John 5 spoke to the
"Talk Toomey" podcast about
ROB ZOMBIE's forthcoming studio album, which will arrive later this year via the iconic rocker's new record label,
Nuclear Blast Records.
"The
ZOMBIE album is wrapped, mixed, mastered and heavy and awesome and hooky and musical and badass,"
John 5 said (hear audio below). "[It is] the best
ZOMBIE record to date — better than
WHITE ZOMBIE, anything… He went nuts on this one. I'm telling you, it's the best
ZOMBIE record you guys will hear. And we're gonna have a big tour, we're gonna do videos."
He added: "I've been in the band with the guy forever and I just love him."
Last year,
John 5 compared
ROB ZOMBIE's upcoming album to
THE BEATLES' groundbreaking LP
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", saying that it is "by far the best
Zombie record that he's ever done." He added: "A lot of people say, 'Oh, it's just our greatest record,' and I don't say that. Whatever I say is so honest when I'm doing interviews. So I think it's our best record."
When asked what makes the new
Rob Zombie album so special compared to his previous records,
John 5 said: "First of all,
Rob did incredible with the lyrics and the melody — unbelievable!
"What he did this time around… We did it… I don't even know if he wants me to talk about this, but how we went about it is… We would usually, me and
Rob would come up with some music," he said. "He'd be, like, 'I like that music, and let's write to that music. I'm going to write my lyrics and melody to that music that we just created.' So what happened this time is he wrote lyrics and melody to, like, drum beats and sounds, and he came up with, in my opinion, the hookiest, most memorable lyrics and melody that he has ever. And what he did is brought me in and
then we worked on the music, and it was un-fucking-believable; it just worked so well."
"The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser" was the second consecutive effort to feature
Zombie and
John 5 alongside bassist
Piggy D. and drummer
Ginger Fish.
Zombie told
Loudwire about his upcoming album: "I think it's the best record we've made. Parts of it are the heaviest, parts are the weirdest, it's the most complex record we've ever made, but at the same time, it's always very catchy and listenable, but it's the most intricately structured record."
He added: "There are those songs that go in a direction we've never even gone near before. Personally, I like records that are very varied in sound. Not just like, 'Oh, here's 12 super heavy tracks,’ and they're all the same tempo. I like records that are all over the place. That's why I think my favorite
BEATLES record was always The White Album."