ROB ZOMBIE Talks About The Making Of 'Educated Horses'

Audiohead.net has posted an exclusive interview with Rob Zombie and his producer Scott Humphrey. In this five-page feature story, Zombie and Humphrey talk with Audiohead.net editor Steph Jorgl about the making of Zombie's new album, "Educated Horses", and how the idea for doing a "The Devil's Rejects" song came about. Zombie also speaks at length about his songwriting and filmmaking process, what it takes to succeed as an artist or filmmaker, and how he ties all the creative elements of his visual and sonic arts and his live shows together. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

On blending his music world with film:

Zombie: "I've always thought of music in a visual way. I know the song is working when I start picturing things in my mind. I know music does that for everyone when it's finished, but for me, that happens when I'm writing. And when I'm writing, that's always how I've always approached things. . . I've always done the artwork for all the t-shirts and album covers for all these years — that was something I always loved to do. But then I always loved movies and music, and as a kid, you just want to do everything. And at this point now, it's like I really have the opportunity to bring everything all together as one."

On the initial efforts to do a new Rob Zombie record, which originally started two years ago:

Zombie: "It's not that the stuff from way back sounded old — it's just that I wasn't in the groove back then because my head was on the movie. After I went on Ozzfest with a new band — that's when I got back in the groove to do music. And when I came off Ozzfest, we started the record up again. But we didn't use anything from two years ago. So really, in reality we've only been working on this record since October 2005, which is kind of nice. And it's really come together."

Humphrey: "Josh Freese played on some tracks back in March or April before Rob had put a new band together. When Rob came off Ozzfest and we started working on this new record, elements from some stuff that we started last year, like some of Josh's drum tracks, have come into the new songs."

"I think a lot of the time you’ll end up using a lot of tracks when you're not really sure what you want or what you’re going to keep. But I think the decisions for this record were made really quickly. There wasn't a lot of indecision — it came together really quickly. It was written and recorded within just two months."

Read the entire article at Audiohead.net.