![]() ![]() "The Communists tried to shoot him, poison him, stab him, and I believe that he ultimately froze to death. "I also like the fact that they couldn't kill him," he continued. I don't have penis envy, but I guess that's kind of where I differ from him. And rumor has it, he had a really big dick. "What I like about Rasputin is the fact that he was a mad monk, a womanizer, a drunk, a drug addict, a glutton, but he was able to cure the Romanov boy and he was taken care of by the family. "Rasputin is one of my heroes," Steele enthused. In this business, you die a thousand deaths, and that's where the Rasputin imagery comes in - they say he couldn't be killed. ![]() ![]() I'm not saying Dead Again is a piece of genius, but it's appropriate. Not that we don't belong with Manowar - but even for us, that's a little much. "I didn't love that title," Silver told me at the time. The image on the album cover is a photo of the highly controversial mystic and con man Grigori Rasputin, who wielded considerable influence over the last czar of Russia in the early 1900s. And I'm really not ready for that."ĭead Again's original title was The Profit of Doom, which is also the name of the album's third track. It's true what they say about institutions - hospitals, jail - the last stop is the morgue. There's no rehabilitation going on in jail, either - it's just all the animals in the fuckin' zoo thrown together. I fucked up, and I don't want you to go through it. "I'm trying to learn from my mistakes, and I wrote that song hoping that our fans would get something out of it, because I feel it's better to learn from someone else's mistakes than your own. Steele said he wrote the song as a cautionary tale. And I feel like I'm killing myself every time I do it." The other stuff is pretty much a part of my past, but you get three or four months under your belt and then, you know, somebody breaks out a line or what-the-fuck-have-you, and it's like, 'OK, just one line.' Yeah, right. ![]() He went on to explain that the title track of Dead Again was about relapsing. I had to suffer the consequences, so that was a setback." Someone I was with for a while chose to be unfaithful, and I settled it like a Neanderthal. A 30-day sabbatical in a not-so-deluxe suite at Rikers Island. A stint in the psych ward at Kings County Hospital. (Prince William residents, call 690-4110.Video of TYPE O NEGATIVE - The Profit Of Doom (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)Īs he sipped red wine, he began telling me about his misery spree of the past few years. To hear a free Sound Bite from Type O Negative, call Post-Haste at 202/334-9000 and press 8122. Still, any band that ends its album with a medley of the Beatles' "Day Tripper," "If I Needed Someone" and "I Want You (She's So Heavy") is bucking to get evicted from goth-metal's mausoleum.Īppearing Tuesday at the 9:30 Club with Puya and Spirit Caravan. Keyboardist Josh Silver and Steele - who take credit, respectively, for producing and re-producing the album - pull many of their ideas from goth's frayed bag of tricks: "White Slavery" opens with funereal organ, and the title song features some Gregorian-like chant. Much of the album thuds and growls, but the refrain of "Pyretta Blaze" is genuinely catchy. When he announces that "Everyone I Love Is Dead," he's singing about actual members of his family, not the make-believe ghouls and victims that usually populate the genre.Īlmost as unexpected is the band's growing interest in melody. Perhaps that's because singer-bassist Peter Steele's celebrations of murder and suicide have been trumped by real-life mortality. It's still pretty chilly inside the crypt inhabited by Type O Negative, but the Brooklyn goth-metal band shows some unexpected warmth on "World Coming Down," its fourth studio album. ![]()
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