TYPE O NEGATIVE

TYPE O NEGATIVE
LIFE IS KILLING ME (2003)
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Still proving that gothic metal need be mordant and humorless, New York's Type O returns with their sixth album of misanthropy, high drama and perversion with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Towering frontman Pete Steele is still the band’s focal point and his lyrics are more grotesquely hilarious than ever. Musically, Life is pretty accessible, eschewing much of the brutal, thrashy heaviness of Type O's early material. "(We Were) Electrocute" is a sleek, electro-pop homage to 1980s New Romanticism that showcases Josh Silver's funeral synth lines. The adrenaline-fuelled soft-rock rush of "I Like Goils" comes on like Andrew WK in a vampire cape. And "Less than Zero" finds Type O Negative revisiting one of their more surprising influences, the Beatles, as a sitar cuts through the eerie gloom.

1. Thir13teen
2. I Don't Wanna Be Me
3. Less Than Zero
4. Todd's Ship Gods (above All Things)
5. I Like Goils
6. A Dish Better Served Coldly
7. How Could She?
8. Life Is Killing Me
9. Nettie
10. (we Were) Electrocute
11. Iydkmigthtky (gimme That)
12. Angry Inch
13. Anesthesia
14. Drunk In Paris
15. The Dream Is Dead