Astro-Creep: 2000

Astro-Creep: 2000 - Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head (or simply Astro-Creep: 2000) is the fourth and final studio album by White Zombie. It was released through Geffen Records in 1995.

Album information
The album was highly anticipated due to the surprise success of the band’s previous release, La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1. The entire album took three months to write and another three to record.

Ivan DePrume, the drummer on La Sexorcisto, 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. Also they had hired Terry Date (Deftones, Pantera, Soundgarden) to produce Astro-Creep: 2000 for them. This album is their last original work, as Supersexy Swingin’ Sounds is merely a remix of this album.

Musically, this album is much heavier than La Sexorcisto, taking away much of the old punk/metal stylings of the previous album in turn for a heavier, darker thrash metal sound, or, as it has been called, “white-trash-on-acid metal.” The band also down-tuned the guitars and bass to give it the darker sound the songs required, going from standard E tuning to dropped C# (1.5 steps below standard E).