Astro-Creep: 2000

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.Veneris, Andreas. "Interview: White Zombie/J". VIBE. December 8, 1995, at Rosemont Horizon, Chicago. cited October 31, 2008 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.{{Cite journal |last=Anon. |date=May 19, 1995 |title=White Zombie |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Hard-Report/1995/Hard-Report-1995-05-19.pdf |journal=The Hard Report |issue=424 |pages=49–51 |access-date=March 19, 2024 |via=worldradiohistory.com}} Recording was scheduled to commence in September 1994,{{Cite journal |last=Sholin |first=Dave |date=August 12, 1994 |title=Sho-Talk |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Gavin-Report/90/94/Gavin-1994-08-12.pdf |journal=Gavin Report |issue=2017 |page=9}} and the album was finished by Christmas 1994.

The album is much heavier than La Sexorcisto and has been called "white-trash-on-acid metal" by Stephen Thomas Erlewine of 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).{{Citation needed|date=May 2015}}

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.{{Citation needed|date=August 2020}}

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.{{Cite journal |last=Larsen |first=Dave |date=May 19, 1995 |title=New life for White Zombie |journal=Dayton Daily News |type=Go! |page=18 |id={{ProQuest|253818945}}}}

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."Engleheart, Murray. "White Zombie Monster Cars & Monster Music". Rip. October, 1995. cited October 30, 2008

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| rev5 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev5score = B+{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/1995/04/14/astro-creep-2000-songs-love-destruction-and-other-synthetic-delusions-electric/ |title=Astro Creep: 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head |last=Zogbi |first=Marina |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=April 14, 1995 |access-date=April 22, 2012 |page=64}}

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| rev7 = Los Angeles Times

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| rev8 = The Philadelphia Inquirer

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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.Miller, Gerri. "White Zombie Live & Backstage". Metal Edge Magazine. March, 1996. cited October 30, 2008 However, these plans were scrapped when the band dissolved.

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| title2 = Super-Charger Heaven

| length2 = 3:37

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| title3 = Real Solution #9

| length3 = 4:44

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| title4 = Creature of the Wheel

| length4 = 3:25

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| title5 = Electric Head Pt. 2 (The Ecstasy)

| length5 = 3:53

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| title7 = I, Zombie

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| length8 = 4:28

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| title9 = El Phantasmo and the Chicken-Run Blast-O-Rama

| length9 = 4:13

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| title10 = Blur the Technicolor

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{{note|Where the Sidewalk Ends}}I "Blood, Milk and Sky" contains the hidden track "Where the Sidewalk Ends, the Bug Parade Begins" at 8:45, after 3 minutes of silence. On the digital version, however, the hidden track is its own 2:33 track.{{Cite web|url=https://open.spotify.com/album/3HugnfabsMODIbxzwxS5xC|title = Astro Creep: 2000 Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head|website = Spotify|year = 1995}}

Adapted from the Astro-Creep: 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head liner notes.{{cite AV media notes |title=Astro-Creep: 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head |others=White Zombie |year=1995 |type=booklet |publisher=Geffen Records |location=Los Angeles, California}}

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

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• Charlie Clouser – keyboards, programming

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;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

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