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White Zombie
Band New York United States Active 1985–1998
White Zombie formed in 1985 in New York, United States and was active until 1998. White Zombie has 117 chart appearances on 66 radio countdowns from 32 stations on RockLists, spanning 1993–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “More Human Than Human”, which appears on 58 lists with a best position of #9. The station that charted White Zombie most often is KISW (Seattle-Tacoma, WA), with 29 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1995.
White Zombie started out in New York City in 1985 as a noise rock band, grinding out 3 EPs and an album of scuzzy, abrasive racket before they figured out that heavy metal was a better vehicle for their B-movie obsessions. Rob Zombie howled and ranted up front, Sean Yseult was there from the beginning, Jay Yuenger joined in 1989, and the lineup kept shifting around them, with Ivan de Prume, Phil Buerstatte and John Tempesta among those who passed through.
La Sexorcisto: Devil Music, Vol. 1 in 1992 is where it all clicked: groove metal with a leering grin, riffs thick as tar, and "Thunder Kiss '65" as its hot-rod anthem, the heavier sound that finally broke them into the mainstream. Astro-Creep: 2000 in 1995 went further into the machine, industrial metal that's colder, harder and more mechanical, and "More Human Than Human" is the payoff: a lurching, mechanical monster of a groove with Zombie growling over the top like a drive-in preacher.
Both albums made them a force in their respective corners of metal, and they sold 6 million records along the way. It didn't last: the band officially called it quits in 1998.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by White Zombie on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More Human Than Human | 58 | #9 | – | 1995 | |
| 2 | Thunder Kiss '65 | 34 | #46 | – | 1993 | |
| 3 | Super Charger Heaven | 7 | #27 | – | 1997 | |
| 4 | Electric Head Part 2 (The Ecstasy) | 5 | #512 | – | – | |
| 5 | Black Sunshine | 5 | #185 | – | – | |
| 6 | Electric Head Pt. 2 | 2 | #292 | – | – | |
| 7 | Children Of The Grave | 3 | #474 | – | – | |
| 8 | Thunderkiss | 1 | #44 | – | 1997 | |
| 9 | Thunderkiss '65 (KFMDM Remix) | 1 | #58 | – | 1993 | |
| 10 | Dragula | 1 | #912 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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