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Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor (2013)

Where the lyrics of Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor take you, and where it was really made.

Rob Zombie's fifth solo album came out four days after his film The Lords of Salem, and it sold 34,000 copies in the United States in its first week.

Key places

Recorded at NRG Studios (2013)

Recording site NRG Recording Studios (Hollywood) — The album was recorded at NRG Studios in North Hollywood, Los Angeles. The studio is listed among the recording locations in the release credits. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Recorded at The Blue Room, Woodland Hills (2013)

Recording site Very Loud House (Woodland Hills) — The Blue Room in Woodland Hills, California is listed as a recording location for the album. The point is set at city-center level, not at the studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor: fifth solo studio album by American musician Rob Zombie
• Released April 23, 2013, four days after the film The Lords of Salem
• Tracklisting confirmed on Zombie's Facebook page on February 22
• Lead single Dead City Radio and the New Gods of Supertown released with a music video on April 8, 2013

Background

• First Rob Zombie album with drummer Ginger Fish, who like John 5 was previously a member of Marilyn Manson
• Record Store Day 2013: promotional single of Dead City Radio and the New Gods of Supertown with Teenage Nosferatu Pussy on the b-side, pressed on colored 10-inch vinyl with a reverse groove
• Record Store Day artwork by Alex Horley
• The Record Store Day edit runs 3:54 instead of 3:28 and includes an extended pre-chorus and outro not heard on the album
• Best Buy offered a limited edition with a 3D sticker cover and a code for exclusive behind-the-scenes footage

Recording

• Recorded at NRG Studios in North Hollywood, Los Angeles
• Also recorded at The Blue Room in Woodland Hills, California
• Bob Marlette credited for keyboards, production, programming and engineering
• Kevin Churko handled mixing and mastering
• Mixed and mastered at The Hideout
• Josh Freese added drums
• Ava Lucia Skurkis, Zombie's niece, appears as a voice actress

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.discogs.com

Tracklist

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Robert Bartleh Cummings, born January 12, 1965 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, performs as Rob Zombie.
• He co-founded the heavy metal band White Zombie with Sean Yseult, and was its frontman.
• He took the stage name from the 1932 horror film White Zombie, which also gave the band its name.
• White Zombie released four studio albums and one remix album before breaking up in September 1998.

Career

• His solo debut, Hellbilly Deluxe (1998), sold over 3 million copies in the United States and spawned three singles.
• His second album, The Sinister Urge (2001), became his second platinum album in the U.S.
• He directed the horror film House of 1000 Corpses (released 2003), The Devil's Rejects (2005), and a remake of Halloween (2007), his highest-grossing film.
• Halloween II (2009), The Lords of Salem (2012), 31 (2016), and The Munsters (2022) followed.
• He released a total of eight studio albums, the most recent being The Great Satan (2026).

Members

• Current members include Mike Riggs (guitars), Blasko (bass), and Ryan Goff (drums).
• Guitarist John 5 left in 2022 after a 17-year tenure to join Mötley Crüe.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Reception

At release

• AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave a mixed review, saying there seems to be a concept album tying it together but that piecing it together would take patience
• Erlewine also questioned Zombie's decision to cover Grand Funk Railroad's We're an American Band
• Loudwire's Chuck Armstrong called it arguably Zombie's best album since his debut masterpiece
• Armstrong wrote that it is an album to listen to from beginning to end and then want to play again

Records

• First-week sales in the United States: 34,000 copies
• Debut at No. 7 on the Billboard 200 albums chart

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · es.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• Best Buy offered a limited edition with a 3D sticker cover and a code for exclusive behind-the-scenes footage on the making of the album.
• The Record Store Day edit of Dead City Radio runs 3:54 instead of 3:28 and adds an extended pre-chorus and outro not on the album.
• Ava Lucia Skurkis, credited as Rob Zombie's niece, voices a role on the album.
• Ginger Fish was the first drummer of Zombie's solo records to join from Marilyn Manson, the same former band as John 5.

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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