Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses


You like Gothic Metal, right? Who doesn't? Let's go back to probably the only platinum selling goth metal album, or at the very least the first. It's Type O Negative's 3rd album, Bloody Kisses. The Drab Four are known for three things. 1) there will never be another Peter Steele, 2) they were hilarious, and 3) the scandalous cover of Bloody Kisses. 

First, there shouldn't be another Peter Steele, the first one was more than you deserve. Last, the notion that two girls kissing on the cover in 1993 was scandalous is ridiculous compared to the Voodoo-U cover in 1994 (full on cartoon lesbian devil orgy). On to the humor.

Romance, sex, death, and a straight cover of Summer Breeze, because Seals really didn't like Peter's parody lyrics (reprinted in the liner notes). I think their humor is best summed up by the video for Black No. 1, where Kenny is playing doom riffs on a 12-string acoustic and Peter has an actual double bass hanging around his neck. There's sitar on this album too. Everyone pretty much agrees it's like Black Sabbath meets the Beatles and we're all dead, or undead, or about to die, or haven't noticed that we're dead and keep talking. Goth really just means aesthetic appreciation of the mysterious and dark, or occult. It comes from the dark side of post-punk like Bauhaus, Joy Division, The Cure, etc. But this is metal, so crank it up 7 notches. Loving you is like loving the dead, i guess it's too late to apologize now that you're dead, we're all just mopey vampires here, am i right? Why don't we put a psych-rock jam in the middle of this song? 

I have the second release where the band cut out the interludes and filler. It's still a whopping hour and seven minutes of sludgy doom so don't make plans for the rest of the evening. Or put it on while you're dying your hair black, can't go out with your roots showing....

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