opened for Danzig on their How the Gods Kill tour in Europe and the United States, and wrapped up the year doing a brief U.S. tour, again supporting Pantera.[2] White Zombie spent most of 1993 and 1994 touring non-stop in support of La Sexorcisto. They toured with Monster Magnet in February and March 1993 and with Anthrax and Quicksand that summer.[2] White Zombie embarked on two more U.S. tours: one with Chemlab and Nudeswirl in the fall of 1993, and another with Prong and The Obsessed in early 1994.[2] The La Sexorcisto tour concluded in May 1994 with four Japanese shows, which were supported by Pantera.[2]


Release and reception


Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Rolling Stone[3]
Rock Hard9/10[4]

La Sexorcisto was both a critical and commercial success for White Zombie, climbing up the charts in the US and gaining massive MTV video airplay and mainstream rock radio airplay with "Thunder Kiss '65" and "Black Sunshine". Although released in early 1992, La Sexorcisto did not enter the Billboard 200 until 1993,[5] after the success of "Thunder Kiss '65", which reached number 26 on the Mainstream Rock chart.[6] It was certified Double Platinum by the RIAA, and gold by the CRIA.

Jacob N. Lunders of AllMusic praised the album with 4.5 out of 5 stars and claimed "Perhaps co-defining the future of heavy metal, White Zombie's major-label debut nearly equals fellow classics Guns N' Roses's Appetite for Destruction, The Cult's Electric, and Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger in significance".[1] In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked La Sexorcisto as 93rd on their list of 'The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time'.[7]

Adam McCann of Metal Digest praised La Sexorcisto as both a "seminal" and a "massive 90's album", and wrote, "This was the album which saw White Zombie take their sound to the next level by inserting a rocket into their rectum. Tracks such as 'Thunder Kiss '65' and 'Black Sunshine' saw the band prominently feature on MTV and before too long, White Zombie posters began to adorn thousands of teenage bedrooms."[8]


Accolades


Year Publication Country Accolade Rank
1996VisionsGermany "The Eternal Readers Charts"36[9]
2006Rock SoundUnited Kingdom "Les 150 Albums De La Génération"95[10]
2005Rock HardGermany "The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time"282[11]
2017Rolling StoneUnited States "The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time"93[12]

Track listing


All lyrics are written by Rob Zombie; all music is composed by White Zombie.

No.TitleLength
1."Welcome to Planet Motherfucker/Psychoholic Slag"6:21
2."Knuckle Duster (Radio 1-A)"0:21
3."Thunder Kiss '65"3:54
4."Black Sunshine" (featuring Iggy Pop)4:49
5."Soul-Crusher"5:07
6."Cosmic Monsters Inc."5:13
7."Spiderbaby (Yeah-Yeah-Yeah)"5:01
8."I Am Legend"5:08
9."Knuckle Duster (Radio 2-B)"0:25
10."Thrust!"5:04
11."One Big Crunch"0:21
12."Grindhouse (A Go-Go)"4:05
13."Starface"5:02
14."Warp Asylum"6:44
Total length:57:30

Some pressings of the CD incorrectly divide tracks 12 and 13, beginning track 13 at 3:31 of "Grindhouse (A Go-Go)".


