Coinciding with the November 25th release of the WHITE ZOMBIE box set Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, Morgan Y. Evans at CrusherMagazine.com recently spoke with former WHITE ZOMBIE bassist Sean Yseult about the band's career. An excerpt from the in-depth discussion appears below.

MYE: Every different stage, it’s all there. You always encompassed every stage of the band in every stage of the band, if people listen closely. There’s lots of hints and dialogue between all of it. It just morphed and was always all there within the different sides of the band’s carnival aspect.

SY: "The heart of White Zombie and what we were doing was always the same idea. We were always a little too metal for the underground art scene and a little too weird for the metal scene. It all worked out in the end [laughing]."

MYE: I remember when I first discovered the band like a lot of people when I was younger through 'Thunder Kiss ‘65'. It was darker and more metal than some of the alternative bands, more weird and edgy.

SY: "Rob and I, when we met, we were checking out hardcore matinees every Sunday at CB’s and in the East Village. We used to listen to a lot of bands like BLACK SABBATH from way back and that was something different with us from lots of the other bands. It didn’t quite fit in."

MYE: It wasn’t cheesy metal, though. It was more grimy. There was a mockery of evangelical stuff and more. In the ‘80s there was the mass denial that things were bad and in the ‘90s all this optimism when the Clintons came. Even in the early ‘90s you guys kind of came along to the mainstream and it was all sort of campy and mocking things and a joke and it was so metal.

SY: "[laughing] That’s a good assessment of it. We always had our love of horror movies and Russ Meyer’s films and the elements that go along with that. A certain camp element goes along with a lot of the darkness there."

MYE: What’s it like having this all collected for you? Now that time has passed, that is?

SY: "I’ve always had all these records. Rob and I each kept a stash of the seven inches and stuff we put out over the years, but it’s great to have the wider release of the stuff! I’ve had so many people ask for it over the years, and it’s great to have it in one box and let people hear it from beginning to end."

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A press release for Let Sleeping Corpses Lie reads as follows:

Disc One of Let Sleeping Corpses Lie includes all of the tracks released on the New York City band’s own Silent Explosion label--the four songs on the 1985 Gods On Voodoo Moon EP, of which only 300 copies were pressed; the two songs on the 1986 Pig Heaven EP, which had only 1,000 made; and the seven on 1987’s Psycho-Head Blowout EP, which NIRVANA’s Kurt Cobain called one of his favorite albums.

Disc Two encompasses White Zombie’s first two full-length albums, 1987’s Soul-Crusher, which began on Silent Explosion but was re-released by Caroline Records the following year, and 1989’s Make Them Die Slowly.

Disc Three offers the three-selection God Of Thunder EP and the band’s 1992 major label debut, La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1, which broke the band into the Top 40, earned double platinum and spawned the Best Hard Rock Performance Grammy-nominated “Thunder Kiss ‘65” and “Black Sunshine” (with Iggy Pop). Also heard is “I Am Hell” from the soundtrack to the 1993 animated flick The Beavis & Butt-head Experience.

Disc Four opens with 'Children Of The Grave' from a 1994 BLACK SABBATH tribute album and Feed The Gods from that year’s Airheads soundtrack album. The centerpiece, however, is 1995’s Astro-Creep: 2000, Songs Of Love, Destruction And Other Synthetic Delusions Of The Electric Head, which ranked in the Top 10 for two months, was certified triple platinum and spun off the Modern Rock Top 10, Grammy nominated 'More Human Than Human'. The 64 Let Sleeping Corpses Lie recordings conclude with 1996 soundtrack contributions to Escape From L.A., Beavis And Butt-head Do America and The Crow: City Of Angels, with its Grammy nominated cover of the disco hit “I’m Your Boogieman.”

Among the DVD’s videos are those for 'More Human Than Human', winner of the MTV Video Music Award for Best Hard Rock Video, as well as 'Thunder Kiss ’65', 'Black Sunshine', 'Super-Charger Heaven', 'I’m Your Boogieman' and 'The One'. Live performances include 'Soul-Crusher', 'Spiderbaby (Yeah Yeah Yeah)', 'I Am Hell' and 'Creature Of The Wheel'.

White Zombie stopped touring and recording in 1998 after the release of the Hellbilly Deluxe, the triple platinum solo debut for Rob Zombie, who has since enjoyed continued success both on record and as a film director with his vision of the dark side.

Track Listing:

Disc 1

'Gentleman Junkie', 'King of Souls', 'Tales From the Scarecrowman', 'Cat’s Eye Resurrection', 'Pig Heaven', 'Slaughter The Grey', 'Eighty-Eight', 'Fast Jungle', 'Gun Crazy', 'Kick', 'Memphis', 'Magdalene', 'True Crime'.

Disc 2

'Ratmouth', 'Shack of Hate', 'Drowning the Colossus', 'Crow III', 'Die, Zombie, Die', 'Skin', 'Truck On Fire', 'Future-Shock', 'Scumkill', 'Diamond Ass', 'Demonspeed', 'Disaster Blaster', 'Murderworld', 'Revenge', 'Acid Flesh', 'Power Hungry', 'Godslayer'.

Disc 3

'God Of Thunder', 'Love Razor', 'Disaster Blaster 2', 'Welcome to Planet Motherfucker / Psychoholic Slag', 'Knuckle Duster (Radio 1-A)', 'Thunder Kiss ‘65', 'Black Sunshine', 'Soul-Crusher', 'Cosmic Monsters Inc.', 'Spiderbaby (Yeah-Yeah-Yeah)', 'I Am Legend', 'Knuckle Duster (Radio 2-B)', 'Thrust!', 'One Big Crunch', 'Grindhouse (A Go-Go)', 'Starface', 'Warp Asylum', 'I Am Hell'.

Disc 4

'Children Of The Grave', 'Feed The Gods', 'Electric Head Pt. 1 (The Agony)', 'Super-Charger Heaven', 'Real Solution #9 - Creature Of The Wheel', 'Electric Head Pt. 2 (The Ecstacy)', 'Grease Paint And Monkey Brains', 'I, Zombie', 'More Human Than Human', 'El Phantasmo and The Chicken-Run Blast-O-Rama', 'Blur The Technicolor', 'Blood, Milk and Sky', 'The One', 'I’m Your Boogieman', 'Ratfinks', 'Suicide Tanks and Cannibal Girls'.

Disc 5 (DVD):

'Thunder Kiss ’65', 'Black Sunshine', 'Welcome To Planet Mf', 'Feed The Gods', 'More Human Than Human', 'Super-Charger Heaven', 'Electric Head - Pt. II (The Ecstasy)', 'I’m Your Boogieman', 'The One'.

Live: 'Soul-Crusher', 'Spiderbaby (Yeah Yeah Yeah)', 'Thrust!', 'Black Sunshine', 'Cosmic Monsters Inc.', 'Thunder Kiss ’65', 'Electric Head - Pt. I (The Agony), 'I Am Hell', 'Welcome To Planet Mf', 'Creature Of The Wheel'.

To view a video trailer click here.