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Rob Zombie | The Sinister Urge

Pure exploitation lacks shock-factor.
CD, Geffen/Universal

Tekst: Martÿn ter Haar

Publicatiedatum: 28 januari 2002

'The Sinister Urge' is pure exploitation. Clearly made to sell as many units as possible the album is filled with ultra-simple, hard grooving dance rock. Samples from B-films, hints of sex and satanism, but not so much as to lose contact with the mainstream and famous guest musicians like Ozzy Osbourne, Mix Master Mike, Kerry King and Tommy Lee complete this attempt to fill mr. Zombie's bank account. And it works for a while. Tracks like 'Dead Girl Superstar' and 'Feel So Numb' are the sound of Rammstein shaking their Prussian booty (on the dance floor that is), with an ultra-fat sound just made to play at maximum volume. The problem is that all tracks are like those two, only not as good. Listening to 'The Sinister Urge' is like watching 11 cult-slasher flicks in a row: fun at first, but after a while you are dying for Anthony Hopkins in a Merchant/Ivory production or maybe some Woody Allen. Even albums by notorious one trick ponies such as AC/DC or Motörhead are more varied than the musical fastfood Rob Zombie is serving here. Besides variation the other thing missing is just that bit of controversy that would give the album some underground credibility. But maybe Zombie has had enough controversy as he got into trouble with Universal over his film 'House Of 1000 Corpses' (A track with the same name is on the album. The samples in it make it seem like the film was heavily inspired by 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre') which they would not release because it was too dark to be commercially succesful. Zombie showed some fragments as backdrops during in his concerts. One concertgoer had this to say about it: "Axes, people in odd masks, a girl in a bunny costume getting murdered, and tits tits tits!" The sonic equivalents are somewhat missing here.

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