White Zombie - More Human Than Human (REACTION!) 

"YEEEEEAH" -Rob Zombie

This song was inspired by the movie Blade Runner. The movie and song are both about synthetic humans with a predetermined life span. "More Human Than Human" is the motto of the Tyrell Corporation, which manufactures "Replicant" humans.

That guitar riff you think you've heard everywhere? You have. Hahaha. Movies, Sporting Events, Commercials, TV Shows, you name it.

Fun Fact: When Rob Zombie sings "I am the Nexus-1, I want more life fucker, I ain't done," He's making a direct reference to the first Bladerunner movie.

Metal heads LOVE this song actually.

I think you'd like thunder kiss 65 more. Great vid as always

Glad you guys enjoyed this. If you're checking out more White Zombie, "Black Sunshine" and "Thunder Kiss '65" FTW!

Zombie basically takes movies, processes them into lyrics, and makes them much cooler than they have any right to be.

This whole album was a banger. It has some weird industrial elements at times, but overall a fun metal album.

I don't care what genres you're typically a fan of, this song has always been the epitome of "not complex, but just sounds fucking good". It's a little repetitive, but you don't need to be some hardcore goth/industrial head to always have thought that this song BANGS 🤘 Edit: also I know Korn - Blind is on the poll... PLEASE try and get to covering that song at some point, it's basically the exact song that birthed the entire genre of Nu Metal

Never got into Rob's solo act but WZ were definitely in my goto Metal list. I got this the day it came out & the album was a staple for me for yrs.

i still love their cover of KC and the sunshine's "I'm your boogie man" for the Crow: city of angels soundtrack

Born in 77 bruh.. im still rocking White Zombie!

As an Old School Metalhead I was one of two people that I knew liked this band and White Zombie as well. Just was too groove based for them. But it was awesome live and in the club it was 🔥.

This song straight up converted me from a rap head to a metal head when it came out in the 90s. I remember this music video came on MTV at my grandma's house while I was sleeping over and it broke me.

I think it's pretty universal in rock that White Zombie was one of the bands you turned up the volume for pretty much across the board. They were regulars on pretty much every rock station. Their shit was just too fun to *not*, you'd be the only grumpy ass rocker in the room if you didn't get hype when it came on. Old heads might not have vibed with it, but I don't remember Zombie being any kind of controversial in the scene, they were just doin something different and had a lot of success crossing over from their lane. Funny enough, that porno intro was part of the gimmick that added to the fun. Everybody heard the iconic intro music and knew that the moaning was going to come next before the full groove sets in. It just had a really fun and rebellious build to it that motivated you to crank it up with a grin. That rebellious fun really is a fundamental of groundbreaking rock through the years, and that sort of 70s grimey, funky energy is definitely strong with Zombie.

Great reaction! John Tempesta was such a killer drummer. To me, Rob never surpassed the work he did with White Zombie. Just a great group of musicians making fun funky ass horror metal. Rob did all the artwork on their albums, too. And who else used a fuckin SLIDE GUITAR in metal at the time?!

White Zombie riffs were always really simple, catchy, and easy to learn. They're basically a fixture of the 90's metal kid starter pack, and will always have a place in my heart.

Sean Yseult is hitting that bass hard. She’s awesome with that thang!

"Blood, milk, sky" is one of their best. I saw them live when this album first came out....it was really good lol.

I always have preferred Thunderkiss 65 to this one, but this one is decent. I hope that you get to Thunderkiss 65 at some point as it is groovy as hell.

I diiiiiied when you started talking about how Rob Zombie is low-key flowing in a lot of these songs. It is a badass vibe lol.

This was legit, the theme song at my senior prom… damn the 90s were great.

“Thunderkiss ‘65” is another White Zombie banger, and I think it was their first single.

Rob Zombie and White Zombie are both dope! I saw him a few times and they almost always out performed the bands they were opening up for. I saw them with Danzig for instance and when Danzig hit the stage the crowd was already spent because White Zombie rocked us so damn hard.

