La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One

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La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 is a 1992 album by metal band White Zombie.

Album information

The album's sound is a mix of Groove metal and Funk metal with lots of B-movie samples. Rob Zombie explained he "wanted to keep a groovable dance element in the music", a trait which is often absent in Metal music.

Contrary to rumors, a "Devil Music, Vol. 2" 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.

Reception

The album 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." 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' Appetite for Destruction, The Cult's Electric, and Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger in significance". It has been certified Double Platinum by the RIAA.

Historian Piero Scaruffi gave it a 7 out of 10 and placed it at #30 of his greatest metal albums of all time list.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Rob Zombie. All music by White Zombie.

1. "Welcome to Planet Motherfucker/Psychoholic Slag" – 6:21
2. "Knuckle Duster (Radio 1-A)" – 0:21
3. "Thunder Kiss '65" – 3:53
4. "Black Sunshine" – 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

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

Song Information

Knuckle Duster (Radio 1-A)

"Knuckle Duster (Radio 1-A)" is the second track and the first of two radio channel imitations on the album. It takes its name from a metal weapon worn over the knuckles used in hand-to-hand combat, otherwise known as brass knuckles. The track contains numerous short audio samples from movies and songs which play in a fashion similar to that of someone changing radio channels every few seconds.

Audio Samples

• 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 is from the 1978 horror film Halloween when Laurie Strode is being attacked by Michael Myers in a closet.

Soul-Crusher

"Soul-Crusher" is the fifth track on the album. The song's opening guitar riffs make it a stand out of the album. The lyrics "Speed kills, I'm alive yeah, in my ... Durango '95, yeah!" and "Motherfucker scream horrorshow!" are both references to Stanley Kubrick's classic 1971 film A Clockwork Orange. Also, the lyrics "Time a Diamond Ass right on my line" is a reference to their song "Diamond Ass" off the Soul-Crusher album. Iggy Pop speaks the words "Burning like fat in the fire the smell of red, red kroovy(krovvy) screamed mega-flow; A stalking ground without prey. A flash of superstition whimpering like a crippled animal. Dogs of the Soul-Crusher pulling closer like the blue steel jaws of hell" in the middle of the song.

Cosmic Monsters Inc.

"Cosmic Monsters Inc." is the sixth track on the album. The song starts with a clip from the original Batman television series: "Meanwhile, behind the façade of this innocent-looking bookstore." The voice is that of William Dozier from the classic episode featuring Anne Baxter as Zelda the Great.

Spiderbaby (Yeah-Yeah-Yeah)

"Spiderbaby (Yeah-Yeah-Yeah)" is the seventh track on the album. It takes its name from the 1964 cult film Spiderbaby. The "bell sounds" heard at the beginning of the song are taken from the Clive Barker's classic 1987 horror film Hellraiser. Also, the music score from the 1973 movie The Exorcist can be heard in the background during the guitar solo section of the song.

I Am Legend

"I Am Legend" is the eighth track on the album. The song is closely based on the 1954 horror novel I Am Legend written by Richard Matheson. The track particularly stands out because of its melodic guitar solo at the beginning of the song, a sound uncommon for the band.

In 2000, the song was covered by Anarchuz for the White Zombie tribute album Super-Charger Hell alternatively titled as "I'm a Legend." The song featured in the second half of the trailer for the 2007 movie I Am Legend.

Knuckle Duster (Radio 2-B)

"Knuckle Duster (Radio 2-B)" is the ninth track and the second of two radio channel imitations on the album. It takes its name from a metal weapon worn over the knuckles used in hand-to-hand combat, otherwise known as brass knuckles. It contains numerous short audio samples from movies and songs which play in a fashion similar to that of someone changing radio channels every few seconds.

Audio Samples

• 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).

• 0:14 - "... 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 ..."

Starface

"Starface" is the thirteenth track on the album. The audio sample at the beginning of the track, "One. We are one. One is the beginning ...", is from the episode The Way To Eden from Star Trek: The Original Series.

Personnel

• Kristin Callahan - Photography
• David Carpenter - Assistant Engineer
• Ivan de Prume - Drums
• Alison Dyer - Photography
• Michael Golob - Art Direction, Photoshop Artist
• Iggy Pop - Additional Vocals (Black Sunshine)
• Andy Wallace - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
• Howie Weinberg - Mastering
• Sean Yseult - Bass, Art Direction
• J. - Guitar
• Rob Zombie - Vocals, Lyricist, Art Direction, Illustrations, Sleeve Illustration

Chart positions

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1993	Heatseekers	2
1993	The Billboard 200	26

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1993	"Thunder Kiss '65"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	14
1993	"Black Sunshine"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	39