Throughout his career, hard-rock icon and celebrated filmmaker Rob Zombie
has continuously challenged audiences as he stretches the boundaries of
music, film and the fan experience. Zombie’s frenetic summer schedule
includes a stop as the host of the first-ever Comic Con attendee party,
followed by the release of his remix album, Mondo Sex Head, in the midst of finishing up post production on his latest feature film The Lords of Salem,
working on his next film project “Broad Street Bullies” as well as a
working on a new album in the studio with Bob Marlette, and planning for
a tour.
Non-stop
and driven by his art, Zombie has sold over fifteen million albums
worldwide and has earned seven Grammy® nominations for his albums. He is
among only a handful of people to have unprecedented success for six
feature films as the writer and director. Zombie is no stranger to
working with and pushing the limits of all modern-day art mediums to
accomplish his vision.
Now, as the ultimate curator of the fan experience, Rob Zombie
will take over San Diego’s Petco Park to ring in Comic-Con as host of
the first-ever official Comic-Con Opening Night Attendee Welcome Party,
“Dawn of the Con,” on Thursday, July 12, 5:30 – 11PM PT. Presented by VH1, “Dawn
of the Con” promises a night full of fantasy, science fiction, monsters
and heavy metal for all Comic-Con attendees. Additionally, partygoers
will get a sneak peek of his new remix album Mondo Sex Head.
Zombie’s latest project, Mondo Sex Head, features new and unique remixes of Rob Zombie
classics by some of today’s top DJs and curated and executive produced
by Jason Bentley, Music Director at L.A.’s influential KCRW and
Electronic Dance Music expert. With Electronic Dance Movement (EDM) and
rock rapidly combining featuring remixes by the likes of KoRn’s
Jonathan “JDevil” Davis (“Thunder Kiss ‘65”), Photek (“Living Dead
Girl”), Document One (“Let It All Bleed Out”), Ki:Theory (“Foxy Foxy”
& “Pussy Liquor”), Big Black Delta (“More Human Than Human”), ††† aka Chino of Deftones
(“Dragula”), Das Kapital (“Lords of Salem”), Drumcorps (“Never Gonna
Stop”), former Glitch Mob member Kraddy (“Superbeast”) and the Bloody
Beetroots (“Burn”), among others. Each track was hand selected by Rob Zombie who road-tested many of the songs in his car, driving the L.A. streets.
Rob Zombie’s upcoming film The Lords of Salem is almost complete.
Zombie’s next film endeavor is the story of the “Broad Street Bullies,”
the legendary mid-1970's version of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey.
The project has the support of the Flyer’s organization, which will
cooperate with Zombie and pull no punches in telling the team’s
incredible story. This will be Zombie’s first biographical film, his
previous film credits, with box office total of more than $121 million,
include the cult smash House of 1000 Corpses (Lionsgate 2003), its sequel The Devil’s Rejects (Lionsgate 2005), the animated film The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (Film Roman 2009), and the blockbuster re-imagining of John Carpenter’s Halloween (Dimension 2007), along with its sequel Halloween 2 (Dimension 2009).