I’m a 56 year old Metalhead & I love this song….That riff, bass line & his vocals are legit as all hell……..He does a cover of KC & Sunshine Bands “I’m your boogie man” that’s cool as hell

I worked at a huge 2000 person nightclub in Toronto when this came out. The club had a rock/alternative night every Saturday and this song would practically incite a riot on the dance floor.

literally headbanging in sync for well over 10 sec. pauses song. "I can see how this was ringing off back then."

Who else thinks Ryan could do a perfect vocal cover of any White Zombie song?

When I was 14, I took guitar lessons from Myles Kennedy at a music store. When my dad came to pick me up I asked him to enter a contest at the counter from the local radio station called Rock 106 and it was for an Ibanez Iceman guitar and backstage passes to White Zombie. We ended up winning and White Zombie ended up being my first concert ever. Meeting the band was really cool, but Rob Zombie walked in and did not seem happy to be there and as soon as he said hi, he was back out again. Then, the signed photo I got was stolen a week later. Still, a pretty cool experience though.

White Zombie was effing fantastic and bridged metal and industrial and gothic. We LOVED it and still do.

so good. john tempesta, the drummer in this band and for rob’s solo stuff also played with some of the biggest thrash bands so they have real metal cred, and more importantly he’s a big reason why songs like this one are so groovy and explosive sounding.

This song is part of metal's evolution in the edgelord '90s, somewhere between Nine Inch Nails and Type O Negative. Very few metalheads would say this is bullshit. Primitive and repetitive, yes, but a big piece of metal history.

as a core metal head I have to say that this song is fiiiiire

I was 16 years old when this album came out, listening to Metallica, Megadeth, Alice In Chains and the like but I was also super into the punk scene which you guys haven't touched much - Misfits, Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Cramps, Social Distortion - but when this album came out - Man, I became obsessed with White Zombie. Other suggestions though would be Super Charger Heaven and Electric Head Pt 1 and 2.

This whole band but especially this song is so much more attitude than it is melody and I kind of love it.

Black Sunshine is a good one by them. I think you guys might be ready for some Shoegaze though.

Love that this song is a reference to Blade Runner. Tyrell’s motto was “more human than human. I want more life fucker, I ain’t done!!!!

Ive went to about 31 of their shows back in the early 90's back to back baked out of mind, back when only 100 people were crammed into a small venue headbutting each other.

This did get played in the clubs and before that Thunder Kiss 65! Went off for sure , went to a lot of underground alternative goth /industrial /rock n roll clubs early 90s . I remember when TK65 got played at the club call TERMINATOR in SF in 92 - same year I saw them play to 80 people ? Anyhow the the dance floor lit up when TK 65 came on ! Great times!

Blur the Technicolor is my FAVORITE track from this album, it’s so 🔥🔥🔥

White Zombie - "Super charger heaven" Some of the overlooked bands of the 90's u could check out: Life of Agony (song: 'Weeds")... Ugly Kid Joe (song: "Milkman's son") ... Stuck Mojo (song: 'Rising')

Rob Zombie is also an Artist and had a job with a major magazine as a graphic layout artist (iirc). Most of the artwork you see along with Zombie (White or Rob) was created by Rob himself, and he did the peyote trip scene in the Beavis and Buthead movie.

I’m a 60’s and 70’s rock music lover and do really like this song.

La Sexorcisto is a classic. I used to dance to Thunder kiss ‘65 at the clubs. Black Sunshine is another favorite.

If you really want to get to the heart of this style groove, you have to appreciate the clear line to 70's funk. Especially George Clinton/Parliament Funkadelic. That bass line is straight out of the Bootsy Collins handbook.

Born in 64 I rock out to white zombie

Worked concerts in the '90s in Austin for a while. When Zombie came Rob wouldn't come out of the dressing room until we found him some crack. Took longer than anyone hoped

Their best groove is "Blur the Technicolor". Please check that song out, it's one of my favorite songs ever. White Zombie is criminally underrated.

