Zzyzx (Zeromancer album)

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Zzyzx
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Studio album by
Released1 September 2003
Genre Industrial rock
Label Cleopatra, Warner
Zeromancer chronology
Eurotrash
(2001)
Zzyzx
(2003)
Sinners International
(2009)

Zzyzx is the third studio album of the Norwegian industrial rock band Zeromancer. The album takes its title from the name of a road leading to, and named for, Zzyzx, California.

Contents

This album saw Zeromancer approaching a lighter sound with a more mainstream direction, but also more meaningful lyrics. The album spawned two singles, "Erotic Saints" followed by "Famous Last Words".

This was also their only album released through the Warner Music Group.

Track listing

  1. "Teenage Recoil"
  2. "Hollywood"
  3. "Famous Last Words"
  4. "Erotic Saints"
  5. "Idiot Music"
  6. "Stop the Noise!"
  7. "Feed You with a Kiss"
  8. "Lamp Halo"
  9. "Mosquito Coil"
  10. "Blood Music"
  11. "New Madonna" (bonus track)
  12. "Gone to Your Head" (bonus track)
  13. "Fractured" (bonus track)

There are several different versions of this album all with different songs at the end. This is track listing for 2004 Cleopatra Records version. All songs by Keller, Ljung, and Schröder. The last two songs are special tracks.

Personnel

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