Even the interludes "Sinus", "Liver" and "Lung" are haunting reminders of our mortality and inevitable impending death. "Everyone I Love Is Dead" and "Everything Dies" are heart wrenching, musical manifestations of pure hurt and depression. This is the album of a broken man, with songs almost exclusively focusing on death, addiction and depression. Pete suffered numerous deaths in his family prior to this album, and subsequently started using different substances to numb the pain. There is nothing remotely amusing about this album. It might even be worth delving into this album first, as it is a much more welcoming album and easier to digest upon initial hearing, while not compromising any of the band's classic sound. It is fair to say that October Rust is another fantastic album, and worthy follow-up to the previous album. "Love You To Death" is once again Type O Negative at their very best, offering a strong emotional journey for the listener, and songs like "Be My Druidess" and "In Praise Of Bacchus" might not be quite as deep or emotionally stirring, but are still absolute top quality songs. This manifested itself with October Rust being an overall more accessible album, with songs not quite reaching the length as they had been on the previous album, and the obvious commercial punt of "My Girlfriend's Girlfriend".
Three years later the pressure was on for the band to produce a worthy follower to their previous album. The album is deep and dark, archetypal Type O Negative and without any doubt a true classic of nineties metal. "Kill All The White People" and "We Hate Everyone" were both written with a mocking, joking tone in mind, and musically are the last nod towards the first album's slight hardcore edge. This was Type O Negative at their best, darkly romantic, very gothic and deeply haunting. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)" are still thought of as two of the band's classics, they are both long songs and put the band a mile away from the quality of the first album. And yes, arguably this is the band's best album. It was the first album Roadrunner Records ever released that went on to be certified Platinum in the United States. Bloody Kisses is always thought of as the definitive Type O Negative album, as it is the band's most commercially successful album. Not only was the production of album much better than the debut, but in songwriting and musical terms too. This was the album that changed everything for the band. It is worth a mention that The Origin Of The Feces is simply the band's debut album re-recorded in a basement with a fake audience put over the top as a result of money given to them to make a live album being spent on alcohol instead.
Not the most representative album, and one probably best left for later. Don't let that fool you though, "Xero Tolerance" is probably the harshest song on the album, but on the whole Slow, Deep And Hard is still a gothic-laced doom fest of dreary, but also angry and real songs from the naïve band at the time. Slow, crushing riffs with long songs, this is the rawest Type O Negative album and the album that has the most amount of harsh hardcore or thrash elements mixed in there. The band's debut album set the rough tone of things to come.
Certainly not everybody's cup of tea, but with Pete's distinctive, ultra low-pitched, booming voice at the helm - they were going to make you listen. Throughout, as their first album hinted, Type O Negative have delivered slow, deep and hard metal with a very depressing but at times humorous theme.
Forming in Brooklyn, New York, the band were soon signed by a growing Roadrunner Records and left to their own devices.
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Perhaps one of the most distinctive bands of the last two decades emerging in the early nineties when grunge was in full swing, the band bulldozed its way through drug use and personal tragedies to bring us six dire albums coated with themes of death, depression, and a hint of romance.
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