Type O Negative - Slow Deep & Hard
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Free Music Review: good album
Hit: 5 Stars
This album is one of my favorites . the reason i like it is because its RAW and not overproduced . I also like WCD and BLoody kisses . if u like this album check out carnivore (peter steeles hardcore band in the late 80s
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Free Music Review: Take your valium
Hit: 5 Stars
Testosterone at its finest. A perfect example of heavy music from the Rush Limbaugh of metal; Peter Steele.Free Music Review: Type O Negative: Slow, Deep, & Hard
Hit: 5 Stars
If you are a Type O Negative, you NEED to purchase this album! It's awesome!!!!!!Free Music Review: The best breakup song ever, and some other good stuff too
Hit: 4 Stars
Type O Negative may be known now as an atmospheric doom metal outfit, but before going Gothic Peter Steele and company released this classic thrash album that smacked more of Peter's old band Carnivore than the band that recorded "Bloody Kisses" and "October Rust." Filled with fist-pumping, head-banging anthems for the angry and disaffected, "Slow, Deep and Hard" is surely one of metal's most unfairly neglected albums. It may not have the epic ambience of some of the band's later work, but "Slow, Deep and Hard" more than compensates with plenty of aggression and tongue-in-cheek (at least I think it's tongue-in-cheek) humor.
While bands like Metallica had made epic songs a staple of metal during the '80's, "Slow, Deep and Hard" boasts tracks so long it almost makes "Master of Puppets" look like a Ramones album. Angry, visceral thrash metal shares space with gloomy, atmospheric passages, pushing many of the songs on the album near or past the ten-minute mark. In its more intense moments, "Slow, Deep and Hard" is almost [very descriptive]: you'll be too busy banging your head and laughing at Peter's hilariously over-the-top lyrics to worry too much about little things like musicianship or artistic merit. During slower periods, Peter sounds suprisingly vulnerable and melancholic, with his doomy bass singing foreshadowing the direction Type O would take on "Bloody Kisses" and subsequent albums.
The album starts off in the best way possible with what may well be the best song in history, the twelve-plus-minute epic "unsuccessfully coping with the natural beauty of infidelity." A profanity-laced rant written from the point of view of a guy who knows his girlfriend's cheating on him, the song is a masterpiece of anger and depression that often makes me wonder whether I should laugh or cry. I can't go in depth about the lyrics, but when Peter starts yelling angry (and colorful) words in that unmistakable cookie-monster growl of his, it's pretty damn hard not to shout along with him. Lowbrow? Maybe. Fun? Definitely.
Although the album (in my opinion) reaches its high water mark on track one, there's some more great stuff on here. "unsuccessfully coping with the natural beauty of infidelity" is bookended by another classic, the closing "gravitational constant," an uber-depressing dirge from the point of view of someone about to commit suicide. "der untermensch" is a laugh-out-loud polemic against "wastes of life" that live off the government rather than get jobs (I can forgive the song's blatant racial overtones since the lyrics aren't directed at *all* black people, merely the parasitic ones). "xero tolerance" is a frightening revenge fantasy capped off by Peter's indelible roar of "I'll kill you tonight!" The only songs here that don't really work are "glass of walls of limbo (dance mix)" and "the misinterpretation of silence and its disastrous consequences," two interludes that don't really add much to the album. These two tracks aren't exactly terrible, but putting them back to back was a bad idea, and at more than six minutes "glass walls of limbo" is way too long. Oh well. At an average length of about ten minutes, the other five tracks give you more than your money's worth. "Slow, Deep and Hard" gets my hearty recommendation for metal fans, especially those who don't take themselves too seriously.
Free Music Review: A Unique Album to Say the Least
Hit: 4 Stars
This is probably the oddest album I have ever purchased. First of all, I must say that I bought this album on pure faith in TON (Basically, I didn't listen to it before I bought it). When I got home from the mall and popped it into my CD player I was very surprised and disappointed. At that point I would have said that the album was terrible. The album has many things that count against it. For one thing, the sound quality is not very good. Most of the vocals on the album consist of Peter screaming. In addition to this, the album was recorded at a very low sould level. Also, track #6 is nothing more than a minute of silence (as suggested by the title). I suppose this doesn't matter considering that the album is just a little less than an hour long. As I'm writing this review, I must admit that this album is pure TON genius. In order to enjoy this album it is necesary to crank up the volume as much as possible. On the first listen, I missed some of the best aspects of the album. The best parts of the album are definately the gothic chants which are found throughout the album. My favorite chant is the one called "requiem for a souless man" at the end of "Gravitational Constant". The best song on the album is probably "Prelude to Agony". It starts with a wonderfully agonizing bass instrumental by Peter called "the truth". The chant in between "god love fire woman death" and "jackhammerape" is just plain beautiful. As I actually listen to the lyrics that Peter screams, I realize just how clever and poetic he really is. Overall, the lyrics are great, the chants are great, and the gothic mood is awesome. I wish I could give this album a five but the bad sound quality and the screaming detract from the album a little. I must say that I have never in my life heard such a unique and inventive album. This is a must for music lovers. This album has a very human sound to it.