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White Zombie is a 1933 film about zombies starring Bela Lugosi. Possibly the first ever movie in this genre.
External links: imdb page (http://imdb.com/title/tt0023694)
White Zombie is also a metal band named after the 1933 film starring Bela Lugosi. Founded by Rob Zombie (Rob Cummings) and Sean Yseult (Shauna Reynolds) in 1985, with Tom Guay with guitar and Ivan de Prume on drums. John Ricci later replaced Tom Guay only to quit in 1989. Jay Noel Yuenger then replaced Ricci. During the La Sexorcisto tour Ivan de Prume was fired and replaced by Phil Beurstatte who was then replaced by John Tempesta.
The band cut a number of semi-independent recordings in New York in the 1980s, these included the albums Soul Crusher and Make Them Die Slowly, as well as the EPs Gods on Voodoo Moon, Psycho-Head Blowout and God of Thunder. The band released a 45, Slaughter the Grey, in 1986. White Zombie's first major-label album, La Sexorcisto, was released in 1992, followed in 1995 by Astro-Creep: 2000. In 1996, an album of remixes was released under the title Supersexy Swingin' Sounds.
The band officially disbanded in 1998.
White Zombie was known for combining heavy-metal music with driving lead guitar riffs (as on Super-Charger Heaven), overlayed with lyrics heavily influenced by horror films, with sometimes non-sensical imagery. Unlike other metal bands of the 1990s, White Zombie was exclusively a "fantasy" band, one that wrote songs not about real life, but simply about surreal horror fantasies, backed by whimsical live tours.
While Rob Zombie has mostly kept the image of his former band, fans of both have noted significant musical differences between the two, notably the absence of the heavy bass and lead guitar playing that characterised White Zombie's musical style.
See also: House of 1000 Corpses
External links: Psychoholic World of White Zombie (http://www.gustavus.edu/~dkuster/zombie/)
White+Rob Zombie Zombieland2 (http://rzr.online.fr/zombie.htm)
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