5/18/2023 0 Comments Type o negative world coming downAdam Wasylyk of Chronicles of Chaos gave it a 10 out of 10, saying “An album that won’t be ignored, it’s my favorite album of 1999. AllMusic critic Steve Huey gave it 4 out of 5 stars. World Coming Down received mostly positive reviews upon release. At the end of the album is a cover song of Day Tripper which is a medley of three Beatles songs. Each of these songs is intended to suggest the possibilities of deaths the band members may have suffered at the time. The album contains three soundscape tracks: Sinus, Liver and Lung, which are named after internal organs, as segues between songs. “Who Will Save the Sane?” deals with mental illness and psychiatry. Two other songs, “Everyone I Love Is Dead,” and “Everything Dies”, touch on the difficulties of watching family members and loved ones pass away. The track “White Slavery” deals with cocaine addiction. For the debut of this album on vinyl, “Skip It” has been edited to sound like the listener’s record is skipping on a turntable. The album when issued on CD leads off with a “joke intro”: in this case, “Skip It”, 11 seconds of staccato band noise meant to sound as if the listener’s CD player is skipping. It was their first album to reach the Top 40 on the Billboard 200 chart. World Coming Down is their fifth studio album and is considered to be the darkest of the band’s releases, having been written after a series of deaths in Steele’s family. We know what we are, we know that we are four assholes and we just carry on that way and there is really nothing to fear, so if that’s your philosophy, worry not.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. “We’re still infantile, so I don’t think we’re growing up - maybe a little maturity in fleeting moments. Strangely, Josh doesn’t see any real change between Type O Negative then and now. Unlike most bands, were not going to tell you that we’re going to sell ten million albums, were just going to tell you how we feel and suffer the consequences.” Type O have always suffered for their art, being called Nazis (Josh is, incidentally, Jewish), women haters, being boycotted, picketed and tormented throughout their distraught beginnings and thriving despite it. “I think World… is the natural progression from October Rust, each album seems to be a reflection of where the band is mentally at that point and time, and this album is a very dark album because we’re in a bad mental state at this point in time. “I think the material on World Coming Down lends itself to a really dark feeling.” While some are hailing this album as a return of sorts, and the album that should have succeeded Bloody Kisses, Josh’s opinion is that of a different sort. Long time fans that were disenchanted with Type O’s continuing evolution from a more hardcore/sludge metal act, to a more gothic/sensuous unit will probably rejoice at the downtuned gloom here, while converts from Bloody Kisses (1993), and the more romantic October Rust (1996), may not be prepared for the negativity Type O are capable of creating. Type O Negative’s new album, World Coming Down, may take many by surprise.
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