![]() The two great examples of that are the beginning of track 3 “Xero Tolerance” and the ending of track 4 “Prelude To Agony”. When synthesizer is not playing a melody harmonizing with the rest of the band it provides grim industrial sounds that sometimes make you feel like watching a horror movie. Keyboard and sample work in this is just plain smart and 100 % into place. And I think that is what makes “Slow, Deep and Hard” a really enjoyable listen. ![]() However, occasionally he goes down to the much-anticipated deep “vampirical” baritone singing and it is present in two forms: first being part of the lead vocal line and second being the church choir-stylized multi-tracked wordless singing (more on that later).īut it would not be a Type O record if it was not for the stuff above the traditional rock kit. It’s often the other way around.Īs mentioned above, most of the vocal work on the record is just Pete ranting, balancing on the edges of being mean and comical. You don’t have to sound smooth to be cool. It’s surely not as heavy as, say, Slayer but it gives a very honest feel to the music. Combined with the crunchy guitar sound of Kenny Hickey and the loud, pounding drums by Sal Abruscato it provides for an almost tribal phonation. Peter also played most of his bass parts with a fuzz pedal (not sure what exactly did he use, if someone knows that please correct), diminishing the natural “bass” sound in favor of it sounding like a really low-tuned guitar. The production is far from perfect and it’s meant to be – Peter’s vocals are mostly shouted and they have that weird echo that sounds like it was recorded in a huge workshop. Musically, the album is somewhat of a link between “Carnivore” and future “ToN” records: it combines the raw blood drenched malice of the first with gloomy sound landscapes of the latter. Boiled in anger, drowned in despair and stomped upon with a 100-ton rusty bulldozer. But this – this is how it all began.Īnd it began with pain. As we all know, that would later lead to their rise to prominence as world’s most famous gothic metal act and the establishment of the genre itself. There is no historical mentioning of who exactly proposed “Type O Negative” (turning the “sub-zero” signs to “o-negative” blood type sign) but the name was nevertheless settled.Īfter recording the demo that received some attention from Roadrunner (actually named “Roadracer Records” back in the day, those name-stories just never end), the band got a five-album contract. Ironically, that name was also already taken which left the guys slightly embarrassed, all of them having perfectly round zero signs with a “-“ inside tattooed on their bodies. That name was dropped not to be confused with an eponymous death-metal band and the four members picked up the moniker “Sub-Zero”. Steele recruited a couple of old friends along with some brand new faces and named the band “Repulsion”. And a bit more.īack in the late eighties a crossover-thrash act “Carnivore” had fallen apart, leaving its leader Peter Ratajczyk (also known as Peter Steele) legally bonded by a contract with now well-known Roadrunner Records and with no band to handle it. For the 30th anniversary of Slow, Deep and Hard, Roadrunner Records in conjunction with Run Out Groove, is reissuing the debut on vinyl.Review Summary: It's what it sounds like. According to guitarist Kenny Hickey, Steele based a riff of Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 × 10−8 cm−3 gm−1 sec−2 (later known as 'Gravity') from the theme song of the 1964 American sitcom The Munsters. In keeping with the band's notable humor, the album's cover artwork is a blurred image of sexual penetration. Slow, Deep and Hard is a semi-autobiographical album with heavy amounts of black humor, based on a failed relationship in which the vocalist/bass guitarist Peter Steele was involved. The album has a rawness that was prominent in Peter Steele's previous band, Carnivore, but it incorporates elements that became standard for Type O Negative, merging styles including doom metal, gothic rock, new wave and industrial music. Slow, Deep and Hard is the debut studio album of Type O Negative, released in 1991 on Roadrunner Records. " Type O Negative is an American goth-metal band formed in Brooklyn in 1989 by Peter Steele (lead vocals, bass), Kenny Hickey (guitar, backing vocals), Josh Silver (keyboards, backing vocals), and Sal Abruscato (drums, percussions), who was later replaced by Johnny Kelly. Cartridge Headshells / Alignment / Cleaners
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