1," "Christian Woman"), sarcastic hardcore screeds ("Kill All the White People," "We Hate Everyone"), bizarre noise interludes ("Fay Wray Come Out and Play," "Dark Side of the Womb," "3.0.I.F") and a cover of Seals & Crofts' "Summer Breeze" that somehow managed to be both lush and beefy.Īs the band spent two years touring with the likes of Mötley Crüe, the Exploited, Queensrÿche and Danzig, the album went gold on the strength of "Black No. Video of Type O Negative - Christian Woman īorn in Alphabet City's long-gone goth clubs, the 73-minute opus featured infectious doom-pop epics ("Black No. Originally released on August 17th, 1993, at the tail end of New York City Mayor David Dinkins' "gorgeous mosaic" of race riots and unemployment, Bloody Kissesoffered both a response to the controversy that had enveloped Type O's debut and an enhanced pop sensibility. Or at least as almost serious as Type O could ever be expected to get.Īs such, Steele (who was still working for the NYC Parks Department), guitarist Kenny Hickey, drummer Sal Abruscato and producer-keyboardist Josh Silver descended upon Systems Two in Brooklyn to record the album that would propel them to international rock stardom. It has been updated for this publishing.Īfter burying Brooklyn, New York, under the dense power-dirge cacophony of 1991's Slow, Deep and Hard, and then recording most of the LP over again as a fake live set for 1992's The Origin of the Feces - complete with a cover of a rock song popularized by Jimi Hendrix and a close-up of vocalist-bassist-mastermind Peter Steele's rotten sphincter for the album art - Type O Negative decided to get serious.
This story originally appeared in the 2009 "Top Shelf Edition" CD reissue of Bloody Kisses.
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