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The Sinister Urge is one of three Rob Zombie albums to reach Platinum status, along with Hellbilly Deluxe and the 2003 compilation album Past, Present & Future. It is the final album to include guitarist Mike Riggs and drummer John Tempesta, who had been part of the Rob Zombie band line-up since 1998. Background & development.
- A Straight-Up Party Metal Record
- “Scream If You Want It, ’Cause I Want It More”
- Unlike Anything Anybody Has Produced Anywhere
What about those spiraling, ghost train strings that open the ride with a color and a flavor unlike anything else he had put his name to? It’s life, Bobby, but not as we know it. It was fast, hard, and fun. Reallyfun. Then there’s awesome “Hey-hey-HEY-HEY” intro to the monster man’s arrival on this record – and, yup, we are salivating all over agai...
It’s not all club-ready bumping’n’grinding. “Go To California” is a mystic desert ride through temptations and sin, conjuring a Fear And Loathing-meets-The Grim Reaper sultry slink that’s still about putting some crunk in that monster trunk. Its hushed vocal and refusal to get too overblown marks a mature approach to a second album. But let’s talk ...
The final act of the album is equally fascinating. “Scum Of The Earth” is a real fan-favorite: a full-throttle, head-down ripper, full of impeccably-placed calls-and-response in the chorus. But The Sinister Urge is all about the ending: Rob’s love letter to his breakthrough movie, House Of 1000 Corpses. It’s weird. Really weird. It’s almost ten min...
- Terry Beezer
Nov 19, 2001 · ‘The Sinister Urge’ will, as always with Mr. Zombie, fair infinitely better in the live environment. And admittedly, it’s nice to hear some metal with a bit of stomp to it with absolutely no rapping of any sort within a million mile radius, but we should expect something more from Rob and his band of (un)merry men.
Mar 13, 2016 · The Sinister Urge features the same horror movie based lyrics that Zombie has managed to make a career using, except this time the music is not as heavy as his self- titled or the white zombie albums.
Nov 16, 2021 · The 11-song Sinister Urge is packed with the same corpse-grinding, coffin-crunching shock ’n’ shlock rock that dread-head Zombie has been peddling to good effect since his days in White Zombie.
Nov 1, 2018 · ROB ZOMBIE — The Sinister Urge (review) Album · 2001 · Industrial Metal. 2/5 · 2018-11-01. Warthur Oh, sure, a different album in Rob Zombie's discography happens to bear the name "Hellbilly Deluxe 2" - but set that aside, this is basically Hellbilly Deluxe 2: Industrial Rock Boogaloo.
Nov 13, 2023 · Zombie named The Sinister Urge after a 1960 crime thriller directed by E.D. Wood and it featured just enough psychedelic flourishes to keep the abundance of biker riffs and shout-along...
