Rob Zombie Goes Funk-Metal at Aftershock

September 15, 2014

At the end of a sold-out spectacular Aftershock Festival weekend packed with blazingly intense metal & hard rock, Rob Zombie and his apocalyptically-clad cohorts delivered a maniacally awesome headlining set that eschewed the standard doom and gloom of the genre he’s mastered, for something much more funky.

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The man is James Brown reincarnated, a goddamned metal-funk kingpin who jived, strutted and roared his way through a wildly celebrated performance in Sacramento’s Discovery Park. Rolling through every classic jam from “Living Dead Girl” to “Super Beast” and back again, Zombie and his goth bell-bottoms inspired a maniacally aggressive pit and girls flashing their goods like it was the pre-smartphone era. Check out a full photo gallery from Zombie’s Aftershock Festival performance below, exclusively on Crave:

Rob Zombie at Aftershock Festival

Rob Zombie at Aftershock Festival

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Rob Zombie at Aftershock Festival

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