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ROB ZOMBIE To Release First-Ever Concert DVD

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ROB ZOMBIE guitarist John 5 (real name: John William Lowery) has toldAbsolutePunk.net that the band will capture its current live show for an upcoming concert DVD. Said John: "This is big news. I haven't talked about this. 30 years, ROB ZOMBIE, WHITE ZOMBIE — never done a live DVD. We're doing one this year. The show's so big. It can't get much bigger, so I'm like, 'We better record this!'" Rob Zombie's fifth album, "Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor", sold 34,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 7 on The Billboard 200 chart. The record arrived in stores on April 23 via Zodiac Swan/T-Boy/Ume. The CD was produced by Bob Marlette, who has previously worked with everyone from BLACK SABBATH and ALICE COOPER to WILSON PHILLIPS and LYNYRD SKYNYRD. Zombie told Artist Direct in an interview that "Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor" could one day make it to the big screen as aZombie-directed film. The rocker and filmmaker explained, "I think it could. I made it with that in mind. At least in my mind — no one else knows this — I wanted to have a storyline that runs through the record so if someday I wanted to make it into a movie musical like THE WHO's
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ROB ZOMBIE To Guest On ‘Counting Cars’

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As the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival kick-off date for San Bernardino, California was ramping up and the fans were lining up, main-stage closing artist Rob Zombie was doing a bit of heavy metal double tasking — filming behind-the-scenes for History channel's "Counting Cars". The episode, in which the Count's Kustoms crew delivers a custom macabre-style overhaul on Rob's 1967 Ford F-100, will air on Tuesday, July 16 at 9 p.m. Eastern/8 p.m. Central Time. Although the crew at Las Vegas-based Count's Kustoms are not new to the game, the finished product was no small feat. "Counting Cars" starDanny "The Count" Koker and his crew had just seven days to work on the truck and deliver it to Rob at the San Bernardino show — a turnaround faster than they've ever experienced on any project.
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ROB ZOMBIE’s ‘Great American Nightmare’ To Terrorize Los Angeles This Fall

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Groundbreaking musician and filmmaker Rob Zombie will unleash his"Great American Nightmare" on Los Angeles this Halloween season. This bone-chilling experience will combine the most advanced haunted house attractions with a not-to-be-missed music festival from top artists in hard rock, alternative, EDM, and more, every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from October 10 through November 2, 2013 at the Fairplex FEARplex in Pomona, California, just outside Los Angeles. A creative collaboration between masters of the macabre Rob Zombieand preeminent haunted house producer Steve Kopelman, the fully immersive haunted house experience will feature three attractions based on Zombie's own horror films: "Lords Of Salem Total Black Out", "The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto 3D" and "Haunt Of 1,000 Corpses". The shocking — and sometimes disturbing — fright attractions will offer a three-dimensional experience with animatronics and effects, a maze that is the ultimate definition of claustrophobia and fear, sudden chills and startling thrills, and salacioushumor that will make one scream with fright and laughter.
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