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. 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 younger brother Michael David Cummings was born on August 25, 1968 and is better known as Spider One, the frontman of alternative metal group Powerman 5000. 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. in 1997, Zombie contributed a song entitled “The Great American Nightmare” for the Howard Stern movie, Private Parts. Zombie formed his own solo band in 1998.

The group officially disbanded in 1998 shortly after the release of lead singer Rob Zombie’s solo album Hellbilly Deluxe. The song was nominated for a Grammy for Best Metal Performance the same year. The album was a success, selling three million copies domestically. However, the songs “Seventeen Year Locust” and “The Scorpion Sleeps” do concern themselves with creepy-crawlies. On May 31, 2006, Zombie was joined onstage by guitarist Slash (Guns N’ Roses, Velvet Revolver), Gilby Clarke (formerly of Guns N’ Roses) on rhythm guitar, Scott Ian of Anthrax on bass, Tommy Lee of Mötley Crüe on drums and special guest Ace Frehley of Kiss also on lead guitar. To fill in, Zombie hired Piggy D. of Amen and Wednesday 13 fame as a permanent replacement. So far, only the CD has surfaced. 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.

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. Born Robert Bartleh Cummings in Haverhill, Massachusetts, he was the first of two sons. 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. 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). 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. Since January 6, 1999, it has been the opening theme for Stern’s radio show. This release contained the singles “Never Gonna Stop (The Red Red Kroovy)”, “Feel So Numb” and “Demon Speeding”. Instead, between 2003 and 2005, Zombie directed and released two horror films, House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil’s Rejects.