Once again, I use the BangShift Tune-Up as a way of motivating myself into action first thing in the morning. In this case, I need to go straight from waking up to pulling out the tools and tearing into the Angry Grandpa Chrysler. Guess who knocked the front end damn near clean out of the car? You guessed it. So while I’m busy pissing off the neighbors with the sounds of the air compressor, impact wrench and the occasional four-letter bomb blast when I eventually remove skin from my knuckles, why not enjoy a song from the soundtrack that has filled my shop time since my earlier wrenching days?

When Rob Zombie’s Hellbilly Deluxe album leaked out onto a particular Seattle radio station a little bit before it was supposed to, it was a big deal. Prior to this, I’d been in the land of grunge music, period…alternative rock, ska, the swing revival, and the first sparks of what became nu-metal permeated the airwaves, but there was no getting away from Soundgarden, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains and their peers. Both of the major rock-ish stations had a strong mix of “Seattle music” going…and at the time, I was sick of it. I got introduced to White Zombie just a few months before Rob went solo, so I knew that he was capable and that I liked the White Zombie sound. But when the mainstream rock station unloaded “Dragula”, I was instantly hooked. A tribute to Grandpa Munster’s hot rod in song form, and featuring what appears to be the Munster Koach in the music video, it was car-related enough that I would’ve been hooked anyways, but that beat that is almost impossible to not headbang to sealed the deal…right up until I heard “Superbeast”, anyways.

Ripping gears and stirring up fears…that’s the Zombie way. Check it out!