No Filler Music Podcast - Devil Music: White Zombie's La Sexorcisto (Bonus Halloween Episode)

Episode Date: October 31, 2022

For our very special bonus Halloween episode, we chat about the perfect record for cruising around on Halloween night: White Zombie's 1992 La Sexorcisto. Also called Devil Music Volume One, the record is a "movie for the ears" with sampled clips from horror and grindhouse films scattered throughout. Join us as we throw up the horns and summon Beelzebub with some proper devil music. Tracklist Knuckle Duster - Radio 1-A Thunder Kiss '65 Knuckle Duster - Radio 2-B Thrust! One Big Crunch Grindhouse (A Go-Go) This show is part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I think this is our fourth year in a row of doing a Halloween episode, Q? Yeah, I think so, dude. So we did The Undoing of David Wright was our first one, which that episode still holds a special place in my heart, dude. That one was a blast. Yep, that was good. John Carpenter was out the next one? I believe so. And then it was Uncle Acid in the Deadbeat, which have been.

the last two episodes on the channel. I thought since Halloween falls on a Monday this year, tonight, as you're listening, this is Halloween, right? You know, our episodes fall on a Monday. So I wanted to have some of our previous Halloween episodes leading us up to this moment when we could drop our Halloween episode on our release day, our typical release day, you know, which is Monday night. So that means you also have the what you heard for October.

in your feed as well. If all goes well, Q, I pieced it together because I haven't done it yet, which I just kind of give you a peek behind the curtain here. It's not actually Halloween when we're recording this. But it sure does feel like a Q because we're listening to, I want to see if you can guess who that, what, could you tell the vocalist? Anything that I say is going to upset you.

Just give a shot. Give a shot. I mean, just don't see Metallica. Just don't say Metallica. I'm not kidding you. I was about to say it sounds like James Heffield. But I didn't, I wasn't going to go the route of, that's Metallica. I was going to go the route of what other project is he been doing? Here's a guess number two. Okay. Limp biscuit. Just kidding. I, dude, I don't know. I really don't. You know how I am, man.

I'm not a metal head. I'm not even a metal fan, really. Totally fine. And that's what's interesting about this record, Q, is it appealed to a lot of people outside of the metal, you know, metal circles, right? But that was Rob Zombie. Okay. And the record is actually from his, you know, his initial band, White Zombie. So this is a record called Les Sexorcisto Devil Music Volume One. That's the name of the record. And when did this come out? It came out in 1992. Okay. So third studio record by White Zombie. And their first kind of foray into just more like, I guess, approachable, accessible, heavy metal riffs and stuff like that. They actually started as like an art rock college band, oddly enough. Like they art school kids that met up and started making music, right? A tale is oldest time, right? But Rob Zombie, obviously, is almost more known now for his horror movies, right? Because he's, he has done a ton of stuff. He did Devil's Rejects and he did House of a Thousand Corpses.

And then more, I guess, controversially, he did a Halloween reboot back in 2007. He did his own version of Michael Myers and Halloween and stuff like that. Yeah, I'm looking at his filmography. He did another one, Halloween too. Yeah, he did one. He did two. And then he just kind of, it sounds like he, his Munsters remake that just came out was a massive dud apparently.

Oh, man. Which, yeah. The stills from it looked really cool. Yeah. Yeah, apparently he just wasn't good. So anyway, he's controversial in the horror circles. People love and hate him kind of thing. But, you know, originally he was, you know, white zombie, rob zombie, right?

Doesn't his wife do everything with him? Yeah, and that's... Okay. Yeah, they're like a team. That's one of the reasons that people are like, come on, man. You really have to include your wife again. She's not that good at her. Oh, she's an actress.

Okay. Yeah, she, she, he includes her in all of his films. Gotcha. Anyway, so I think most people probably know if there's one white zombie song that you know, it's probably more human than human. Everybody remembers that song for the 90s. If you don't recall it, like you would know it if I played it for you. Okay.

You would instantly recognize it if you heard the opening riff too. You just might not, you probably don't know that it's white zombie, but it's white zombie. That was kind of like their biggest hit. But this was the record that kind of put them on the map. And the reason that I'm playing it for this bonus Halloween episode is because all throughout this record are samples from like B horror movies and like, you know, like what are the grind house type movies and stuff like that. Yeah. Specifically, he plays a lot from zombie films. He's got Dawn of the Dead.

