Type of Negative - October Rust
I gave Type O Negative a try before, and just didnt really like them. Some of their stuff was okay, but I never gave them more than a few spins. The reason that I NEVER sell any of my old cds, is because as my life changes as life tends to do, sometimes I'll break out an old CD of mine that I never liked and suddenly discover gold.
October Rust is that bit of gold, sitting in my music collection for years gathering dust. Didnt even like it when I first heard it, now I listen to it at least twice a day. It's not all good, there's high points (be my druidess) and low points (burnt flowers fallen) on the cd and definitely some filler, but songs like
I Love You to Death and
My Girlfriends Girlfriend,
Wolf Moon are solid gothic rock/metal tunes. Even some great doom metal w/
Red Water and
Haunted. I really like how, on a lot of their stuff you think you have the song figured out, then about halfway thru it changes just enough to give you some new depth to chew on the next time you hear it. They really tune the guitars down low and doomy too, genrally good keyboard accompanying, and the solos are in great contrast - generally high and tragic. Good stuff. Peter breathes a little too much in some of the stuff, and he definitely tries to project the sex symbol thing quite a bit, but that's kinda their schtick - sex and death.
Really good CD, I'm glad that I dug it out and gave it another try.