Biography
Rob Zombie is an American rock musician, famous as a vocalist of Gruss Metal Group "White Zombie", founded by them and Sean Aislot in 1985. After the collapse of the collective, the artist began the solo career.Childhood and youth
Robert Cammings (real name of the artist) was born on January 12, 1965 in Massachusetts, but already in 19 years he moved to New York. Parents of the musician worked by the organizers of all sorts of celebrations and therefore, extremely little time was given to sons (Rocker has a younger brother - Michael Cammings, which is the soloist of the Powerman 5000 group).
Later, in an interview, Rob said that in orphanages loved horror films. Also, together with the family survived an attack on a tent town. Cummingsm miraculously managed to survive.
Music
With difficulty, receiving a certificate of secondary education, Robert entered the college of the visual arts, which did not graduate. Before organizing its own music team "White Zombie", the singer for months worked by a courier and a loader.
In order to comply with the group that sings about the afterlife, Cummings changed the image and came up with a scenic pseudonym, becoming a rob zombie. From the first years of the musical career, the singer developed his corporate identity - long hair and the face overgrown with a beard, which attached to a young man, whose height is 178 cm, and the weight did not exceed 83 kg, the awesome look.
Rob remained a permanent vocalist "White Zombie" throughout the entire existence of the team. Interestingly, the second co-founder of the Sean Aisolt group played the bass guitar. The team also entered guitarist Jay Yuenger and the drummer Avan De Prum, who was replaced by John Tempest after 6 years.
The first work in the discography of the musicians was the album "Soul-Crusher", which did not bring special fame. The second disk "Make Them Die Slowly" was met with critics positively. Iggy Pop participated in the record of the third plate. Well, the last disk "Astro-Creep: 2000" even took the 6th line in the Billboard 200 hit parade and received platinum status. By the time of the beginning of the solo career, the singer had extensive experience in creating rock music, so immediately achieved some success.
In 1997, Rob organized his own project, continuing to develop the genre of music Industrial and Groove Metal. Satisfied in the recording studio for ten months, the singer to the joy of fans released the first album "Hellbilly Deluxe". It is known that the circulation of the record three times exceeded the circles of the albums "White Zombie".
Over the next year, the artist toured with concerts by cities and countries. As a result, Hellbilly Deluxe became platinum three times and during a couple of months was in the top of the most sought-after musical compositions in Europe. The second Single of the musician, who saw the light in 1998, became the song "Living Dead Girl" ("Living Grand Gerl"). Later, Zombies released a collection of remixes of the debut plate and even wrote a soundtrack for the film "Mission Impossible 2".
After a successful Kinebut Rocker released the second album and invited Ozzy Osborne to work on him, Tommy Lee from "Motley Crue", Kerry King from Slayer, DJ flew from Limp Bizkit and Alice Cooper. Release CD "The Sinister Urge" made a lot of noise among lovers of songs "Snubble" and failed to taste even the most pressing musical gourmet.
In the period from 2006 to 2016, the release of the "EDUCATED HORSES", "Hellbilly Deluxe 2", "Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor" and "The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser" took place. For a couple of singles with "The Electric Warlock" clips were removed.
At the moment, in the project Rob Zombie, in addition to Rob himself, Ginger Fish (drums), John 5 (Guitar) and Piggy D. (Guitar) are involved. It is worth noting that Ginger and John were previously members of the Marilyn Manson team and for a couple of years acted with Brian Hugh on the same stage, releaseing albums in the world, which eventually become mainstream.
Films
Rob, in addition to music, took up the director and work the screenwriter. In March 2003, the "House of 1000 Dead" tape was released on large screens, created in the traditional style of horror films with elements of black humor. In a picture oriented on real kinomans, and not at random passers-by, the wife of Zombie starred, as well as the actors of LED Hayig and Karen Black.
Two years later, the premiere of the sequel of the film "Houses of 1000 Dead" called "Called by the Devil" took place.