He's got, yeah, Nine of the Living Dead, Hellraiser 2, The Omen, the Exorcist. So Rob Zombie, obviously, a massive horror fan. That's why he makes horror movies, right? And it was just really cool what they did with this record. I'm going to quote this guy who wrote a 30-year, retro perspective on the record because 30 years this year actually March of 22 was the 30 year anniversary which is kind of kind of a big deal but I like the way that this guy says this here he says that it's a it's a movie for your ears oh I like that and it kind of plays like a long

form right like a much like you know it's probably safe to say the queens of the stone age were paying homage a little bit to this record because there's a couple of tracks and we're going to play one of them that are, you know, just 20-second tracks, but it's like you're flipping through the radio station in your car and you're hearing some stuff, just like songs for the deaf, right? Totally. Yeah, I'm sure they're huge white zombie fans. Yeah, I mean, here's the thing.

He, uh, white zombie actually went on tour with Caius at some point in the 90s, which is, you know, there you go, man. Josh Hami's first, I guess his first more successful band. Anyway, so this is going to be short and sweet. We're just going to jump right into tunes here. And yeah, this record, man, after I play these two tracks for you, people out there listening, what I would suggest you do, jump in your car and just hit play on track one, drive around your neighborhood, you know, jump out, grab some candy, go to the next house, grab some more candy if you still do. do that or with your kids or whatever. But have this record on in the background.

It's perfect for just cruising around on Halloween night. Awesome. Everything about this record is just like steeped and like just this really grungy kind of like rough around the edges kind of like vibe and stuff like that. This is actually a really good explanation.

From this guy, somebody did a review on metal archives said the band themselves, they kind of looked like a bunch of apocalyptic voodoo hippies who had gone on a shoplifting spree through Vegas and the sunset strip. Oh my gosh, yeah. I'm looking at the album cover now. Yeah, that's perfect, man. They had a vibe, a whole vibe gone. All right, so here we go. We're actually going to jump down

and we're going to focus on the last part of the record, I guess. But we're going to start and we're going to have these songs play into each other because that's how it was intended to be in the record. So I'm going to play this first track here and it's going to lead us into the next one. This is one of those like radio intermission type songs. So this is called knuckle duster, Radio 2B, and it's going to fade in, or it's going to transition into a song called Thrust. Here we go. And what we have to ask is, why is it that God has admonished us to hate evil? Well, first of all, God. member of their body.

Right. But homelessness and all there. And now the voice you've been waiting for. Blast, right? It's just like an onslaught of like, you know, sensory overload, right?

There's just so much stuff going on. And that, you know, sort of, that sample that you heard was from a radio broadcast that was played in the Night of the Living Dead film, right? the zombies, you know, coming back and seeking out their human victims and stuff. But anyway, really cool.

Yeah, that was great. And obviously, the name White Zombie is the name of a 1932 horror film starring Bella Legosi, which is, you know, the universal monster, Dracula, right? The famous Dracula that everybody thinks of, right? So even their name is from horror, right? So everything about this group is steeped in, horror. And it's a perfect companion to metal, right? Horror and metal have always been... Two sides, dude, at the same coin. Two sides of the same coin. Absolutely. And, you know, that's what

makes this record so enjoyable to listen to because, you know, as you heard, they, they do a great job integrating those clips into it to where it really does sound like you're, you're, it's part of the ride that you're going on. Definitely a labor of love, you can tell. Like piecing that all together. Yeah, let me, let me quote, uh, this guy from the metal music archives, this person, well, you only get a username. So this website, metalarchives.com, is literally just user-submitted reviews, right? So you just get a username. But this person wrote this in 2017, October 23rd.

So this person was also listening to this record in the month of October. He says, for me, the real attraction to devil music volume one was how it created this entire universe of horror, exploitation, smut and schlach, and then seamlessly fused it to the riffing and vocal styles. And yeah, that's perfect, dude. Definitely. Yeah, dude, that's great. Spot on. And I like how they call it double music. Because, like, you know, they're just sort of poking fun at, like, the, you know, the satanic panic stuff, right? Just like saying, yeah, it's double music. Like, you can call it if you want. We're going to call it that. Yeah. All right. Let's go to the next clip here.

the very next track, the clips that you're going to hear, once again, they're actually sampling music from the Night of the Living Dead film. And then you're going to hear a clip from the Texas chainsaw masker, 1974 horror film. And then there's going to be some sort of like clip from a 1950s teen instructional swimming film. So it's just a bunch of stuff, right? But anyway, All right, here we go. So this song is called One Big Crunch, and then it's going to fade into the next track on the record called Grind House a Go-Go. I feel like this should be blasted in a haunted house.

