Type O Negative - World Coming Down
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Free Music Notes for World Coming Down
Free Music Review: Everything Dies
Hit: 5 Stars
Behind all the machismo and muscle headed bravado, there lies a sensitive, acutely aware soul in Pete Steele. Don't laugh. Just listen to this.Have you ever thought about death? Are you scared to die? Why do people you love die? Why don't people talk about it? All are considered here.
Type O has produced one of the darkest atmospheres ever created on record. This is not dark in the Spartan black metal sense. This is blacker, thicker darkness. It is something like sinking in a bottomless pool, the light gradually fading, and you are utterly helpless to save yourself. The darkness becomes all enveloping, and the instinct to save yourself is replaced by an anaesthetising, almost mildly euphoric dream like state. It is like being buried in a black velvet lined coffin, letting the blackness surround you, keep you warm, keep you safe.
Type O tried a more commercial sound with October Rust, and it didn't work. Apparently the record buying public who claim to be into dark, "Gothic" music prefer androgynous puppets and pyromaniacal Germans with scary apendages. Their loss. Darker than Manson, more dangerous than Rammstein, more introspective than Manic Street Preachers, more coherent than The Cure, it seems Type O are simply too damn depressing for the self-proclaimed depressed.
This is just so gloriously depressing it's... inspiring. Songs like "Everything Dies", "Everyone I Love Is Dead", and "World Coming Down" are played with so much feeling they have a greater impact than any death metal band blasting away for an entire album. The dirge like feel of these songs is built on with subtleties, like Gregorian chants, heavenly choirs, acoustic interludes, and excellent song dynamics. Pete Steele's incredible distinct bass sound rumbles beneath the dark beauty created above by the rest of the band. This is also his most accomplished vocal performance, ranging from a vampiric sensuality to a dejected moan.
There is none of the silliness of tracks like "My Girlfriend's Girlfriend". The only cheerful point of the entire album is a sinister rumble through a medley of Beatles tracks tacked on the end. Like other Type O Negative covers, it probably sits better on it's own than as part of an album.
This is essential listening for anyone interested in dynamics or atmosphere. Just put the razorblades well out of reach before you start.
Free Music Review: "World Coming Down"- Lean and Mean and Worthy Of Your Green.
Hit: 5 Stars
If Type O' Negative fans think the band's usual dry wit is absent from their fifth full length album, think again. The humor and sex, so prominantly featured on their last albums, is obviously toned down on "World Coming Down" but that doesn't mean it isn't there. The first track entitled "Skip It" is made to sound like a CD skipping so that the buyer thinks there is something wrong with his/her CD (the title of the track is also a suggestion). Even if this isn't your idea of a good joke, the noise only lasts eleven seconds ending with someone yelling "sucker!" It's almost a warning to the uninitiated to take the following 74 plus minutes of sound with a huge grain of salt. I won't say any more concerning the band's intent or whether they're genuinely solemn and gloomy, but "sucker" is right, because this band sounds like they want to punish their listeners for buying their album.The songs on WCD may tend to start out slow but the payoff is in the soaring choruses carried by Peter Steele's majestic voice. They bring you into their world of pain and loss with their hard edged monolithic ballads dealing with topics such as drug addiction (White Slavery), losing loved ones (Everyone I Love Is Dead, and Everything Dies) and necromancy (Creepy Green Light and All Hallows Eve) just to name a few.
The lineup includes the usual suspects found on their last album with Josh Silver adding that creepy green atmosphere (keyboard and sampling), Kenny Hickey crunching hard on guitar, Johnny Kelly pounding the hell out of the skins, and of course Peter Steele, singing lead and thumping that big thick bass of his.
Musically the album has a sublimely dark (favorite industry adjective) sound. For the usuall TON fan it's a welcome return after waiting for a new release from the band ever since 1997's "October Rust."
In conclusion: On this album sex takes a back seat, the lush romantic sound is less but the songwriting is tighter, the scary is scarier, and more people die. For all you visual learners out there, if "October Rust" was like being in a shadowy medieval forest set against a blood red autumn sunset, then "World Coming Down" is after the sun has faded from the sky and you are plunged into complete darkness.
Free Music Review: What exactly makes this rehashed?
Hit: 5 Stars
I own all the Type O albums and can't for the life of me tell what people mean when they say this CD is a rehash. This is very different from past Type O of any album. This is one of my favorite albums of all time. It's actually kind of funny how many 'fans' here don't understand this album.
First of all, I'd like to challenge anyone and everyone to find another album this sad that conveys emotion so well.
