![]() Peter Steele’s voice is at it’s most powerful, soaring out of his diaphragm with all his baritone bravado.Ĭonceptually, Type O Negative took a few nice turns on World Coming Down. The listener is dragged through addiction and death in the most beautiful of fashions. The songs are longer, between about six and twelve minutes. World Coming Down is a goth album to the max, with some doom influences spiced in for effect. Gone, at least for this album, are the days of bouncing between more punk-laden styles and more goth styles. Potentially their most complete album, both thematically and musically. On a happier note, Peter Steele and Type O Negative left behind some magical work highlighted by World Coming Down. Ironically, that song predicted nearly the exact manner in which he would eventually pass away. In particular, one of the interlude tracks, “Sinus,” which features a rapidly increasing heart rate after a line of cocaine, was on the list of no-no’s for Peter. In fact, Peter Steele, despite producing and writing World Coming Down was unable to listen to some of the tracks because of their foreboding quality of his own demise. Which makes his work on World Coming Down that much more creepy. Peter Steele technically died of an aortic aneurysm, essentially his heart exploded. World Coming Down, was forced into perspective when Peter Steele tragically passed away Apand, with him, Type O Negative died. Ever since then, World Coming Down has been my go to album for all things Type O Negative. But, as I got older, and life became more realistic, the album took hold. Thus, World Coming Down, with its themes of drug addiction, alcohol addiction, nicotine addiction, death of loved ones and death of the self seemed like, well, a bit of a bummer. Further, tracks like “My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend” sent my teenage mind on fire at the mere possibilities. Thus, when Peter Steele sang about menstrual cunnilingus during a full moon and the potential to become a werewolf after performing such an act, my teenage mind was enthralled. I was full of spunk, curiosity and fervor for the female species in general. Drastically.įor me, at least at age 18, it was near impossible to top the sexual energy and orgy-like themes on Type O’s 1996 release October Rust. Sorry.”) I wasn’t ready to face the death of my loved ones, yet alone face my own death. And she got the goods, and she got that ass, I got to look. ![]() I was on a college campus that had many more women than men enrolled and I was pretty busy gawking at young women (as Kanye West says “y’all pop the trunk, I pop the hood. Sure, I had just had yet another heart operation but, the world was my oyster. My mind was not in the right place to accept the concepts that Peter Steele was preaching. I missed out on the intricacies of the record. In fact, at the tender age of 18, transitioning from high school to college, I had other things on my mind. ![]() World Coming Down may not have been my favorite Type O Negative album when it was released in 1999. So today, for our retrospective, we look back at Type O Negative’s absolutely dark and beautiful album World Coming Down. Especially as their sound progressed over time becoming more introspective and mournful and less tongue-in-cheek. Many of their albums altered my perception of reality. Maybe an album can, under the right circumstances, alter our perception of reality and allow us to find out who we really are. Maybe a few of them even changed our lives, if that is actually possible. We all have bands that have influenced how we hear music.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |