White Zombie - Make Them Die Slowly (1989)

Previously on OPIUM HUM:
White Zombie - Gods on Voodoo Moon (1985) Pig Heaven (1986) Psycho Head Blowout (1986) + God of Thunder (1989)

White Zombie's second full-length, the Bill Laswell-produced Make Them Die Slowly was, as they say, a transitional record. It splits the difference between Soul-Crusher's noise-sludge trash-art and La Sexorcisto's psychedelic groove metal, landing in territory that didn't really make anyone happy -- including White Zombie, who were dissatisfied with it before it even came out. Except for a 13-year-old me, of course, who bought the cassette under the false assumption that it contained the song I'd heard on the radio, then nonetheless listened to it on repeat all summer.

Track listing:
1. Demon Speed
2. Disaster Blaster
3. Murderworld
4. Revenge
5. Acid Flesh
6. Power Hungry
7. Godslayer

Doomsday for all the beautiful people

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White Zombie - Gods on Voodoo Moon (1985) Pig Heaven (1986) Psycho Head Blowout (1986) + God of Thunder (1989)

Before they turned into a groove metal band with dance beats, White Zombie made sloppy, punk-y noise rock. The first three EPs/singles consist entirely of dissonant, repetitive songs with Rob Zombie moaning and screaming like Kim Gordon. It sounds literally nothing like their later stuff. Depending on how you feel about bands like No Trend and (early) Butthole Surfers, you'll either dig it or you'll find it incredibly irritating. The fourth, God of Thunder, sounds a lot like La Sexorcisto.

Track listing:
-Gods on Voodoo Moon-
1. Gentleman Junkie
2. King of Souls
3. Tales from the Scarecrow Man
4. Cat's Eye Resurrection
5. Black Friday
6. Dead or Alive
-Pig Heaven-
1. Pig Heaven
2. Slaughter the Grey
-Psycho-Head Blowout-
1. Eighty-Eight
2. Fast Jungle
3. Gun Crazy
4. Kick
5. Memphis
6. Magdalene
7. True Crime
-God of Thunder-
1. God of Thunder
2. Love Razor
3. Disaster Blaster II

a floating frenzy covered in weeds he's a house of power send that boy to heaven---tie them all down in the field they wander and decay a mass of flesh go fade away invisible rhythms they rip across a pale face engines start a cranking black sheep race