This CD was born from the kind of depression that has a very real, physical reason behind it. A reason that won't go away if you take enough anti-depressants. The simple sincerity this album possesses puts it above most other Type O in my mind. People complain about this album being boring. You couldn't do these songs fast... it wouldn't work. The whole point of this album is to be exactly how it is now, and if you don't understand that, too bad. Peter Steele apologized for this album because it didn't deliver what Type O fans wanted. This, in my mind, is perfectly ok.
"White Slavery" and "World Coming Down" are 2 of the most hopeless and depressing songs ever created. If you have reasons of your own for depression, I wouldn't reccomend listening to this. It actually drove me to the point of being suicidal once. On a different note, it is the most beautiful expression of depression that is possible. It's like all the sadness you've ever felt put into a CD case. The melodies on this CD are absolutely ingenius.
All the points on the CD it seems Peter meant to "make up" for the other tracks by being comic and happy or faster like Bloody Kisses/October Rust ended up being just as depressing as everything else, because it's clear that Peter Steele didn't have it in him to feel good at the time. Perhaps accidentally the more upbeat, less concerned with reality tracks like "Creepy Green Light" and "All Hollow's Eve" ended up being about death and loss as well; both of these songs deal with trying to bring your dead lover back.
I don't want Type O to make anymore albums like this, I wouldn't want anyone to feel the way they did when they made this. Although I don't think Life is Killing Me quite matches this, it's nice to see Peter recovering from things.
Free Music Review: Incredible! Absolute masterpeice!
Hit: 5 Stars
When I first heard that Pete decided to return to his "roots" when writing World Coming Down I was dissapointed. I wanted to hear more of the lush organic atmospheres from October Rust. That album has been in my CD player more than any other album since it's release. The texture of the production was immense, and probably the most beautiful album I own, so to hear that the sound was more "stripped down" made me quite upset. Well, I purchased World Coming Down yesterday and was completely blown away. This album has so much power, so much feeling. It is a perfect mix of every sound Type O has been. Yes, the keyboards are much less present, but it does not take anything at all away from this album. In my opinion, more keyboards would ruin the power that this album has. There is not one bad song on this album, every song is masterfully written and wonderfully emotional (especially Everything Dies and Creepy Green Light). The first time I listened to Everything Dies I almost started crying in my car.....that is how emotional this album is. The production is excellent. Petes vocals are much more clear this time around, the guitar and bass meld together perfectly as usual. But the drums....Unbeleivable! While there is nothing particularly flashy about Johnny's drum playing,the way the drums were processed on this album adds a whole new dimension. On a good car stereo, this sounds absolutley amazing. the keyboards, well...you make your own judgment about the lack thereof, but I beleive it was necessary. Although not competely like October Rust, many aspects of Rust are in there and I think die-hard Rust fans will enjoy it just as much if not more. This album hits EXPREMELY hard, and it is not for the weak at heart. A must buy for all Type O fans, and probably their best album yet.Free Music Review: Another Solid Type O Album...4.5 stars
Hit: 5 Stars
Type O Negative has been entertaining us for years now, since the birth of SLOW DEEP AND HARD which didn't yet showcase the vocal style that Peter Steele would perfect on BLOODY KISSES. WORLD COMING DOWN is Type O's fifth album release, and clocking in at 74 minutes, it's another classic Type O release, complete with brooding epics (the 11-minute title track), haunting love ballads Type O style ("Pyretta Blaze"), and creepy, enigmatic dirges of Halloween ("All Hallows Eve"). Type O gives you more than you could ask, and while not everyone will think this is a mind-blowing album, and certainly it does not change the style they have grasped, it's nonetheless solid all the way through.
Curiously, though, the shorter tracks like "Sinus" aren't really annoying, they're actually funny and creepy at the same time, helping to keep the pace of the album. "White Slavery" is darkly humorous and threatening, but the music is majestic, and in its eight minutes of time, it makes its curiously odd point. Vocalist/bassist Peter Steele, along with guitarist Kenny Hickey, keyboardist Josh Kelley, and drummer Johnny Kelly, don't address themes in all seriousness. However, they start to show signs of true feeling on tracks like the creeping "Everyone I Love Is Dead" and the aptly titled and haunting "Everything Dies". Both are strong Type O tracks, and even the Beatles-medley at the end of the album is light-hearted and quite fun. "Who Will Save The Sane" wins as the album's most humorous cut, but it's catchy rhythms only help to make it all the more memorable.
Type O Negative churn out another solid turn on WORLD COMING DOWN. The themes of the album are starting to get more realistic; the music is hard and edgy with some flashes of beauty; and Type O fans should remain so after hearing this well-rounded, hard-charging album.