Deliberately evoked on the joke intro track "Skip It" from World Coming Down, which is designed to sound like a CD skipping.From "Be My Druidess": "I'll do anything to make you come.".From "Love You to Death": "Am I good enough for you?".1," the chorus and " Loving you was like. From "Christian Woman:" " Jesus Christ looks like me.".Lampshaded with The Origin of the Feces, a studio performance edited to sound like a terrible concert, which had a sticker on the front reading "NOT Live at Brighton Beach.".Blatant Lies: Johnny Kelly being credited as drummer on October Rust, World Coming Down, and Life is Killing Me despite the fact that those albums use drum machines (not to say the drummer couldn't have been the one programming).Black Comedy: Quite frequent in their lyrics, though not quite to the same extent as Carnivore."Everybody smokes pot" is a common mondegreen for that section of "I Am The Walrus" (it's officially "everybody, up, up"), while Monte Conner was the vice president of Roadrunner Records while Type O Negative were on the label. Biting-the-Hand Humor: Combined with a The Beatles Shout-Out in "Can't Lose You" - The ending of the song includes a deliberately hard-to-understand chant that sounds similar to one heard near the end of "I Am The Walrus", which turns out to be "Everybody smokes pot / Monte Conner sucks cock".Basso Profundo: Steele's signature low voice, although he was capable of reaching tenor range (and quite loudly as well).His long, dark locks were what contributed to his vampiric image and overall sex appeal, to where he ended up attacking both women and men. Barbarian Longhair: Peter Steele, full stop.It is quite low in the mix, so often missed by those without good headphones. This is an ironic use of the trope as any Christian Fundamentalists looking for satanic backwards messages would find this one instead. Backmasking: "Creepy Green Light" features Steele reciting the prayer "Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep" in the intro, reversed." The table's been set for but seven just last year I dined with eleven." Anti-Christmas Song: "Red Water (Christmas Mourning)," which may just be the single most depressing Christmas song ever.'80s Hair: Keyboard player Josh Silver had this early in their career.Dead Again (2007) note The only album with Johnny Kelly's actual drum playing.October Rust (1996) note Despite Abruscato being replaced with Johnny Kelly, this and the next two albums use programmed drums instead.Bloody Kisses (1993) note Their last album with their first drummer, Sal Abruscato.The Origin of the Feces (1992) note An album of studio recordings made to sound like a Live Album documenting a terrible show against a hostile crowd.They broke up with the passing of Peter Steele in 2010. Notable for being one of the pioneers of Gothic Metal. They often used a distinct pop / indie sensibility most visible on the October Rust album. Founded in 1989 upon the ashes of Face of the Band (and Bassist) Peter Steele's earlier band Carnivore, Type O Negative's Signature Style was an unlikely mixture of Black Sabbath, Goth Rock, and Punk.
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