La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One

The album's sound is primarily groove metal with multiple B-movie samples. Rob Zombie explained he "wanted to keep a groovable dance element in the music", a trait that he found was often absent in metal music of the era. Iggy Pop provided a spoken introduction to the single "Black Sunshine".

In a 2021 interview, Sean Yseult reflected that the band were influenced by rap music during this time, including Ice-T, Run-DMC, LL Cool J, and Public Enemy: "Rob was very intent on merging some of the rhythms and beats of what we were hearing into some of our songs, and it worked well."[2]

Contrary to rumors, a "Devil Music Volume Two" was never planned for recording or release. Almost every song on the album made an appearance on the 1994 video game Way of the Warrior.

White Zombie toured for two years to promote La Sexorcisto. The tour was a critical success and some archived footage of the shows can be seen on the Let Sleeping Corpses Lie DVD. White Zombie began a five-month U.S. tour in April 1992, supporting such bands as My Sister's Machine, Paw, Testament, Pantera, Trouble and Crowbar.[3] In the fall of 1992, the band opened for Danzig on their How the Gods Kill tour in Europe and the United States, and wrapped up the year doing a brief U.S. tour, again supporting Pantera.[3] White Zombie spent most of 1993 and 1994 touring non-stop in support of La Sexorcisto. They toured with Monster Magnet in February and March 1993 and with Anthrax and Quicksand that summer.[3] White Zombie embarked on two more U.S. tours: one with Chemlab and Nudeswirl in the fall of 1993, and another with Prong and The Obsessed in early 1994.[3] The La Sexorcisto tour concluded in May 1994 with four Japanese shows, which were supported by Pantera.[3]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Rock Hard	9/10[5]
Rolling Stone	[6]

La Sexorcisto was both a critical and commercial success for White Zombie, climbing up the charts in the US and gaining massive MTV video airplay and mainstream rock radio airplay with "Thunder Kiss '65" and "Black Sunshine". Although released in early 1992, La Sexorcisto did not enter the Billboard 200 until 1993,[7] after the success of "Thunder Kiss '65", which reached number 26 on the Mainstream Rock chart.[8] It was certified Double Platinum by the RIAA, and gold by the CRIA.

Jacob N. Lunders of AllMusic praised the album with 4.5 out of 5 stars and claimed "Perhaps co-defining the future of heavy metal, White Zombie's major-label debut nearly equals fellow classics Guns N' Roses's Appetite for Destruction, The Cult's Electric, and Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger in significance".[4] In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked La Sexorcisto as 93rd on their list of 'The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time'.[9]

Adam McCann of Metal Digest praised La Sexorcisto as both a "seminal" and a "massive 90's album", and wrote, "This was the album which saw White Zombie take their sound to the next level by inserting a rocket into their rectum. Tracks such as 'Thunder Kiss '65' and 'Black Sunshine' saw the band prominently feature on MTV and before too long, White Zombie posters began to adorn thousands of teenage bedrooms."[10]

Some pressings of the CD incorrectly divide tracks 12 and 13, beginning track 13 at 3:31 of "Grindhouse (A Go-Go)".

Adapted from the La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One liner notes.[16]

• La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1 at Discogs (list of releases)