Astro-Creep: 2000

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Astro-Creep: 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head, known more commonly as Astro-Creep 2000 is the fourth and final studio album by American heavy metal band White Zombie, released on April 11, 1995, by Geffen Records. The album proved to be their most commercially successful recording, peaking at number six on the Billboard 200 with the aid of the popular hit singles "More Human than Human" and "Super-Charger Heaven". It was the band's only studio album to feature John Tempesta on drums.

Production

The album was highly anticipated due to the surprise success of the band's previous release La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One. Ivan DePrume, the band's long-time drummer, had left the band to start Burningsound studios during their touring sessions for that album. The band later recruited former Exodus and Testament drummer John Tempesta for the recording of this album. The album had help from significant industrial musicians, such as the keyboard work from Charlie Clouser, who had worked with artists like Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein, Marilyn Manson, Killing Joke, and more. They had also hired Terry Date (Deftones, Pantera, Soundgarden) to produce Astro-Creep: 2000 for them. According to J., the album comprises seventy-two track recordings, forty-eight of which are analog and twenty-four being digital recordings.<ref>Veneris, Andreas. "Interview: White Zombie/J". VIBE. December 8, 1995, at Rosemont Horizon, Chicago. cited October 31, 2008</ref> For the album, the band had a much bigger recording budget and more freedom in time.

The entire album took three months to write and another three to record. Writing for the album began in June 1994, shortly after White Zombie finished touring Japan.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite journal</ref> Recording was scheduled to commence in September 1994,<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> and the album was finished by Christmas 1994.<ref name=":0" />

Music and lyrics

The album is much heavier than La Sexorcisto and has been called "white-trash-on-acid metal" by Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic.<ref name="allmusic" /> The band also down-tuned the guitars and bass to give it the darker sound that the songs required, going from standard E tuning to dropped C# (1.5 steps below standard E).Template:Citation needed

Much of the lyrics are also darker and more disturbing than on the previous album, and are arranged more like twisted poetry than La Sexorcisto's pseudo-rap scores, dealing with murder, the undead, blasphemy, and satanic elements.Template:Citation needed

As with the previous two albums, many of the songs feature snippets of dialogue from horror and cult films including The Omega Man, Shaft, The Haunting, The Curse of Frankenstein and To the Devil a Daughter. The titular refrain of "More Human Than Human" is taken from the 1982 film Blade Runner.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Rob has said he favors this album to the previous one, stating, "I was never that happy with it [La Sexorcisto]. In some respects, it was probably the best thing we could do at the time under the circumstances; and that this record was exactly what we wanted it to sound like."<ref>Engleheart, Murray. "White Zombie Monster Cars & Monster Music". Rip. October, 1995. cited October 30, 2008</ref>

Reception

Astro-Creep: 2000 received generally positive reviews from critics, it is White Zombie's best-selling album, being certified double Platinum by the RIAA and selling over 2,600,000 copies in America since its release. There was also a limited 50,000 pressings of this album on see-through blue vinyl. The album has been certified by CAN platinum. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album and the band's biggest hit, "More Human than Human", nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1996.

To promote the album, music videos for "More Human than Human", "Electric Head Pt. 2 (The Ecstasy)", and a live video for "Super-Charger Heaven" were released. In 1995, "More Human than Human" won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Rock Video.

There were also plans to start filming a video for "Blood, Milk and Sky" after Christmas as well as eventually filming a video for every song on the album.<ref>Miller, Gerri. "White Zombie Live & Backstage". Metal Edge Magazine. March, 1996. cited October 30, 2008</ref> However, these plans were scrapped when the band dissolved.

Accolades

Publication	Country	Accolade	Year	Rank
Kerrang!	United Kingdom	"Albums of the Year"<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>	1995	2
Rocksound	France	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1995	20
OOR	Netherlands	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1995	23
RAW	United Kingdom	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1995	*
Kerrang!	United Kingdom	"100 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die"<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>	1998	20
Pause & Play	United States	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	1999	11
Visions	Germany	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	2005	91
Classic Rock & Metal Hammer	United Kingdom	"The 200 Greatest Albums of the 90s"Template:CN	2006	*

Track listing

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Personnel

Adapted from the Astro-Creep: 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head liner notes.<ref name="linearnotes">Template:Cite AV media notes</ref>

White Zombie

• Rob Zombie – vocals
• Jay Yuenger – guitars
• Sean Yseult – bass
• John Tempesta – drums

Additional musicians

• Charlie Clouser – keyboards, programming

Production and additional personnel

• Terry Date – production, recording, mixing
• Lamont Hyde – mixing assistant
• Ted Jensen – mastering
• Wade Norton – recording assistant
• Ulrich Wild – recording
• Sean Yseult – art direction
• Rob Zombie – illustrations, art direction

Chart positions

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Chart (1995)	Peak position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	46
UK Albums (OCC)<ref name="UK">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	25

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Year	Title	Peak chart positions
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1995	"Electric Head Pt. 2 (The Ecstasy)"	27	—	95	31
	"More Human Than Human"	10	7	37	51
1996	"Super-Charger Heaven"	39	—	—	—
"—" denotes singles that were released but did not chart.

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United States	1995	Geffen	CD, CS, LP	GEF 24806
Europe	2012	Music on Vinyl	LP	MOVLP547

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