Gone are the interlude tracks and these are 10 of the best songs that the Drab Four had ever recorded.Įach is distinctive and crushing with ample dark and brooding atmosphere with Hickey’s riffs buoying Steele’s vocals and overly rolled “R’s,” Josh Silver’s arrangements and Kelly’s simple, yet essential drumming. On what would be Type O Negative’s final album before Peter Steele’s untimely death, they show no signs of rust from their previous album four years earlier, with long form compositions like “Tripping A Blind Man,” the herculean riffs on “The Profit of Doom” and the massive “These Three Things” among the other tracks. World Coming Down lacks some of the cohesiveness of the band’s absolute best albums and while great in its own right, falls just short of the other four. The album is punctuated by tracks with different levels of bodily failures, resulting in what would appear to be a painful death after “Lung.” Their medley of Beatles covers is a wonderfully heavy rendition of songs played with a new sense of purpose. The Sabbathian sections that the band play through capture the band at its sonic height, coupled with Steele’s sardonic wit with lyrics like “we are all cremated equally” help them stand apart from their sonic contemporaries. On “Pyretta Blaze” an excellent groove takes hold, played at a snail’s pace with Josh Silver’s keyboard work prominently coming through between Hickey’s riffs and Johnny Kelly’s work behind the kit. On Type O Negative’s fifth album, the band’s sound is a gothic metal titan with plenty of gloom on tracks like “Everyone I Love Is Dead,” “World Coming Down” and “Everything Dies.” The theme here is clearly the idea of death, seeing as this was an album written after a multitude of mortality in Steele’s immediate family.
I don’t want to make it feel as though I’m ragging on the band’s first two releases, its just that there is a clear line of demarcation in their discography it’s the first two albums and then everything else. Kenny Hickey’s guitar tone is more fully executed and noticeable to fans who have heard some of the band’s other work beyond this point. The humor on The Origin Of The Feces comes from more than Steele belittling the “paid” crowd, it also comes in the form of fake bomb threats and the album’s original cover is a shot of his sphincter, thus giving the album it’s title. Prior songs were tightened up and seen here as “I Know You’re Fucking Someone Else,” “Gravity,” “Pain” and “Kill You Tonight,” with enough variation and cleaned up for a better look into what each track would sound like when fully realized.
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On the band’s second album, they attempted to capture a “live” concert complete with hecklers and Steele’s stage banter on full display. The Origin Of The Feces (Not Live At Brighton Beach) (1992) Slow Deep & Hard album has its moments, but really is just a collection of things the band would eventually do better on subsequent releases. Throwaway jokes, which were a part of the band’s identity through World Coming Down are included here including a long-lasting repeated use of the sounds of broken glass on “Glass Walls of Limbo ” and a minute of silence (“The Misinterpretation of Silence and Its Disastrous Consequences”). The long form songs that Type O would become famous for playing existed in a more primordial version such as “Unsuccessfully Coping With the Natural Beauty of Infidelity” and “Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 x 10⁻⁸ cm⁻³ gm⁻¹ sec⁻²” which took on other forms on the following album. On Type O Negative’s first full-length foray, the band was still heavily influenced by Steele’s former band Carnivore in terms of some of the lyrical content being more politically charged, which was part of the appeal of the former band’s Retaliation. Here is our ranking of the band’s albums. They used samples, strange sounds and in-jokes to move the albums along into tremendous tracks that they would masterfully develop into titanic tomes of somber and livid lyrics, often reflecting the inner madness of their frontman. They were famous for their humor, gothic song structures and cover songs that they made undoubtedly their own. The band also featured guitarist Kenny Hickey, keyboardist Josh Silver and drummer Johnny Kelly for most of their colossal albeit short run of seven albums from 1991 to 2007, before the loss that ended the band in 2010.
Type O Negative were a gothic doom metal band with major prominence in the early days of the ‘90s through most of the ‘00s before the passing of lead singer and vocalist Peter Steele.
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