Zombie Creeping Flesh is a 1983 song by British Oi! punk rock band Peter and the Test Tube Babies. Named after the 1980 Italian film – and video nasty - Zombie Creeping Flesh (original title: Inferno dei morti-viventi and released internationally as Hell of the Living Dead), the song was released as a single by Trapper Records from Hove, Sussex. The record sleeve featured an image of actress Auretta Gay apparently being bitten by a Conquistador zombie from a different Italian film, Lucio Fulci’s Zombie Flesh Eaters.
Even though the film was directed by Bruno Mattei (Rats: Night of Terror; Cruel Jaws; Snuff Trap), the song’s lyrics reference director George A. Romero whose seminal movies Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Dawn of the Dead (1978) spawned the massive zombie sub-genre. Unlike many of the band’s songs, it was quite subdued and something of an epic, clocking in at over four minutes.
The dead have risen from the graves, movements slow, a vacant gaze
Living human flesh satisfies, no emotions showing in their eyes
Born to die but not to rest, stumblin’ Zombie Creeping Flesh.
Eat the living human prey, numbers rising every day
Takes one bite to be the same, the dead ain’t dead they live again
A thousand cities overwhelmed, survivors now thin on the ground
Amid the carnage and the screams, a camera shooting all the scenes
Zombies, actors and the eggs, strange things happening on the sets
Attacked the actors and film crew, soon Romero was one too
Related: The Cramps | Electric Frankenstein | Nasty – The Young Ones
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