"World coming down" CD by Type O Negative

by Sonja Angerer (10/99) If there is a band who deserves to set the final point of the Nineties, it would be Type O Negative. This is exactly what they do with their fifth album: with a length of approximately 74 minutes, it has almost the size of a double-album. Generously, they preferred quality, not quantity, although "World coming down" seems to be a little more bulky than the relatively radio-suitalble predecessor "October rust". Mainly because of the wide epic range. Just the title song lasts for more than 11 minutes - none of the other regular tracks falls below the 6-minutes-limit, except the three interludes "Sinus", "Liver" and "Lung". The new tracks seem to orientate painfully towards "Blody kisses". Steele's complaint "Everyone I love is dead" - the core of the album - is especially impressive: complaint and loss, not sex and erotics are the this album's main subjects - it has ripened like old red wine. Obviously, as producers, Steele and Silver have attached a lot of importance to fineness, so that after repeated listenning, the twelve tracks offer a great wealth of details: This album has the ability to get you through this winter, even if Y2K means the end of the world - this is the one and only appropriate and stylish soundtrack for it. (Sonja Angerer-10/99)