The Great Satan is the eighth solo studio album by the American heavy metal musician Rob Zombie, released on February 27, 2026 by Nuclear Blast. The album marks Zombie's first since The Sinister Urge to feature guitarist Riggs and the first since Educated Horses to feature bassist Blasko.
Three singles have been released from the album: "Punks and Demons", which has a music video directed by Zombie himself, "Heathen Days", and "(I'm a) Rock 'N' Roller".
According to a press release, the album shows him "revisiting his early Hellbilly roots for a slaughterhouse of anthemic punk infused heavy rock/metal".
The album was released on February 27, 2026, by Nuclear Blast. "Punks and Demons", the album's first single was released on October 10, 2025 and was well received, with Metal Injection calling it an "unrelenting hellscape with loads of crunchy riffs." The second single, "Heathen Days" was released on November 21, and was described by Revolver Magazine as "hurtl[ing] at you with fuel-injected fury, pedal-to-the-metal guitar slides, weird synth-phonics and Zombie's incomparable vocal style".
For Blabbermouth.net, Dom Lawson writes that The Great Satan "is a rock 'n' roll record belched from the swirling depths of one unusually creative man's imagination: And it rocks like an absolute motherfucker", noting that it "offers a fresh take on the same thrillingly perverse ingredients", he notes that "Rob Zombie's eighth studio album echoes its predecessors in the best way possible. It is cool. It is funny. It is heavy. It is, in the best possible way, profoundly fucked up." He concludes by opining, "On this evidence, he seems to be picking up steam again. Nothing was cool anymore, so someone had to do something." Neil Z. Yeung wrote that "Sticking to what he knows best, Rob Zombie delivers another punishing -- but a hell of a fun time! -- collection of "Hellbilly" insanity", noting that "The Great Satan absolutely rips, with the jagged riffs, wild audio samples, and jackhammer drumming (courtesy of Ginger Fish) supporting some of Zombie's best (and most rabid) vocals in many an album", concluding simply that "It's really nice to hear that the old ghoul has still got it."
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