Sample overview


# Title Samples[13]
1 "Welcome to Planet Motherfucker/Psychoholic Slag"
  • 0:25 – The explosion and sounds of growling is taken from the 1989 anime Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend.
  • 1:31 – "Fuckin' kiss me." is Tori Welles, sampled from the first scene of "True Confessions of Tori Welles" (with Tori Welles and Jerry Butler).
  • 1:48 – "Now let's move", "but let's take the back door" and the sample right at the end of the song are from the 1965 exploitation film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!.
  • 2:40 – "Oh, wow!"/"Cool it." and "You wanna start a rumble?" is taken from the 1958 crime drama film High School Confidential.
  • 4:14 – "Do you have to open graves to find girls to fall in love with?" is taken from the 1932 horror film The Mummy.
  • 4:35 – "Get up and kill!" is taken from the 1978 zombie film Dawn of the Dead.
  • 5:43 – "Hula fast shorts, swing with a gassy chick. Turn on to a thousand joys, smile on what happened. Then check what's gonna happen, you'll miss what's happening. Turn your eyes inside and dig the vacuum. Tomorrow, drag" is Phillipa Fallon performing beat poetry in the 1958 teen film High School Confidential.
2 "Knuckle Duster (Radio 1-A)"
  • 0:02 – "Ahorre, no compre sin visitar Empori..." is taken from a radio ad in Spanish. Translates to "Save, don't buy without visiting Empori..."
  • 0:07 – "We know how fast we can go" is taken from the 1965 cult film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
  • 0:17 – "These are the facts as we know them. There is an epidemic of mass murders being committed by a virtual army of unidentified assassins" is taken from the 1968 horror film Night of the Living Dead during a radio broadcast.
  • 0:17 – The screaming in the background (sans falling lumber) is from the first scene of "True Confessions of Tori Welles" (with Tori Welles and Jerry Butler), approximately 10 minutes in.
3 "Thunder Kiss '65"
  • 1:28 – "You're all shook up, aren't you baby? I never try anything. I just do it. Wanna try me?" is taken from the 1965 exploitation film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
4 "Black Sunshine"
  • 3:25 – "I work on this baby the same way, trying to get maximum performance" is taken from the 1965 exploitation film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
5 "Soul-Crusher"
6 "Cosmic Monsters Inc."
  • 0:00 – "Meanwhile, behind the façade of this innocent-looking bookstore" is taken from the "Zelda The Great" episode of 1966 Batman television series.
  • 1:26 – "You're all shook up, aren't you baby?" is taken from the 1965 exploitation film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
  • 3:20 – "They come from the bowels of hell..." is taken from the trailer for the 1959 science fiction film Plan 9 from Outer Space
  • 4:16 – "The only thing square about this world are the cats what live in it!" is taken from the 1958 crime drama film High School Confidential
7 "Spiderbaby (Yeah-Yeah-Yeah)"
  • 0:00 – The bell sounds at the beginning of the song are from the 1988 horror film Hellbound: Hellraiser II
  • 2:23 – The ominous chanting that listeners hear is in fact the score from the 1976 horror film The Omen
  • 4:00 – The Arabic chanting is taken from The Exorcist
8 "I Am Legend" --
9 "Knuckle Duster (Radio 2-B)"
  • 0:00 – "Now, what we have to ask is why is it that God has admonished us to hate evil? Well, first of all, God loves ..." from a sermon by Atlanta pastor, Dr. Charles Stanley (pastor).
  • 0:09 – "Y cuando tu vuelvas.." Daniel Santos – "Como se van las noches"
  • 0:14 – "... And strangled them and finally dismembered their bodies"
  • 0:20 – "homelessness and all that ..." sample are the words of the American radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh.
  • 0:21 – "And now, the voice you've been waiting for ..."
10 "Thrust!"
  • 0:00 – The speaking at the introduction of this song is taken from the 1989 manga Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend
  • 1:50 – "It has been established..." sample is taken from the 1968 zombie film Night of the Living Dead
11 "One Big Crunch"
  • 0:00 – The music in the background is from the 1968 horror film, Night of the Living Dead.
  • 0:01 – "Only parts of the corpse had been removed" is from the 1974 horror film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
  • 0:10 – "He steps to the water and plunges in, making far more impression on his skull than on the lady" is from a 1950s teen instructional swimming film.
12 "Grindhouse (A Go-Go)" --
13 "Starface"
  • 0:00 – "One. One is the beginning..." and "Oh Herbert, you are stiff!" samples from the beginning and end of the song are taken from the 1969 episode of Star Trek: The Original Series entitled "The Way to Eden"
  • 0:18 – "X minus 5 seconds..." sample is taken from the 1950 science fiction film Rocketship X-M
  • 2:27 – In the background there is an eerie jingle playing, this is from 1979's Phantasm. This sound effect was used earlier as the shuttlecraft interior sound effects throughout the run of the aforementioned Star Trek: The Original Series. (On the album "Star Trek: Sound Effects from the Original TV Soundtrack", it is Track 69—do a search for "shuttlecraft interior" on YouTube for confirmation.)
14 "Warp Asylum"
  • 6:13 – ""Thank you so very much! God bless you all. Have a ball, and goodnight." Near the end part of "Let's Do It," a track on "Jayne Mansfield Busts Up Las Vegas"
  • 6:23 – "A few of these sentences have already begun to take root in your subconscious mind, haven't they? If you play the record a few more times, you'll be amazed at how easily you have begun to understand." (source unknown)

Personnel


Adapted from the La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One liner notes.[14]


Chart positions



Certifications


Region CertificationCertified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[18] 2× Platinum 2,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.


Release history


Region Date Label Format Catalog
United States 1992 Geffen CD, CS, LP GEF 24460
Europe 2012 Music on Vinyl LP MOVLP534

References


  1. Lunders, Jacob N. "White Zombie: La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  2. "White Zombie Tour Dates". metallipromo.com. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
  3. Brackett, Nathan. "White Zombie". November 2004. pg. 870, cited March 17, 2010.
  4. Deese, Uwe. "Rock Hard review". issue 60. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  5. "La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 - White Zombie : Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
  6. "White Zombie - Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
  7. "Rolling Stone Share Their Choices for 'The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time'". 21 June 2017.
  8. "White Zombie – 'La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One' – Metal Digest – The Normless Magazine". metal-digest.com. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
  9. "Visions - The Eternal Readers Charts". Visions. Archived from the original on 2008-12-27. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
  10. "Rock Sound - Les 150 Albums De La Génération". Rock Sound. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
  11. Best of Rock & Metal - Die 500 stärksten Scheiben aller Zeiten (in German). Rock Hard. 2005. p. 99. ISBN 3-89880-517-4.
  12. "The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. 21 June 2017.
  13. "White Zombie's Sample-Based Music". WhoSampled. Retrieved 2015-09-29.
  14. La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One (booklet). White Zombie. Los Angeles, California: Geffen Records. 1992.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  15. "White Zombie – Billboard Albums". Allmusic. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
  16. "White Zombie – Billboard Singles". Allmusic. Retrieved 2007-12-08.
  17. White Zombie in New Zealand Charts. Charts.Org.NZ. Retrieved on June 3, 2009.
  18. "American album certifications – White Zombie – La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. I". Recording Industry Association of America.



На других языках

- [en] La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One

[es] La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1

La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1, es el tercer disco de la banda heavy metal/groove metal estadounidense White Zombie.[1]

[ru] La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1

La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One — третий студийный альбом американской метал-группы White Zombie, выпущенный 17 марта 1992 года на лейбле Geffen Records[1][2].


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