He founded the heavy metal band White Zombie and has been nominated three times as a solo artist for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. His younger brother Michael David Cummings was born on August 25, 1968 and is better known as Spider One, the frontman of alternative metal group Powerman 5000. Based in New York, White Zombie was originally a noise rock band in the vein of fellow New York band Sonic Youth and Texas experimental punk band Butthole Surfers. in 1996, Zombie collaborated with Alice Cooper on the song “Hands of Death (Burn Baby Burn)” for the X-Files tie-in CD Songs in the Key of X. It was Zombie’s first work outside of White Zombie. Since January 6, 1999, it has been the opening theme for Stern’s radio show.
