Band: Type O Negative
Album: October Rust
Personal Rating: 10
Tracks:
01 - Bad Ground
02 -
03 - Love You To Death
04 - Be My Druidess
05 - Green Man
06 - Red Water (Christmas Mourning)
07 - My Girlfriend's Girlfriend
08 - Die With Me
09 - Burnt Flowers Fallen
10 - In Praise OF Bacchus
11 - Cinnamon Girl
12 - The Glorious Liberation Of The People's
Technocratic Republic Of Vinnland By The
Combined Forces Of The United Territories Of
Europa
13 - Wolf Moon (Including Zoanthropic Paranoia)
14 - Haunted
15 -
Review:
This band first hooked me in 1992 with their "Origin Of The Feces" joke album, and i figured that these guys had pretty much figured out the sound they wanted. Than "Bloody Kisses" came out and forced myself (and a few others) to re-think the entire Type O concept. The change was both drastic and a natural progression, as the band seemed to discover such things as ambience and subtlety which brought a whole new dimension to the TON sound. "October Rust" is no exception. With this release, Pete Steele and co. have crafted a beautifully haunting masterpiece of love, despair, and loss that shakes the foundations with it's dropped C tuning and bass heavy riffing. The disc starts out obnixiously enough with 30 seconds or so of line hum that breaks into a spoken intro by the band. "Love You To Death" starts the album off and just when you think it could not get any better...it does. Tracks like "Green Man", "Die With Me", and "Wolf Moon" pick up where "Bloody Kisses" left off and leave the listener with a truly Zen experiance. A rewarding listen with maximum replayability, "October Rust" comes highly recommended for those with a craving for gothic drama, and the onset of dusk.
JC
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