Occasionally, Kenny Hickey or Josh Silver provide backing vocals to further emphasize the deepness of Steele's voice. Peter Steele has an extremely deep voice and it adds a haunting quality to the songs. The riffs drive the song forward, but it's the additional flourishes that shine through. The bass and guitar parts mostly lumber their way through the slower songs in a doom-laden dirge but are there to provide main support in the faster songs. There is the occasional guitar solo and the riffs are plentiful, but they do not typically constitute the main melody of the song.
They take those influences and slow them down and twist them to form a sound that is unlike any other band.Īs for the instrumentation itself, the band has always relied quite a bit on the keyboards and vocals to drive the melodies home, in particular in the softer parts of the songs, of which there are many. The band's style is a form of gothic metal incorporating various influences such as Black Sabbath and The Beatles. Here, for example, we have the fifteen minute opener "I Know You're Fucking Someone Else", which lays the groundwork for the rest of the album. They have always been able to write long, multi-part epic songs and this has been their best musical quality. But that is okay, because the band plays just well enough to sound fine playing the style of music they play. Type O Negative will never be mistaken for an incredibly musically talented act. The musicianship is tight and is held together well despite the often changing tempos. The first seven tracks are the fake concert and then the band adds in a very interesting cover of the Black Sabbath classic "Paranoid" for the final track. After a few seconds of silence, they began playing again.īeyond the insanity of the fake crowd, the music is very impressive and it does sound as if they are playing live. At about the midway point, the band claimed it had to stop playing because there was a bomb threat in the concert hall. No, Type O Negative added in chants of "You Suck!" and improvised a fight between Steele and the fans with Steele yelling "You suck too" at one point in the album and then making fun of the crowd because he's getting paid to play and the crowd had to pay to get in. It would be too easy to simply add in crowd noise. Realizing they needed to fulfill their contractual obligations, the band simply re-recorded their debut album Slow Deep and Hard, added a couple of songs and retitled some of the other songs and then added fake crowd noise.īut they did not stop there. However, the band allegedly took the money they were supposed to spend on producing the live album on cheap vodka instead. I say supposed to be because the band's label Roadrunner had it written in the contract that Type O Negative was to record a live album.
Now, the craziest part about this album is that it is supposed to be a live album. We do not need to really see Peter Steele's anus, thank you very much.
Thankfully, people were angry and the cover was censored eventually. This is allegedly a picture of vocalist Peter Steele's anus. They have given us some strange liner notes at times, but this album really is the go-to point if you want to tell someone how weird this band is.
Nowhere is this more obvious than on this album. Type O Negative has always had a strange and twisted sense of humor. This is one of the most interesting, funniest albums I have heard.
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