![]() ![]() (That Type O chose to exchange insults with an imaginary audience on its “live” album tells you a lot about Type O.) These feel more like an elaborate prank played on the listener than a new group finding its sea legs: Album two, The Origin of the Feces, is essentially album one, Slow, Deep and Hard, re-recorded with new titles for the same songs and, for some reason, fake crowd noise edited in for a faux-live effect-complete with hecklers. In particular, it means shelling out for vinyl versions of the band’s first two thrash and hardcore-influenced records, which predate the full flower of Steele’s voice. These songs showcase keyboardist and producer Josh Silver’s ability to create colorful soundscapes that belie the band’s strict black, white, and green color palette.īut this is a box set, not a greatest-hits comp or even an a-la-carte reissue of the catalog, and that means putting up with the bad and the ugly along with the good. My current favorite: Life Is Killing Me’s “(We Were) Electrocute,” an ode to turning neighborhood heads side-by-side with an old flame. The latter element manifested not just in the Type O’s choice of covers (Neil Young’s “Cinnamon Girl,” Seals & Croft’s “Summer Breeze,” an honest-to-god Beatles medley) or in its nickname (“The Drab Four”), but in lush original compositions. ![]() The music itself displayed a similar duality, alternating between doom-laden dirges and swirling psychedelia. The song’s ferocity emerges from the band’s hulking exterior and Steele’s lyrical vulnerability, which sounds trapped inside it. (He died of an unrelated aortic aneurysm in 2010.) Two songs-the savage, hook-laden “Everyone I Love Is Dead” and the harrowing and bittersweet “Everything Dies”-tackle that pain by wondering if it’s worth going on without those he’s lost. ![]() It’s effectively a concept album about the death of people close to Steele, who by then was dealing with life-threatening addictions of his own. World Coming Down goes even further down this guilt-ridden road. He closes October Rust’s anthemic “Love You to Death” by plaintively asking the object of his affection “Am I good enough for you?”, clearly already believing the answer to be “no.” Steele shared vocal duties with his gifted guitarist Kenny Hickey, who handled the shouty bits over time, this allowed Steele to hone his voice into something not just creepy or sexy but actually romantic, even abject. Both songs showcase Steele’s distinctive, vampiric baritone, complete with theatrically rolled R’s and overemphasized consonants (“on her milk-white neck- kkh, the devil’s mark- k”). 1,” an affectionate send-up of a goth girl’s beauty regimen that launched the band into the public consciousness, via a striking black-and-white video that received heavy Beavis and Butthead rotation. For the 30th anniversary of Slow, Deep and Hard, Roadrunner Records in conjunction with Run Out Groove, is reissuing the debut on vinyl in all it’s remastered glory.The best-known of these kick off 1993’s Bloody Kisses: “Christian Woman” explores its subject’s sublimation of sexuality into the crucified body of Christ with all the subtlety of “Ken Russell’s The Devils: The Musical.” It continues with “Black No. According to guitarist Kenny Hickey, Steele based a riff of “Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 x 10 – 8 cm – 3 gm – 1 sec – 2” (later known as “Gravity”) from the theme song of the 1964 American sitcom The Munsters. In keeping with the band’s notable humour, the album’s cover artwork is a blurred image of sexual penetration. Slow, Deep and Hard is a semi-autobiographical album with heavy amounts of black humour, based on a failed relationship in which the vocalist/bass guitarist Peter Steele was involved. ![]() The album has a rawness that was prominent in Peter Steele’s previous band, Carnivore, but it incorporates elements that became standard for Type O Negative, merging styles including doom metal, gothic rock, new wave and industrial music. The album, originally titled None More Negative and released in 1990 under the group’s former name Repulsion, launched the band’s career. Slow, Deep and Hard is their debut studio album, released in 1991 on Roadrunner Records. Type O Negative is an American goth-metal band formed in Brooklyn in 1989 by Peter Steele (lead vocals, bass), Kenny Hickey (guitar, backing vocals), Josh Silver (keyboards, backing vocals), and Sal Abruscato (drums, percussions), who was later replaced by Johnny Kelly. ![]()
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