The perspective of the desperate human condition. Synth melody line, and tries to frame the squalor of those desperate lives from Immediately apparent with the dissolution of cadences. This movement is the fresco of a social outcast, the fact that is It falls into another instrumental nightmare, whichīuilds into the second movement, Waste of Rumbling accumulation of electronic sounds that leads into the hardcore first More and more hysterical as the song progresses. The 1960s, complete with a choir, organ riffs, and guitar solos, all growing ItĬontains the same melody, but has an arrangement on par with the rave-ups of Shouted in a bestially), might have been something of a synth-pop hit. Someone Else, which, if it were sung in a human register (instead of being The acoustic guitar and electronics, which are set to a triumphant tone. The accompaniment has an appropriate feeling of apotheosis, in particular with Interruptus, which is simply sung by a man and a woman having an orgasm. Includes a brief introduction of speedmetal ( Anorganic Transmutogenesis), which then melts suddenly into an

Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity Which in turn consists of different movements. The disc is divided into six long compositions, each of Made by each of those distorted brains every day. On an epic significance in the epic struggle for survival (moral and material) Than “songs”) of Steele, trapped within the chaos of the riotous sounds, takes Perversions latent in every frustrated brain. Industrial music is in fact a museum of the underlying pathologies of criminal It is a terrible, and sometimes funeral, glimpse Member, Josh Silver, whose cunning work on keyboards added to much of theĪnd Hard (Roadrunner, 1991) is one of the masterpieces of heavy metal, andĮven rock music as a whole. Steele was already famous for is racist, fascist, and sexist lyrics,īut the band had their rapid success with the contributions of the fourth On bass, and one of the most creative bassists of heavy metal. With Kenny Hickey on guitar and Sal Abruscato on drums. Steele, the suicidal ex-cop, then formed Type O Negative (Roadrunner, 1986), with new guitarist Marc Piovanetti, the group disbanded. (Roadrunner, 1986) are a dazzling wall of post-apocalyptic society, a sort Infamy in New York in the mid-80s, when he sand in a thrash-metal band calledĬarnivore. Peter Steele (born Peter Ratajczyk) had already garnered The moral vacuum, for which for which paradise is simply and sadly theĮquivalent of Auschwitz, but without the inscription of “Arbeit Macht Frei.” The utter crueltyĪnd nihilism of their songs have few equals.

Tragic and hallucinatory pages in the history of rock music. In their little hellish complex, they carved some of the most Music of the ‘90s, their borders stretching from heavy metal, to industrial, to Type O Negative were one of the greatest beacons of rock (Translated from the original Italian text by Troy Sherman) The apocalypse subsided on Bloody Kisses (1993), a more sincere fresco of urban violence. They sounded like Wagnerian mini-symphonies composed in Dante's Inferno and supercharged with fear and despair. Each song was structured as a sequence of movements, each movement arranged in a different fashion, and the sequence leading to unrelenting suspense. Contrasts and juxtapositions blurred the difference between hell and paradise. Moral ambiguity translated into musical ambiguity, as anthemic choruses wavered like funereal dirges, epic riffs shrieked like agonizing spasms in the struggle for survival, and homicidal fantasies peaked with evil apotheosis. With vocalist Peter 'Steele' Ratajczyk convincingly impersonating a psychopath who uttered nihilist, racist, sexist, fascist invectives, keyboardist Josh Silver molding grandiose sonic architectures, and guitarist Kenny Hickey highlighting the turpitude of the stories with excoriating noises, the terrifying vision of Slow Deep And Hard (1991) acquired a metaphysical dimension besides and beyond its hyper-realistic overtones, bridging the philosophical themes of sex and death the way a black mass would do. Type O Negative achieved perhaps the most shocking fusion of metal, industrial and gothic languages. ( Copyright © 1999 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of use)

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