Track Listing
1. Machine Screw
2. Christian Woman (Corpus Christi)
3. Black No 1 (Little Miss Scare All)
4. Fay Wray Come To Play
5. Summer Breeze
6. Set Me On Fire
7. Dark Side Of The Womb
8. We Hate Everyone
9. Bloody Kisses (A Death In The Family)
10. Three OIF
11. Too Late/Frozen
12. Blood And Fire
13. Can't Lose You
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Producer: | Josh Silver, Peter Steele | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | ADA/Cinram Logistics | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | DDD |
Album Notes
Type O Negative includes: Josh Silver, Peter Steele.Additional personnel: Paul Bento (sitar, tambura). Recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, New York. Type O Negative has delivered either death-metal's first prog-rock concept album, or its "Good Vibrations"...or maybe both. Either way BLOODY KISSES is one of the most alluringly weird albums in the history of the genre--an hour-long ode to break-ups and suicide that mixes acoustic guitars and synthesizers with metallic power chords, and lush choral harmonies with a lead vocalist who sounds like he died sometime before the recording process began. That last bit is meant as a compliment; if you're going to attempt an eleven-minute suicide dirge like the title track, you better be either Leonard Cohen or dead, and Type O's Peter Steele has a bit of both in him.For most of BLOODY KISSES, though, Steele and crew come alive as pop studio experimentalists in a field dominated by anti-pop, anti-studio shredders. "Christian Woman" is a three-part epic that ebbs and flows with a slow metal groove, pretty background vocals, synthesized strings, and a morose lead voice that spells out a story of sex, death and Jesus. "Too Late: Frozen" places a bright pop chorus over chord changes that echo Bruce Springsteen's "Tunnel Of Love." There's a surf-y organ line buried in "Blood & Fire." The best pop joke of them all, if that's what it is, is a heavily psychedelic cover of Seals & Crofts' "Summer Breeze"; try listening to the song (which is done straight) while reading the lyric sheet (which is not).
Editorial Reviews
[T]he band specialised in deep, slow, sensual thrusts laced with black humour and the occasional slash of fired-up punk menace.
Kerrang
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