Type O Negative - Slow, Deep And Hard (1991) [Roadrunner Remaster 2009]

An Impressive Debut. This is a masterwork that truly shows the anger and technicality that came from Carnivore, mixed with the angst and atmosphere that evolved into what we now know and love as Type O Negative…
Originally titled None More Negative, the album is considered the catapult to launching the band's career (which later skyrocketed with Bloody Kisses and October Rust). While the album definitely has a rawness that was prominent on Peter Steele's previous band Carnivore, it does incorporate elements that would become standard for Type O Negative. Therefore, fans are divided on this album. Either way, it remains a merging of styles including doom metal, thrash metal, gothic rock, and industrial music. Piero Scaruffi, a music historian, has called the album the best heavy metal album of all time, giving it 9/10.

Roadrunner Records is proud to present the newly remastered edition of Type O Negative's classic debut album, Slow, Deep & Hard. This reissued comes packaged in a jewel case, wrapped in an O-card featuring original album art. The CD features the entire album, painstakingly remastered from start to finish. The expanded booklet contains all the original content, plus a behind-the-scenes viewpoint of not only making the record, but the international chaos that followed its release, as told by Josh Silver and Kenny Hickey.

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Type O Negative's melodramatic goth rock style encompasses long songs built on simple riffs, theatrical shouting vocals, churchy-sounding organ and vocal-harmony passages, and the odd mechanical noise. Vocalist Pete Steele, who wrote all the songs, shows an obnoxious sense of humor, but directs it at himself and the band as much as everyone else he doesn't like. There are some very un-PC sentiments on several topics, chiefly breakups, which, although comically dramatic, are quite suitable for angry moping.

~ Steve Huey, all media guide

Tracklist:

01. Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity
02. Der Untermensch
03. Xero Tolerance
04. Prelude To Agony
05. Glass Walls Of Limbo (Dance mix)
06. The Misinterpretation Of Silence And Its Disastrous Consequences
07. Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 x 10-8 cm-3 gm-1 sec-2
08. Hey Pete (Pete's Ego Trip version) [Bonus track]

All lyrics and music by Petrus Ratajczyk except "8" by Billy Roberts (an adaptation of "Hey Joe")


Produced by Type O Negative. Engineered by Mike Marciano
Recorded and Mixed at Systems Two, Brooklyn, New York.
Mastered by Michael Sarsfield at Frankford/Wayne, New York.
Copyrights: all songs - 1991, except "8" - 2000.
Produced for reissue by Monte Conner. Remastered in December 2007 by George Marino at Sterling Sound, NYC.

• Peter Steele – lead vocals, bass guitar
• Kenny Hickey – lead and rhythm guitars
• Josh Silver – keyboard, synthesizer, effects
• Sal Abruscato – drums, percussion
• The Bensonhoist Lesbian Choir (which is actually just the band itself on backing vocals)

Originally Released: June 1991
Re-Release Date: March 24, 2009
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Label: Roadrunner Records
Catalog No.: RR 7944-2