Past, Present & Future

This retrospective roars down the highway like a dragster decked out with devil horns and human skulls. Sporting a few White Zombie ragers, the collection kicks off with “Thunder Kiss ’65,” an industrialized metal groover in which the singer’s hellish growl rides motor-psycho power chords and hip-swiveling wah-wah. Shifting to Zombie’s solo stuff, “Dragula” is a pounding mash-up of horror-flick effects and hulking techno beats, while “Two-Lane Blacktop” is high-octane riff-metal showing off his love for early Alice Cooper shock-rock hooks.

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In addition to its host of past guilty pleasures, Past, Present & Future includes two previously unreleased songs and a DVD with ten Zombie-directed music videos, three of them never before seen.