Zombie Live

When he went solo, Rob Zombie built a reputation for over-the-top live shows heavy on lasers, pyro, and video screens. But in 2005, he delivered stripped-down daytime sets on Ozzfest, with the band wearing T-shirts and jeans and playing classic rock covers along with their own songs. The following year, he released Educated Horses, a dark and moody album that moved away from the chugging industrial rock and sampled horror-movie dialogue of his earlier work and incorporated acoustic instruments and a more conventional rock sound. Zombie Live, recorded on the Educated Horses tour, was a return to bombastic showmanship, but the new songs (“American Witch,” “Let It All Bleed Out,” and especially the creepy, country-fried “The Devil’s Rejects” and the doom-metal stomp “Lords of Salem”) are an intriguing contrast with the rest of the set, which includes the expected fist-pumpers like “Dragula” and “Living Dead Girl” alongside White Zombie classics like “Thunder Kiss ’65” and “More Human Than Human.”