2007 was marked by the release of Halloween 2007 thriller. In the film, which is a remake of the 1978 tape of John Karpenter of 1978, was starred, Malcolm McDowell and William Forsight.
This time, Rob offered the audience to take a look at the fate of Michael Myers's killer under a different angle and understand what pushed him on the path of violence and served as a series of bloody events of the next years. It is noteworthy that the film has been positively evaluated against the background of the best American slashers "Texas Renalar Massacre", "Travel", "Friday 13".
In August 2009, the release of the second part of the painting "Halloween 2007" took place. Initially, Zombies refused to work on the continuation of his remake, feeling that he had no enthusiasm to create another film.
Two years later, unsuccessful attempts to write a continuation script, Brothers Weinstein and Rob Zombie, who again had an interest in working on the film, wrote a script. It paid great attention to the relations of the main characters - Lori and Michael.
In the same year, another picture was completed - this time a multiplication comedy with elements of Horror "Ghost world of El Superbisto". In the animation film, positive heroes join the fight against Dr. Satan.
In 2013, the Rob's filmography was replenished with a mystical thriller "Lords of Salem", the plot of which tells about the inhabitants of the city of Salem, which is a witch habitat.
In 2016, an inspired by the theme of Halloween, the director creates a picture of "31", in which we were talking about five people abducted on the eve of the holiday and the Manyak victims. Interestingly, in secondary roles, fans of Rob Zombie appeared, who helped him with the financing of the project.
In addition to writing scenarios and producing, Zombies are also engaged in both voice acting. It is known that in the film James Gunna "Guardians of the Galaxy" voice of the rock musician talked to a navigation computer system of devastants.
Personal life
There is very little information in the network regarding the personal life of the rock artist. After moving to New York, Rob met with Sean Aisolt, with which he organized a joint group. Even when young people have already broke up, they continued to play in the same music team.
It is reliably known that in October 2002, the vocalist legalized its relations with the actress and designer of Sury Moon Zombie, with which the singer had met for a couple of years.
Few people know, but, despite the fact that Rob sings about the unclean and hell, he himself is a believer Christian. Therefore, it is not surprising that the wedding took place, which was held in the church, which was attended by a priest.
Now the spouses live soul into the soul. The artist is a frequent guest on the shows of his wife, and she keeps her husband in everything. It is worth noting: Surya is very proud of the fact that her beloved is not standing on the spot and, in addition to music, also implements their ambitions and in the cinema, trying herself as director and producer.
Rob Zombies now
In 2017, Rob travels around cities and countries, pleaseing the fans by the execution of both old compositions and new hits. In August, Rocker performed at the Maximus festival, passing in Argentina, and sang for the song "Dead City Radio And The New Gods of Super Town", Super Beast and Living Dead Girl.
At the same time, the artist reported that she was preparing a new album for the exit. True, the singer's release date was silent. In anticipation of the new plate, fans remain only to listen to the old singles and revise the clips.
Despite the fact that the performer now gives himself touring and work on new material, Cummings does not forget about subscribers. In "Instagram" the musician often lays out a photo from performances and personal archive.
It is worth noting that social networks are not the only resource telling fans of the latest news from the life of their favorite. On the official Rocker website, anyone can order Merch, see the schedule of concerts, and also familiarize yourself with the creative star biography.
Interest in the theme of the Apocalypse The author will implement in Horror "Three from Hell", which will be released, presumably in 2019. In a new film, the musician will perform as director, screenwriter and producer of the project.
Filmography
- 2003 - "House 1000 corpses"
- 2005 - "Cutting Devil"
- 2007 - "Greyindhaus"
- 2007 - "Halloween 2007"
- 2009 - "The exciting world of El Superbesto"
- 2009 - "Halloween 2"
- 2013 - "Lords of Salem"
- 2016 - "31"
Discography
- 1998 - Hellbilly Deluxe
- 2001 - The Sinister Urge
- 2006 - Educated Horses
- 2010 - Hellbilly Deluxe 2
- 2013 - VENOMOUS RAT REGENERATION VENDOR
- 2016 - The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser