Rob Zombie Goes Top 10, Hitting The Road and Directing CSI Episode
02/16/2010
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Rob Zombie's album Hellbilly Deluxe 2 has debuted at no 8 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart with upwards of 48,500 units sold in its first week of release. The album also takes the top spot on the Hard Music chart, arriving at #1.Rob Zombie and crew will soon be hitting the road to co-headline this year's Mayhem Festival kicking off in San Bernadino, CA at the San Manuel Ampitheater on Saturday, July 10th (please see below for tour dates). In other Rob Zombie news, the accomplished filmmaker will make his television directorial debut with an episode of CBS' highly-rated show CSI: Miami set to air on Monday, March 1st at 10:00PM, EST. With more than 15 million albums sold, 7 Grammy nominations, the helming of 4 major motion pictures and dozens of music videos under his belt, Rob Zombie is a force to be reckoned with in today's entertainment landscape. Zombie's unique meld of horror and hard rock has influenced his sound as a musician, and more recently his vision as a director and writer. This marks Zombie's second Top Ten debut in 6 months
the Zombie-helmed Halloween 2 landed at #3 at the box office in August, 2009 and went on to become one of the biggest horror movies of the year, grossing more than $37 million to date. Zombie's sinister directorial vision is responsible for reviving the Halloween franchise: the first installment of Halloween debuted at #1 at the box office in 2007, breaking all Labor Day Weekend 2007 records and has since grossed an estimated $80 million worldwide. HELLBILLY DELUXE 2 hits streets more than a dozen years after its predecessor HELLBILLY DELUXE, which established Rob Zombie as a solo artist after the demise of his cutting edge band White Zombie. The album features all the demonic stylings for which Rob Zombie and his longtime bandmates guitarist John 5, bassist Piggy D and drummer Tommy Clufetos have come to be known. ROB ZOMBIE co-headlining Mayhem Festival JULY 10 San Bernadino, CA San Manuel Ampitheater 11 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Ampitheatre 13 Southeast Auburn, WA White River Ampitheater 14 Nampa, ID Idaho Center Ampitheater 16 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Wireless Pavilion 17 Albuquerque, NM Journal Pavilion 18 Englewood, CO Comfort Dental Ampitheatre 20 Maryland Heights, MO Verizon Wireless Ampitheater 21 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center 23 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center 24 Hartford, CT The Comcast Center 25 Montreal, QC Parc Jean Drapeau 27 Mansfield, MA Comcast Center 28 Holmdel, NJ P.N.C. Bank Arts Center 30 Tinley Park, IL First Midwest Bank Ampitheatre 31 Noblesville, IN Verizon Wireless Music Center AUGUST 1 Atlanta, GA Lakewood Ampitheatre 4 Virginia Beach, VA Virginia Beach Ampitheatre 6 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre 7 Pittsburgh, PA Post Gazette Pavilion At Star Lake 8 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live 10 Tampa, FL Ford Ampitheatre 11 West Palm Beach, FL Cruzan Ampitheater 13 Dallas, TX SuperPages.com Center 14 Oklahoma City, OK Zoo Ampitheatre
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