This is a social rant that still remains relevant in 2010. Steele rants like Henry Rollins did back in the day when he was still relevant to the lost Punk community.
#SLOW DEEP AND HARD TYPE O NEGATIVE FULL#
This is dank, full of dirge and remarkably accessible even now. The music is as dark and gloomy as anything the band has ever produced, but as you listen back on it now, contains many of the trademark psuedo-industrial metal sounds that propelled the band’s career. The song attacks those who cheat on welfare and drug dealers, containing such provocative lyrics as, “If you don’t pay taxes, you shouldn’t vote, so get in line and get back on the boat,” and “Spike in your arm, no money for food, yet there’s plenty of gas in your BMW.” Despite their meaning, the band met with tons of resistance and controversy in Europe which they later parodied on their “live” album The Origin of the Feces. We will miss you Pete.ĭer Untermensch-Titled after the term used by the Nazis for those they considered unworthy of reproducing. This remains a classic track and a personal favorite. The guitars are muddy and layered with sounds of Gloom, Metal, and Punk leanings. Steele, with his deep baritone delivers his lines with sarcasm and black humor. Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity-Probably one of TON’s most well-known and popular songs, this 12 minute opus examines the issue of cheating and the murderous rage it causes. Slow, Deep and Hard was remastered and released on March 24, 2009. Piero Scaruffi, a music historian, has called the album the best heavy metal album of all time, giving it 9/10. In keeping with the band’s notable humor, the cover of Slow, Deep and Hard is of a blurred out picture of sexual penetration. Slow, Deep and Hard is a semi-autobiographical album (with heavy amounts of black humor) based on a relationship vocalist/bassist Peter Steele was involved in. The album has a rawness that was prominent in Peter Steele‘s previous band Carnivore, but it incorporates elements that would become standard for Type O Negative, merging styles including doom metal, thrash metal, gothic rock, new wave and industrial music. The album, originally titled None More Negative, launched the band’s career (which would later skyrocket with Bloody Kisses and October Rust). Like so many artists, he battled a lot of personal demons over the years, including cocaine and alcohol abuse and stints in both jail and a mental institution, but kept on bouncing back and by all accounts was looking ahead to what would have been Type O Negative’s eighth full-length at the time of his death.Slow, Deep and Hard is Type O Negative‘s debut album, released in 1991 on Roadrunner Records. With his rich baritone voice, pitch-black sense of humour and imposing yet welcoming presence, Pete practically bled charisma both on and off the stage. Having come up through the Brooklyn hardcore scene and fronted one of the most hostile thrash bands of all time, the 6’6” raven-haired giant really made his name fronting the mighty Type O Negative, a band who never fit conveniently into any niche. There is no denying that Peter Steele – who succumbed to a heart attack on April 14, 2010, at the age of 48 – was a unique presence in metal.
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