When a more romantic, pop oriented mood strikes me, I go for ‘the rust.’ When I feel like the world is an urban sprawl of filth and piss, WCD is it. So I want to be crystal clear on one thing, I could flip a coin and pick October Rust or World Coming Down as my favorite release from Type O Negative. And obviously, their placement is indication of ranking from top to bottom. As it stands today, few bands can imitate their sonic brand well, but only one sounds like Type O but don’t take my word for it…Lets begin. They managed to create a very love them or hate them sound that polarized listeners. With genuine psychosis touching every bit of the self-proclaimed ‘drab fours’ pop laden Sabbath worship, front man Peter Steele and his Brooklyn crew created some of the best depressing doom to ever get put to wax. Why Type O? They’re not really relevant to what’s going on in the modern music scene, but to yours truly, they are a band like no other. So I had to think: ‘who else do I really want to dig into and talk about?, who else dredges up those metallic memories so deep that their discography causes confliction?’ Then, like a bolt of lightning striking that fabled clock tower in Back To the Future, it came to me: Type O Negative.
After I had the pleasure of writing the first run of Into the Grave, I got the chance to do it again for this month. So, here we are again, looming into February/March of 2019 already.
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