Make Them Die Slowly (album)

Make Them Die Slowly is the second studio album by American rock band White Zombie, released on March 22, 1989, by Caroline Records.

Produced by composer Bill Laswell and featuring John Ricci on guitar, the album represented a transition from the noise rock influenced sound of White Zombie's previous releases to heavy metal, which informed much of their later work.

I hate the way this record sounds, not to mention my memories of Laswell sitting me down and making me play in a chair, having me hit the strings ever so lightly so I wouldn’t 'clip' the note – what a pile of bullshit!Some of the songs cut from the release are "Dead Ringer", "Freak War", "Punishment Park", "Scum Kill II", and "Star Slammer".

[7] Although he had previously disliked the heavy metal scene, Rob's opinion changed after borrowing Metallica's Ride the Lightning from drummer Ivan de Prume.

[10] Trouser Press wrote "there are traces of the old art-damage – most perceptibly on the plodding 'Godslayer', which is well-steeped in Funhouse-era Stoogery – but producer Bill Laswell keeps the band on track".

wrote that the album featured "meticulously crafted songs that each lead to bloodshedding climaxes of unbottled fury", but concluded that "the overall canned sound of the record is a harmful, if not fatal, wound".

[13] In his review of White Zombie's 2016 box set It Came from N.Y.C., Pitchfork's Evan Minsker said that Laswell's production "placed a huge emphasis on Ricci’s guitar and Zombie’s voice while neutering the rhythm section [...] The overall effect is especially draining when taken in the box set’s chronological order: the noise dominance of Soul-Crusher followed by the sluggish, monotonous Make Them Die Slowly.