Rob Zombie Biography

Rob Zombie was born in 1965 in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Young Rob grew up inspired by both rock music and horror films, but his first aspirations were in the area of art, and he attended the Parsons School of Design in New York before establishing the band White Zombie in the mid 1980’s. Rob rose to fame as the front man for the group, giving audiences such hits as  “Thunder Kiss ’65,” “More Human than Human,” and the chart-topping album Astro-Creep: 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head.

White Zombie disbanded in 1997, and Rob Zombie launched a solo career, releasing the album Hellbilly Deluxe: 13 Tales of Cadaverous Cavorting Inside the Spookshow International in 1998. The album debuted at the top of the charts, at number five, and surpasses the record sales of any previous White Zombie album. The album reached multi-platinum status and spawned the singles “Dragula,” “Superbeast,” and “Living Dead Girl,” obviously tapping into Rob Zombie’s fascination with the macabre. Since then, Rob Zombie has released the albums The Sinister Urge (2001), Educated Horses (2006), Hellbilly Deluxe 2: Noble Jackals, Penny Dreadfuls and the Systematic Dehumanization of Cool (2010), and Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor (2013.) In total, Rob Zombie has so far sold more than fifteen million albums worldwide.

In addition to his music, Rob Zombie has branched out into film, both as actor and director. He has appeared in the films and television shows Airheads (1994), Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1997), Justice League Unlimited (2003), Slither (2006), Super (2010), and Counting Cars (2013.) As a director, Zombie has a number of films credited to his name, including: House of 1000 Corpses (2003), The Devil’s Rejects (2005), Halloween (2007), Halloween II (2009), and The Lords of Salem (2013.)

Rob Zombie continues to perform, record, act, and direct. He most recently completed a US and European tour alongside Marilyn Manson.