Type O Negative - Life Is Killing Me
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Free Music Review: Type O Negative Is Killing Me
Hit: 5 Stars
For their sixth studio album, Type O Negative take their familiar goth metal sound and spice it up with punk influences (think of the Ramones if they were really, really depressed) and go for a more straight-ahead rockin' album. Another reviewer mentioned that this takes less patience than other albums before it, and it is true. Any Type O Negative fan will find this album strangely addictive from the start and easy to get into. So have they sold out? No way. They have just made possibly their most focused and most professional album to date, and it was all self-produced. All of the typical Type O Negative topics are covered here, from the self-loathing of "I Don't Wanna Be Me" (which bears a slight thrash influence) to the hilarious homophobia of "I Like Goils," the band is in top form. Peter Steele delivers the songs with the same haunting vocals and the always appreciated ironic statements. The true highlight would be "(We Were) Electrocute," which has the band reaching into ballad territory just a bit. It's rough, but gentle, catchy and haunting. I'm not quite sure what the song is about, but to me, it seems like a reflection on the band's time together. Other key tracks include "The Dream Is Dead" and "Less Than Zero." If you have been a longtime fan of Type O Negative (they've had my ear for almost 8 years now), there is no doubt you will be able to appreciate this album. Everything the band has accomplished and learned has culminated into this album. It stands just as strong as other Type O classics like "Bloody Kisses" and "October Rust." I highly suggest this CD to everyone interested, and if you are new to the band, this would be a great place to start.Free Music Review: The Beatles meet Black Sabbath!
Hit: 5 Stars
And being about the same age as Peter, Josh, Kenny & Johnny, I can totally appreciate the melding of the two. The love-of and influenced-by really shows up on this album, and the result is a pure winner... more "October Rust" in form and style, a bit of a departure from the funeral dirge of "World Coming Down", a little lighter perhaps, and more musically diverse (and therefore interesting). LIKM has everything TON fans have come to expect: the cover tune (Angry Inch), the politically incorrect tune (I Like Goils), the play on words and love gone wrong tunes (How Could She, A Dish Best Served Coldly), songs of self-loathing and disenchantment (I Don't Wanna Be Me, Life is Killing Me). Musically, TON is in top form here. As usual, Peter and Josh produced the album (can anyone imagine anyone else producing a TON album??), so it has the flavor we've come to expect. You know, the kind that can only be cooked up by the world's foremost Brooklyn NYC goth metal band? The only thing missing from this album is the goof intro track... these are dear to my heart, as one of my fondest memories was the afternoon I came home to find my husband cursing the new DVD/CD player because it wouldn't play CDs right... he'd grabbed "World Coming Down" off the TV cabinet and track 1 (Skip It) was giving him fits... I'm looking forward to seeing Type O Negative when they hit town in early August. Life is good again (even if it's killing Peter Steel).Free Music Review: Metal bliss...
Hit: 5 Stars
"If God were suddently condemned to live the life which he has inflicted upon men, he would kill himself."- Alexander Dumas {1802 - 1870}
And so the above quote sets the tone for the overall theme of this opus, which remains decidedly melancholy with a sharp bend towards compassion in a black-hearted sense, with said black heart surrounded in bloody thorns. The pulse-line leaps with life still, cursing from the cauldron of low-boiling type o negative type acid-blood in the black veins of these minstrels. Songs range from lost loves, depression, sorrowful memories, twisted passions and as always, dark erotica. Slow-grinding guitars, Cathedralesque keyboards, and Steele's brooding and echoing vocals of deeply-hewn resonance envelopes the compositions like sonic enfolding black leathern wings. The band have found their niche in this corner of Hell, a daemon-bestowed formula, employing it to a marvellous timeless enchantment, both evocative and sustaining.
Of particular mention, the introductory inclusion "Thir13teen", which is supposedly "pastime music from The Munsters television show" {note from CD booklet}; and Mr. Steele also credits Fred Gwynne for "cosmetic inspiration".
The music seems to float like a green transmutating fog, through a blackened forest underneath the cold glow of the moon. Dark Angel cantibles, sublime in beauty an strength.- blissfully haunting.
Free Music Review: FINALLY!!! 8 )
Hit: 5 Stars
The long wait is over...and it was worth it. From start to finish, the pleasure never wanes. As usual, Type O's music is such a wonderful mix of beautiful melody and kickass rock...it's funny as Hell, and it'll break your heart from one song to the next (sometimes in the SAME song!).
Production values are high (no speculation on the musicians), with more Beatles in the mix than Sabbath this time (yet still enough bottom to make it feel right).
If you're guessing I'm a little biased, you're damned skippy; HOWWWWWWEVER, I DO know good music when I hear it. You'll be hearing reviews out the Yang about this influence and that; just suffice to say that this is an album that any fan of the band must have. This may also be the most accessible TON CD ever, so if you have anyone you're trying to indoctrinate...
As I was telling a friend earlier this evening, Peter Steele's songs,playing (and that voice. Oh. My. God. That voice) ,Josh Silver's musicianship (excellent vocals as well. Hey, gotta give credit where it's due) and production, and Kenny Hickey and Johnny Kelly's fabulous talent (ah, Hell - Kenny has an awesome voice too. Why I bet even Johnny could sing if he tried.) combine to meet a huge portion of my musical needs on a pretty much daily basis.
Please buy this CD...they need the buck fifty.
Peace out.
theBEC
Free Music Review: A welcome return to form for the boys from Brooklyn
Hit: 5 Stars
"Life is Killing Me" is an album that was four years in the making, and is undoubtadly Type O Negative's best work since the classic "October Rust". Returning to their more melodic and catchy sound a la "Bloody Kisses" and "October Rust", "Life is Killing Me" almost abandons the epic dirges that have become such staples of the band, but in return we get Type O at their musical best, and "Life is Killing Me" is undoubtadly one of the band's best albums. The anthemic "I Don't Wanna Be Me" carries a punkish vibe throughout, while "I Like Goils" is a hilarious toungue-in-cheek take on lead singer Pete Steele's brushes with getting hit on by homosexuals. The title track is a fast paced fist pumping song that will make long time fans of the band stand up and salute. Other standout tracks include "Less Than Zero", "Tod's Ship Gods", "How Could She?", and the surprisingly touching and heart wrenching "Nettie" which tells about Pete's mother. Josh Silver's keyboard work is phenominal here, some of his best in quite some time, and the band as a whole sounds much more tighter than they did on the previous album "World Coming Down". All in all, "Life is Killing Me" is one of, if not the, best albums of the year.