Zombie has also established a career as a film director, creating the movies House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects, the 2007 remake of Halloween, its sequel, and The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. His next film will be the upcoming The Lords of Salem which is scheduled to premiere in theaters sometime in 2012. The group officially disbanded in 1998 shortly after the release of lead singer Rob Zombie’s solo album Hellbilly Deluxe. A tongue in cheek reference to Dwight Yoakam’s Hillbilly Deluxe, Zombie’s debut solo album, Hellbilly Deluxe, in 1998, produced by Scott Humphrey.

Zombie has also established a career as a film director, creating the movies House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects, the 2007 remake of Halloween, its sequel, and The Haunted World of El Superbeasto. in 2003, Zombie released his first greatest hits album Past, Present & Future, containing hit songs both from his solo band and White Zombie. After a 2002-2003 world tour, Mike Riggs and John Tempesta left Zombie to form a similar band, Scum of the Earth. Zombie posted an update on his website, stating: “Well, we have for the first time ever written more songs than we need for an album. For the first time in 12 years, Zombie will return to the United Kingdom to play a string of six dates in support of Hellbilly Deluxe 2. On March 4, 2011, Rob Zombie said that he would record a CD after he completes his upcoming film The Lords of Salem. Zombie supplied the vocals for Drowning Pool’s song “Man Without Fear” for the soundtrack to the 2003 film Daredevil. The film was shot in a surreal and over-the-top style that alternated between dark and campy humor.

He founded the heavy metal band White Zombie and has been nominated three times as a solo artist for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. His next film will be the upcoming The Lords of Salem which is scheduled to premiere in theaters sometime in 2012. Based in New York, White Zombie was originally a noise rock band in the vein of fellow New York band Sonic Youth and Texas experimental punk band Butthole Surfers. Following their signing to Geffen Records, White Zombie achieved commercial success, with a double and triple platinum album and a large number of their songs featured in movies and TV shows (notably Beavis and Butthead and Millennium).

White Zombie was known for combining heavy-metal music with driving guitar riffs (as on “Super-Charger Heaven”), overlayed with lyrics heavily influenced by horror films and pseudo-Satanic imagery. Unlike other metal bands of the 1990s, White Zombie was almost exclusively a “fantasy” band, writing songs not about life but about the surreal. Following their signing to Geffen Records, White Zombie achieved commercial success, with a double and triple platinum album and a large number of their songs featured in movies and TV shows (notably Beavis and Butthead and Millennium). The group officially disbanded in 1998 shortly after the release of lead singer Rob Zombie’s solo album Hellbilly Deluxe. in a 2008 interview to promote the release of Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, Rob Zombie made it clear that a reunion with his White Zombie bandmates was unlikely, saying, “I don’t want fans to think it’s the beginning of anything.” Cummings legally changed his name to Rob Zombie, his former stage name, in 1996.