Bloody Kisses

I'm surprised this has a low score (2.69 as of writing), I expected something challenging as a result of that but Type O Negative actually have an accessible sound. Maybe the users here just don't like goth?

Type O Negative the most well known and respected band in the world of goth metal so I expected Bloody Kisses to be a bit foreboding, but musically they aren't far away from the thrash and hardcore punk of the time, occasionally dipping into it which helps break up the darker parts of the album. They do also have a slight doom metal sound on top of the gothiness but it's only present in a few songs. These songs happen to be the highlights of the album and I'm guessing they develop it more on their later work, as I know the two albums after this are widely regarded as their best.

Lyrically was the biggest surprise for me, I expected Peter Steele to have a dark and misanthropic lyrical style, perhaps with a slight misogynistic streak, but the lyrics on this album are actually quite silly in a humourous way, and with a sarcastic bite to them. I shouldn't have expected such a serious album from the same guy who used his spread asshole as an album cover.

The most interesting song on the album is the title track, Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family) which builds up this dark gothy atmosphere of how the protagonist lost his love while using traditional goth romantic imagery ("pair of souls", "crimson pool", "endless night", you get the idea), and it doesn't use any of Steele's style of humor that I described above. However all of this about is just a metaphor to make it seem cooler, it's about his cat who died. Knowing the true meaning makes this song sound a bit ridiculous at first, but this is easily the saddest song on the record, and also shows a more vulnerable side to him once you cut past the facade. A fitting tribute to the cat.

Should it be on the main list: Yes. Type O Negative should have something on the list, there's no goth metal at all. I think October Rust is the more popular release but given TON's importance on the genre I have no issue putting Bloody Kisses on as well.

Top 3 songs: Christian Woman, Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All), Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)

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I really dislike the singer's vocals. And yet another album that is much longer than it needs to be. Sorry to the submitter, but I really couldn't stand this.

Good atmosphere, like the voice, nothing stood out as unique to me

Get your headphones ready folks... This one literally starts with people banging.... Wtf....

This is like goth rock mixed with shoegaze. Nothing mixed with shoegaze is good. Shoegaze ruins everything it touches. The instrumental portion of this album is solid, but the singing is abysmal. When he belts his vocals he sounds like Danzig it which is pretty solid. Most of the rest of the time he moans about love and death. These guys definately stroke themselves to reruns of Dracula. They are really leaning into the romantasized death theme.

Also, there was no need to ruin poor Seals & Crofts song Summer Breeze. What a horrid cover of a solid song.

Favourite songs: Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All), Christian Woman

Least favourite songs: Machine Screw, Fay Wray Come Out and Play, Dark Side of the Womb, Summer Breeze

2/5

Cheer the fuck up

Y'know those metal covers on YouTube where they cover a rock song and make it more "hardcore," and in turn miss the entire vibe of the song, and just in general aren't very good covers? Now I know where they got their ideas from. Only started to perk up at the end with the shoegaze-y final run of tracks, but those vocals are still too goofy to ever want to dig into this again.

Classic of goth albums. Good anthropology, but every song went a little too long for my taste

Definitely not what I was expecting given the album artwork. This is definitely on the softer side of hard rock, sort of a malleable clay, but that's not a bad thing at all, and it reminds of The Cult's goth adventures, but it also goes off on some esoteric tangents and even predicates the more harmonious nature of nu-metal.
Like the best scary rockers, Peter Steele also seems like he was a genuinely nice bloke and it sucks that he died so young.

Very goth and heavy i guess? Summer Breeze cover was....unexpected. Broadly, I think it falls prey to a really thin 90's metal mix that just doesn't seem to gel sonically.

Good goth rock record, wouldn’t have minded this on the main list.

Dark and gothic, but with real tunes in there as well. The cover of Summer Breeze felt weird at first, but then I liked it a lot.
A clear influence on lots of bands I love, but I (slightly) prefer those bands to this.
A better album than many in the book, but maybe too extreme for some listeners, and perhaps not the best introduction to heavy music.
One for folks who won't get scared!

Surprisingly melodic metal with flashes of grunge, and do I hear some shoegaze in there as well? A more compelling mixture of genres than much of the metal on the actual list.