The Type O Negative thread

[leatherface]

Just wanted to dedicate a thread to this band since I see many here are fans. Never saw them live but I remember being in a squat in Mannheim, Germany, 1995, (long story) and some skinheads (I was sharing a room with) were talking about this music festival they had been to. They described Peter Steele like he was a god, "this huge man drinking a bottle of wine onstage".  I am not sure what they found amazing about that but they liked it all anyway.

I since went on a TYPE O binge and that hasn't stopped. The last one great album I heard from them was 'World Coming Down', first track amazing. Rest in Peace Peter Steele.

What are your memories of this band live or your favorite albums

[blessed1]

October rust and bloody kisses will always have a special place for for me. I remember getting October Rust for my 11th birthday around the time it came out along with a trashy horror novel and spent the day listening to and reading the book.
I still have the cassette and novel to this day!

[Eoin McLove]

I only caught them once at the gig in the SFX in 97. Amazing show. I think they are a pretty consistent band on record too. Dead Again was one hell of an album to finish up on. I can only imagine what further greatness lay ahead if poor old Pete hadn't bit the dust.

[Carnage]

Bloody Kisses is the only one that stuck with me, it was one I'd go for walks around Dublin with on the trusty walkman. The comedy tracks wore thin pretty quickly but the rest makes up for it, as tongue in cheek as it is. The subsequent albums are all great but just never stuck with me, the only one I listen to occasionally is October Rust (and that got a trim too).

Slow, Deep And Hard and Origin are, appropriately, shite.

[leatherface]

'Slow, Deep and Hard' is an early album of theirs I have yet to listen to. Also missed out on Carnivore (Pete Steele and ?), one of those ubiquitous crossover bands from the 80s.

[Eoin McLove]

I've never checked out Slow, Deep and Hard or Origin of the Faeces. Haven't dived into Carnivore either.

[ochoill]

I've never checked out Slow, Deep and Hard or Origin of the Faeces.

You're missing out, they are absolutely excellent.  They're the ugliest of the bunch, NYHC and the oddest cruelest doom riffs absolutely glued together but in a fantastic way.

Big Type O fan here, one of my all time favourites.  They haven't a bad album, but a couple that don't hit the spot as much - Life Is Killing Me has a couple of dud tracks on it and Dead Again, though still great, doesn't drag me back like their earlier stuff.  October Rust, Bloody Kisses, and World Coming Down are almost untouchable, not a bad song on any of them, perfect in their atmosphere, each so different that it's hard to pin a favourite sometimes (but I usually say OR).

Never got to see them live unfortunately.  My brother was at that SFX 97 show and met Pete Steele on Grafton st beforehand, ended up having a coffee with him strangely.  Type O were a fixture in the house growing up, I remember hearing bits of BK and OR before I was properly getting into music.  When I was around 12 and going down the metal rabbit hole I dove back into both albums and ultimately WCD when it came out, and have been that obsessed since.  Both brothers are every bit as bad for them, fun auld house to rob CDs as a teenager.

Fuck it I might do the discography run of them starting today while I'm in work.  It'll be shorter than the Godflesh run at least.  Some excellent B Sides and covers throughout their career too that I might stick a playlist together of later.  And my favourite live DVD (possibly) - Symphony for the Devil.  The fucking sound, the set list, just a top class performance.

[Thanatos]

Carnivore are fucking brilliant. Both albums are well worth diving into. The Debut has a thrasher edge to it. The Second one; Retaliation has a more NYHC vibe to it (though with a heavy Black Sabbath influence), I read several times that Pete was really into Agnostic Front at the time of writing it - he even wrote a chunk of the lyrics for them on Cause for Alarm.

Slow deep and Hard and Origin are a long way from being shite! A little rougher around the edges, given that Slow... was intended to be the third Carnivore LP.  The Origin LP is a fake live album with rerecorded (better?) versions of tunes from the first album, and a backing track of a crowd hurling abuse at them.

[Kurt Cocaine]

Why isn't this thread on the Main Forum?

[Necro Red]

I was looking to pick up some Type 0 albums on vinyl, but can't find any for a decent price. I reckon they are due a reissue

[Carnage]

They're reissuing them at the moment, I think October Rust or World Coming Down is the most recent.

[leatherface]

Why isn't this thread on the Main Forum?

I posted it here last night by accident, couldn't change it. Anyways, it's here, so.

[Blizzard Beast]

Brilliant band that had their own haunting sound.
Check out this gig.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bu96DXjYDU&t=1555s

[Kurt Cocaine]

Why isn't this thread on the Main Forum?

I posted it here last night by accident, couldn't change it. Anyways, it's here, so.

Aha, gotcha...

[Slaughterday]

Slow Deep and Hard being called shite? Madness lads. Incredible album. Certainly more fitting as a Type O album rather than a Carnivore one though.