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White Zombie was co-founded by Rob Zombie, after coming up with the band idea in 1985 while attending Parsons School of Design in his junior year. Zombie named the band after a 1932 horror movie starring Bela Lugosi called White Zombie, considered the first true zombie movie (the movie title was also the source for Rob Zombie's stage name, as he was born Robert Cummings).
Colored publicity shot for White Zombie, featuring Brandon Hurst, Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, and John Harron. White Zombie premiered on July 28, 1932, in New York City's Rivoli Theatre. The film received a mixed box office reception upon its initial release, but was a great financial success for an independent film at the time.
It Came from N.Y.C. is a three-disc or five-LP anthology by American rock band White Zombie, released on June 3, 2016, by The Numero Group. [1] It collects all the material the group officially released between 1985 and 1989, including previously unreleased tracks from the Pig Heaven/Slaughter the Grey sessions.
The Magic Island inspired the stage play Zombie, written by Kenneth Webb, which opened in Manhattan, New York City, in February 1932. [10] [11] It also influenced the horror film White Zombie, directed by Victor Halperin, which was released in July of that same year. [11] White Zombie is widely considered the first feature-length zombie film.
[23] [24] Before the success of White Zombie, he worked as a production assistant for the children's show Pee-wee's Playhouse. [25] He took the stage name "Rob Zombie" from Bela Lugosi's 1932 horror film White Zombie, from which he also took White Zombie's band name. The name first shows up on White Zombie's 1989 EP God of Thunder.
Yuenger left the band in 1985, attended college, and by 1987 had moved to New York City. After several failed attempts at forming groups in New York and New Jersey, he met the members of White Zombie in early 1989 and auditioned successfully to join the group as their guitar player.
A viral March 4 Instagram post by the page UberFacts correlates the CDC's zombie guidance to Nostradamus' purported prediction of a zombie apocalypse taking place in 2021.
Gods on Voodoo Moon is the first recording and release by American rock band White Zombie, released independently as an EP in November 1985. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was their only release with Paul "Ena" Kostabi on guitar and Peter Landau on drums.