Like so loud that it's almost uncomfortable. Yeah, yeah. Well, I was actually thinking, like, you know, because we go and we, walk around the neighborhood with our nephew, his neighborhood, right, for Halloween. So I'm not going to be at my house tonight, I should

say, to hand out the candies and whatnot. So I was thinking, you know, maybe I'll just kind of open up my window in the front and just put like a speaker in there and just like have this on repeat or something like that. That would be sweet. Because we're going to have decorations and stuff

up and like candy in a bowl somewhere for somebody, some kid who wants to grab a handful, yeah. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Dude, you and I, we used to do this kind of stuff. Remember, when we were kids? All the time, man.

We had, we probably talked about this on the show before, but we used to do, you know, you really can't call it a haunted house, but it was more of a haunted front yard, I guess. It was a haunted porch. Yeah, it was a haunted porch. Yeah, you'd go up to the front of the house, and I guess we handed out candy at the end. And yet, you wrapped around, you walked around, you walked. walked around the side of our house, around to the side between the two houses. You get dumped into the alleyway basically.

You get dumped into the alley because we were the house at the very corner of the street. So you wouldn't, you know, you just bust the left and you're back on the street. Right, which I guess in retrospect may have been a little bit. You go, kids, good luck in the alleyway. You know what I mean? Well, you know what? This was, you know, this was the early 2000s. But yeah, yeah, we would basically hang up black.

We bought a bunch of black sheets from Joanne fabrics or whatever and just like hang it to create a tunnel kind of thing like in the in the porch right and you'd walk through and we had the kit one of the kitchen window was on the left. Yeah. Our best year we had one of our buddies sitting in the window in like a chair and we had like one of those lightning dome things that you can buy like Spencer's gifts or whatever. And, you know, we made the guy look like he was getting electrocuted, you know. Yeah, you know, I was the one who got electrocated, right? That was me. Oh, that was you? So you were the one shaken.

Yeah, I was shaking like I was getting electrocuted all night long. And I remember that might have been the same year that we had our buddy, Andrew, up on the roof with a chainsaw. Oh, yeah, with a chainsaw. Man, those are good times, dude. Which he probably actually had the chain on it, too. You know what I mean? Probably. Sounds like something he would do.

I want to say one time, one of our buddies was pretending to like hang in the tree or whatever. And like some punk teenagers like came up to him and like started poked him and shit. It was noodle. It was noodle. Of course it was. Yeah, I know. He always gets messed with. I thought it was Stefan.

You mean that guy's Stefan? Oh, yeah. Maybe. Did you ever? Well, whatever. Anyways. If you're listening out there, whoever was hanging in our tree or whatever, you know, reach out to us and hey sorry you know but that was not our fault i didn't i wasn't the one poking

yeah yeah it was the neighborhood punks or whatever well that was fun man that's a good good choice for this year a little bit of a uh just just a sampling because this is a 14 track record and as you can see you're going to go on a ride with these guys if you hit play you know the whole record is a whatever you call it pretty much like a play-through record or whatever. But the singles off this record, if you're curious. Thunder Kiss 65 and Black Sunshine, which featured Iggy Pop. He was on the track. Nice.

But yeah, man, it's just a blast to listen to. A lot of it has to do, a lot of the imagery and even the, you know, the lyrics have a lot to do with car, muscle car culture, I guess, like that, drag racing, stuff. that. The most played, the most sampled, I guess, movie on this record is a 1965

exploitation film called Faster Pussy Cat Kill Kill. Which is a movie about three go-go dancers who embark on a spree of kidnapping and murder in the California desert. It sounds like how this album sounds. Yeah, especially

when you read some of the lyrics. For this one, Grindhouse a Go-Go. Oh, yeah, just the title alone. Yeah, the title alone, right? Yeah, the chorus. Jump in the back, a pack attack, give me that, dig in. Lethal mind, fugitive kind, hustle. That's the chorus.

