“Behold, The Pretty Filthy Creatures!” and “Lucifer Rising” are both particularly fast-paced tracks for Rob Zombie, exhibiting the reckless abandon of a greasy motorcycle gang. Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor is a record with zero inhibitions, from its title to its songwriting and its production, which gives Rob Zombie the most legitimately massive-feeling sound he’s maybe ever had.
At the other end of the scale, there’s the track that immediately follows it: lead single “Dead City Radio And The New Gods Of Supertown.” Here’s where the party really starts – Hammond organ accents and all. “Teenage Nosferatu Pussy” is one of the most legitimately sinister tracks in his discography, its mid-paced but remorseless march oozing sleaze and sinister intent. Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor is Zombie wholly back to his most ludicrous best, bearing the most colossal set of arena-worthy anthems he’d penned so far in the 21st Century. Opening your album with a song called “Teenage Nosferatu Pussy” doesn’t, either. Who else but Rob Zombie could call an album that and have fans think, Yep, that seems about right? The fact that he followed it up with an even more absurdly titled album, The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser, says it all, but with its Technicolor artwork and that moniker, Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor doesn’t exactly scream “subtle.”
(Seriously, can you imagine Rob Zombie’s garage?) With Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor, however, it was time to make things planet-sized again.įor a start – you didn’t misread it – this record really is called Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor. It was an album that saw Rob Zombie adopting a more collaborative approach to writing with his band an album that, while being unmistakably Rob Zombie, often felt – quite charmingly – like a bunch of guys cranking out tunes in Zombie’s garage, surrounded by all the weird things that undoubtedly hang on those walls. Though a sequel, Hellbilly Deluxe 2 wasn’t a replica of former triumphs given a glossy new paint job.