White Zombie was such a great band. Loved Devil Music Vol1. That whole album is nothing but groove and also fun as Hell to drum to.

I grew up with Robbie Cummings (Rob Zombie) in Bradford Massachusetts. He's been into retro music & movies FOREVER! The band I used to roadie for played out with White Zombie in Boston, in the late 80's. #CardinalSinPR

You can mosh and get freaky groove dancing to this,this brings me back to the mid 90’s

It was also pretty popular in some bars when it got released (I was in college at the time). You see White Zombie/Rob Zombie music get used in movies, especially in "post apocalyptic" bars/clubs.

you guys might have heard the song in the movie "The Cable Guy", it's used in a pretty key scene.

Never Gonna Stop Me... literally one of the greatest bass riffs in music history.

Been to Ozzfest in Camden, NJ where White Zombie played. This was there opener. They electrified the drunken and stoned crowd on the lawn. Hell I was damn near passed out till I heard those first 3 notes.

Oh yeah, I loved some white zombie. I actually got so see them live touring for this album. SUCH a fun show 🤘

WHITE ZOMBIE > Rob Zombie Solo. This was the song that got them on the radio for the mainstream. When it played in a night club, a metalhead could rock to it, an industrial fan who goes to raves could vibe to it, and a pop fan could get into the groove. At this time Rob was also an animator and made short films. The title More Human Than Human is a direct line from Blade Runner, a movie about human replicants. Other lines in this song from that movie too. If you want to hear a more metal White Zombie song then listen to Black Sunshine. If you listen to it while driving you won't even notice your foot getting heavy until you realize you are going 90 on the freeway. Also check out Thunderkiss '65.

I saw them in Myrtle Beach in the 90s at a place called the Purple Gator 🐊 Korn and Corrosion Of Conformity opened up for them. I didn’t even know who Korn was then they hadn’t made it big yet. Incredible show till this day one of the best I’ve ever seen!

Thank you! You Gentleman are a gift. Awesome! You are THE BALLERS. Period.

Y'all got close! Fear Factory's first manager in the early 90s took their demos for their first album and went on to produce Korn and all those nu metal bands with their sound.

Thanks for covering this! Lifelong metal head, I literally hid this CD under my mattress in middle school. Yeeeeah!

I caught Rob Zombie last year in Indy. When he played this one and it kicked in, there were 1500 people jumping up and down in unison.

Saw them in concert with the Toadies in Evansville Indiana in 96 or 97....great show! 🤘

Living Dead Girl by Rob Zombie is my favorite from him. Fun fact: the cover of that album scared my mom so bad she threw out my copy. A week later she heard this song on the radio and told me she liked it. 🙄

Zombie holds appeal across time periods and genres, he is a rare bird.

I love and appreciate the fact that you guys checked out the full version and not the radio edit.

Love Rob Zombie and I started listening to rock and metal in the 70s. Can't play it and not smile. Catchy as hell!

Prime Terry Date production here, the whole album still sounds amazing even 27 years later 🤘👍

They're a lot of great tunes on Astro Creep:2000, would love to see a reaction to Electric Head Pt.1 or Blood, Milk and Sky.

This track cranked up is awesome, great band, great times

I saw White Zombie open for Anthrax on the Sound of White Noise tour. Lost my shirt. One of the best shows I've seen.

Still love it😊 It was great in the club back in the day too

Those moans at the beginning must be someone getting twisted into a pretzel to some Digital Bath

A big thing to remember is that a lot of metal bands that rose to prominence in the 90's grew up with a certain amount of hip hop in their lives. Even if they aren't explicitly rapping you can hear the influence in how they sing and the beats they use.

it's like i am earing it for the first time again watching you discovering it, goosebumps ...ThX

I don't think anyone didn't like white zombie back then. It was a universal hit.

I'm a metalhead and I still love this album. Fight me.

OH it's still ringing! I got you! Rob Zombie, White Zombie. This jam will outlast humanity.

I'm an old school metal head, and I will definitely bump this song.

This song was fire back in the day. Still is This song and thunderkiss 65 put Rob Zombie on the scene.

Got this the day the single came out. As soon as the keyboards came in, I was sure they'd tanked their career -- the techno crowd who'd be into the keys would get turned off by the aggression, the thrash crowd would be into the aggro but not the keys or the sparsity of the guitar, the grunge crowd would turn their noses up at Rob's new nasal tone, and the Top 40 crowd wouldn't have any reference to make sense of any of it. They'd shrunk their audience to "people who were into both Nine Inch Nails and Ministry" (a very small segment who liked heavy guitars, retro synths, and distorted nasal screaming, yet didn't give a shit that neither of the aforementioned bands were considered "authentically industrial" or "authentically metal" by genre purists). I was positive of it. The album went double platinum. Nobody ever accused me of being a prophet.

Its 2022...Rob Zombie is still AWESOME!!!

I had the biggest crush on their bass player in high school. And this song is what made me buy a guitar slide.

The sound evolved from Ministry. Around this time, a lot of hard rock groups started mimicking Ministry's fashion, and use of electronica. Al *Ministry put it all together. He is the man behind what would become industrial metal. Rob is still cool but don't get it twisted. Ministry is the reason for NIN, and Rob's evolution to this sound. "You know what you are" is my shit. Also, his side project "Attack ships on fire" by the Revolting Cocks is great. Al is the Prince of industrial. Producing, writing and arranging. Funny enough, the tracks I recommended don't have guitar or hardly any. If you wanna hear guitar, Ministry's "Burning Inside" is a classic.

I was hoping y'all would choose this song! Love this song so much. Would definitely check out White Zombie - I'm Your Boogie Man

I don’t know what it is, but I was hooked on White Zombie from the minute I heard them for the first time. That fandom translated to Rob Zombie’s solo stuff. I just love his style! I have a blacked out Harley that I named Sunshine, after the song Black Sunshine.

This song was used in the Netflix original "Altered Carbon." It was a cover however.

White Zombie was one of those bands that crossed genre lines. Was pretty well received by metal heads at the time. Ive always thought of Astro Creep 2000 as groove metal. I don't know a single metal head who lived through this ear that doesn't rate this album.

Rob Zombie, the only artist to get away with starting and ending each line with the same word, over and over again!

Strippers love White Zombie and Rob Zombie!! For real they love to dance to it.

All the heavy metal rock clubs in Germany and the U.S. rocked WZ during that time.they were a mosh pit kind of group at all clubs that played metal.they kick ass!!🤘😃✌

This definitely blew up and it's still catchy despite the repetitiveness. But, I agree with others who say there are better songs on this album. I was listening to Fu Manchu earlier today and think you guys would really dig them. Something like Laserbl'ast or Hogwash. They're definitely responsible for some of the best grooves in stoner rock.

"Noise rock" is something I don't think you've touched on much; it's mostly been a niche sort of genre. Though I'm a huge fan. Amphetamine Reptile forever!

I’ll never forget, I was 14 in an indoor paintball match and they put this on… it went off… fuckin good times…

One of the most frequently played songs in 1995 MTV channel. This song reminds me of "Alternative Nation" -one of the most popular MTV programs in mid 90s.

Zombie always sounded like dance music to me. It's rave music.

White Zombie was kind of hard to pin down for me. Definitely some industrial influence, electronica, groove metal...it felt like a convergence of styles to me. Little bit of the slide in there, which is very blues. My favorite off astro-creep was supercharger heaven. Groovy AF and that driving drum carrying it along...Devil man devil man calling devil man running in my head YEAH!

White Zombie is so much goddamn better than his solo career. Soo much better.

One of the best driving riffs in metal 🤘🏼🔥