Awesome. Anyway, so yeah, cue this up, you know, as you head out and you're walking around your neighborhood tonight or driving around or doing whatever you're doing. You know, cue this up, hit play, and I think you'll enjoy it. And one more thing I wanted to, I wanted to, I wanted to, quote, I wanted to make sure I quoted this Kerrang article. Kerrang is like a really well-known metal website. The name of this review is called How White Zombies Les Sex Sorcisto

gave the 90s the metal it secretly craved. And he makes a really good point, this person, Chris Krobatan, makes an excellent point about how like, you know, in the 90s, it was all about alt rock and then very shortly after this record came out, grunge and like rock was you know sort of like reinventing itself reinventing itself like sort of in a way like taking itself kind of seriously the lyrics were more introspective and stuff like that but this record just said you know what we know what you guys want like you want to you still want to have fun we're not going to take ourselves seriously like we're just going to give you the

metal that you want you know because we're out of the 80s like there's no more spandex and stuff like that. You know, thrash kind of died. Death metal is kind of like what's about to happen. And like weird like new metal, like here's the metal that you actually want. You know what I mean? You know what I love about that, man? That is exactly what I can't remember his name, but lead singer of presidents of the United States of America. Yeah. Exact same thing. You know, we're here to lighten it up. Like I know like this, yeah, this is fun. Music. It's time to get silly. because disgrunch is just way too Yeah

Right too tough Yeah exactly So here's a quote He says With its reverb-drenched riffs Ragtag aesthetic Neon colors And old school horror references

Les Sexercisto Was undeniably rad And to deem oneself above it Was to announce that you were a joyless ass You got into rock and roll For all the wrong reasons Nice.

And then here's another quote. If there was one thing White Zombie were out to do, it was to entertain. And with Les Sexer Cisto, they provided all the druggie, creepy, high-octane heavy metal that fans craved, even if they were too focused on looking disillusioned and thoughtful to admit it. So kind of making fun of how seriously Rock was taking itself in the 90s. But, I mean, the funny thing is like corn was also in the 90s. So, I mean, Rock didn't always take itself all, you know, seriously, as they're making it out to be. I think they're referring to, you know, the grunge, the flannel, the more like, you know, depressed kind of lyrics that were more introspective.

90s email, too, right, was, was there. Right. Jimmy World and stuff like that. Anyway, spot on, I think. And that's what's great about this record. It's just a blast, man. Everything about it. Like, if you look at the back, I've got the vinyl right here.

If you look at the back, it's got like this like this drawing. You see that? Oh, yeah. That reminds me of that wrapped fink kind of stuff. Exactly. Yeah, but that's exactly. Exactly. And that's, I wonder if that is the same artist.

Could be. But that's more of that sort of like racing, drag racing culture, right? Yeah. Anyway. All right. So that was a couple of tracks from White Zombies' 1992 record, Les Xorcisto Devil Music Volume 1. So again, cue it up, hit play, and, you know, have a safe Halloween night.

Don't make stupid decisions, people out there if you're still young enough to party, because we're not. Well, happy Halloween, everyone. Don't eat too much candy. Don't spoil your dinner. And Q, thank you for jumping on. I know you're a busy man. You're joining the rat race like the rest of us.

You've got a desk job now. That's right. You're doing that nine to five grind. you know, 8 to 5, actually. 8 to 5, whoa. So is that an hour for lunch or what, 30 minutes? It's kind of whenever I can find the time.

We don't, it's not like scheduled. I see. At least not for now. I'm during my training. We'll see. I will try to hop on here as often as I can. Well, you know, we're coming up on December. That means 2022 rap is coming up.

And that's, that's an episode a week devoted. to counting down our faves. So we'll have to figure out how to do that because we got to do it, Q. Got to do it. Well, you know, you're coming up here in December, so that'll throw wrench and things. Or we could record one together. Maybe we could record one together. We'll figure it out.

Yes, we will. And speaking of which, this will have already dropped, but twin sister, Mr. Twin Sister, one of my favorite groups is coming out with a new single. It dropped on Friday. listening today on Monday, Halloween. And I was listening to some like, they teased it a little bit on Instagram. It's going to be great, man. They got a saxophone coming in there, which they've done before.

So get ready. That's, they always, they always do this, man. They, they managed to make it on my best of list every year because they put singles out and stuff and I just love them so much, dude. So anyway, I'm excited. Actually, I'm, I'm actively excited. I'm already, I've already heard this song. That's right, because today is Halloween.

Correct. It is the 31st of October. It's definitely the 31st of October. All right. Well, thanks as always for listening. Find us on Instagram. Just search for No Filler Podcast. That is where we like to connect with our listeners.

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