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Type O Negative Dead Again By Mick Stingley, Contributor Wednesday, March 5, 2008 @ 10:32 PM
In the meantime, the fine folk at SPV have seen fit to reissue the last album of newly recorded material from Type O Negative, 2007's Dead Again (probably to buy some time until the apocalypse). However, this time they've added a DVD and present it in a digipack, which is, shockingly, colored red.
Since its inception Type O Negative has long been associated with the color green; so that they've elected to go with another primary color is probably enough of a publicity stunt to generate some long threads among goth/metal Suicide Girls on the band's fan-sites and message boards and maintain interest in the band while they go on hiatus. Whatever meaning is ascribed to it (Adultery? Socialism? Some art director was bored shitless with the green thing?), it is still sonically and ineffaceably Type O Negative.
It's almost as if the band has returned to the philosophy which brought them to international prominence in the first place: no more trifling with facile editing to get into heavy rotation, this is how the song goes and fuck you if you don't like it. (It should be noted that "Halloween In Heaven," an ode to dead rock stars, features the first ever guest female vocal on a Type O record; Tara Van Flower of Lycia adds some honey to render this otherwise dark punky rocker mellisonant.)
And while the music stands wholly on its own, the bonus here is of course the addition of the DVD. With the two videos ("Profits of Doom," "September Sun") and some poignant (albeit too brief) interview footage, one of the highlights is a walking tour of Coney Island with Josh Silver. Since Silver is so often in the background, it's nice to see him step out a little; he's definitely a funny guy and the viewer gets a chance to experience some of his dry, Brooklyn humor; though again, almost too briefly. It's almost frustrating in that context as a full walking tour of Brooklyn, (or at the very least Bay Ridge, Marine Park, Bensonhurst and Gravesend) would not only be hilarious but informative (maybe for the next DVD when the world ends, he can point out to everyone what they missed).
The DVD also offers a handful of tunes shot at last summer's Wacken Open Air Festival: it's beautifully shot and almost makes the band seem a bit glamorous, if that's possible.
Overall, it looks like there was a nice production budget for the DVD and re-release; and as the youngest of the band members finally joins the rest in entering his fourth decade, it's nice to see that Type O Negative has a lot of life left in them. 60 is the new 40 and don't they know it.
Too bad the world is going to end before we'll ever get to hear, "The Unbearable Lightness Of Peeing," "More Songs About Blood & Fire" or "Still Lazy After All These Years"...(although singer Steele might argue this as he sings curiously, on "Profits of Doom," about the end of the world in April 2029. Hope springs eternal).
This release is also available as a three-record red vinyl LP box set.
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