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Sometimes the saddest goths make the loudest noise.

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    Combining the guitar-heavy murk of Black Sabbath with the banshee moan of Sisters of Mercy, Type O Negative are the definitive goth-metal band. Misery-junkie frontman Peter Steele delights in being a denizen of the dark — he even had his incisors shaved into fangs. But there's more to Dead Again than the gloom of goth and the doom of metal. "Tripping a Blind Man" segues from a hardcore verse into a Beatles-inspired chorus, "September Sun" is a baleful piano-laden ballad that turns distorted and ugly and "Hail and Farewell to Britain" is a brooding nine-minute epic that samples barking military men, war-planes and machine guns. Dead Again is convincing evidence that sometimes the saddest goths make the loudest noise.

  • They Say...

    Before Type O Negative, there was really no such thing as goth metal. And the group that hails from the bowels of Brooklyn (not Transylvania, as some assume) is still at it, on their sixth studio album overall -- and first for the SPV label -- 2007's Dead Again. Unbelievably heavy sludge riffs are still a main ingredient, as well as singer Pete Steele's ongoing "Kill me, I'm in agony" lyrics, and vocals that sometimes sound quite Bela Lugosi-esque. The album-opening title track may very well be the most melodic song the band has ever recorded, but the Type O we all know and love is lurking right around the bend, especially on such tracks as "The Profits of Doom" (the album's original working title), "She Burned Me Down," and "An Ode to Locksmiths," the latter of which contains a guitar riff so Tony Iommi-esque that it sounds straight off of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. With Dead Again, Type O Negative delivers another album of dark tales and even darker riffs, and will reassure morose metalheads that they can still count on Steele to spread the misery.

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