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Gotta disagree that this album is where they began making changes to their sound. They were more of meandering "noise rock" band in the beginning. It was on Make Them Die Slowly that they first worked within more defined song structures. And it's a pretty solid album, if you can get past its shit production.

But the God of Thunder EP, the first album to feature J on guitar, is where the La Sexorcisto sound emerged.

Not sure I'd call this stoner metal, either, but whatever. And it's far better than an 81/100.

How is this not a classic?

My thoughts fucking exactly. No one would consider this truly excellent? Wrong.

Good point, but I'd honestly consider Astro Creep their classic. Moreso than this one, anyway.

Hell, I wouldn't argue that both aren't classics.

90/100 for me.

I think this album is great but is not quite a classic as I feel there's a few glitches, like the mentioned drum mix. This album needed to exist because it was certainly the blueprint for what was to come.

Astro-creep is nothing less than a bona fide classic. Now that's an album I still listen to on a regular basis and have done ever since I bought it back in '95. For some reason I have never tired of it whereas other similar albums of its generation, like Psalm 69 or The Downward Spiral, I've sometimes gone years without playing.

For real. This album is the soundtrack to my life. I need to get a new copy cuz my current one is all worn out. This one went through plenty of bongs and road trips.

I've never heard any issues with the drums.

Wow, I didn't know this band was this good. Gotta check some of their stuff out I guess.

I was also wondering why it isn't a classic...

They just sound a bit too loud IMO, nothing major, just something I notice when I'm listening to it.

As for this not being a classic, I don't think that it deserves classic status for two reasons. First, this is the band's first really good, really listenable album and because of that they do not always create the best songs possible due to the experimentation going on. Second, Astro-Creep came out a few years later and in my opinion, blows this right out of the water with a much more mature sound. That album was definitely more influential than this. I suppose you can make the argument that they're both classics, I simply disagree.

+1 agreed. Couldn't have put it any better myself

Same here. Growing up I heard a lot of his solo work on the radio, but I never really dug it so I never felt the need to check out White Zombie. Maybe I need to re-listen to his work now that I'm a bit older.

Can't go wrong with La Sexorcisto or Astro Creep. Make Them Die Slowly is also really good, but the production sucks. A re-recording of that album would make it killer. God of Thunder EP is also great. Before those, however, they kind of sucked.

Just check out Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, it's a box set Rob Zombie put out that has everything White Zombie ever recorded, and he remastered the entire thing. The only issue is pre La Sexorcisto, Rob himself sounds like a dying cat. You can finally make out what's supposed to be going on in the Soul Crusher album though.

That box set pissed me off.

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Why weren't all those songs included? Dude said it'll include "everything White Zombie ever recorded." That's the shit I was looking forward to. Some of those songs sound really cool; much better than what ended up on those early albums.

Never liked these guys, never will. I always thought this album was a bit boring, repetitive, and stale. There's maybe a few good tracks, the rest is fairly skippable.

Yeah, never got the appeal. Always sounded like a weak mixture of Ministry and Kyuss to me.

Sometimes I really wonder about you. They sound nothing like Ministry or Kyuss, combined or otherwise. In fact, White Zombie/Rob Zombie had their own unique sound until that rip-off artist Riggs formed Scum of the Earth and stole not only White Zombie's/Rob Zombie's sound but also the band name.

The operative words there, of course, being "to me".