Rob Zombie Albums Ranked

Rob Zombie (born Robert Bartleh Cummings; January 12, 1965) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, programmer, voice actor, and filmmaker. He is a founding member of the heavy metal band White Zombie, releasing four studio albums with the band. He is the older brother of Spider One, the lead vocalist of the industrial metal band Powerman 5000.
Zombie’s first solo effort was a 1996 song titled “Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn)”, written and performed with Alice Cooper. It went on to receive a nomination for Best Metal Performance at the 39th Annual Grammy Awards. In 1997, he began working on his debut solo studio album, Hellbilly Deluxe, which was released in August 1998. A month later, Zombie officially disbanded White Zombie. Hellbilly Deluxe went on to sell over three million copies worldwide and spawned three singles. Zombie directed the horror film House of 1000 Corpses in 2000, though the controversial project was not released until 2003. His second studio album, The Sinister Urge (2001), became his second platinum album in the U.S.
Since the beginning of his music career, Zombie’s music and lyrics have featured notable horror and sci-fi themes. His live shows have been praised for their elaborate shock rock theatricality. Since beginning his solo career, Zombie has sold an estimated fifteen million albums worldwide. Here are all of Rob Zombie’s albums ranked.

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6. Educated Horses (2006)

“First Listen yesterday, and I enjoyed the work. This is still Rob Zombie, but its different… it’s called varying and experimentation people. I think that some people have a clone expectation of some artists. But the sales numbers have shown that a huge number of people like this work. Radio got behind this work because the Rob Zombie fan club helped push a great product. If you listen to what Rob Zombie has said in his so-called film hiatus from music, the way he creates is both visual as well as audio. I think this disc is perfectly in tune with his other work, its a different “Vision” maybe, and whilst items like HELLBILLY DELUXE are items I would play more often, if Rob only has 38 Minutes of music for this disc, then so be it, I certainly don’t want him to redo the disc and come up with a new disc like AMERICAN MADE MUSIC TO STRIP BY, which is a remix of another album… even though I do like AMERICAN MADE MUSIC TO STRIP BY.’

5. Hellbilly Deluxe 2: Noble Jackals, Penny Dreadfuls and the Systematic Dehumanization of Cool (2010)

“Musically this has pretty much nothing to do with the masterpiece called Hellbilly Deluxe. On the other hand it is not as bad as Educated Horses was. It falls somewhere between The Sinister Urge (which was decent) and Educated Horses. Once again there is more rock than metal on this album, just like on Educated Horses. This isn’t a bad thing, but I think Zombie handles metal better.”

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4. The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration (2016)

“I have been a fan of him since I was a little boy. For this new album at least, I kept my expectations cautiously low as I usually do for anything else, but I never intend being negative and pessimistic; I challenge myself to keep an open mind about anything Rob does for new material (same goes for anyone else) and continue supporting his work as the fans ought to. Overall, the album is not much spooky or creepy like certain ones from the past (Hellbilly Deluxe for example) and people try too hard holding onto the past, which is not always bad (even I know and experienced the feeling too), but there just comes a time to let go while focusing on what could go right and know what to improve.”

3. Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor (2013)

“Although he has had some decent releases in his solo career. This disc comes closer to White Zombie than any other of his solo projects. It is a bit faster than WZ, it lacks the serious groove of WZ. Yet it uses the horror sound bytes and the surreal lyrics more akin to WZ. I found it to be more to my liking because of this. It rocks for sure, has energy for days and a campy feel that has been disappearing from his recordings. I for one say welcome back to form!”

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2. The Sinister Urge (2001)

“Rob Zombie’s sophomore solo album isn’t quite as popular as his debut, Hellbilly Deluxe but personally I think it’s just as good. It isn’t as heavy but the songs are catchier, more enjoyable and memorable. Sinister Urge focuses more on industrial and electronic influences than metal. There are still several harder rock tracks but a few are more experimental and different like Transylvanian Transmissions Pt. 2. Never Gonna Stop and Feel So Numb are great songs but my personal favorite is (Go To) California.”

1. Hellbilly Deluxe (1998)

“I really got into White Zombie and Rob Zombie when I was in middle school, and out of everything, I still say that Hellbilly Deluxe is at the top of the list. The album feels like a very natural precursor to Sinister Urge after having heard both albums. I would link the two together as a part one and part two before I would place any other Zombie albums together, and that includes Hellbilly Deluxe II. This is classic Zombie.”