24) TYPE O NEGATIVE – Dead Again (2007)It’s nice when one of your favorite bands shows that they still have it. It’s even better when they do it by out-weirding everything else they’ve done previously. If this sounds like the same review as the one below, it’s no coincidence. In a decade that saw heavy metal become cross-pollinated beyond recognition (surely there was no such thing as “epic heathen blackened prog metal” in the nineties), when it became gratuitously fashionable to say that your band had a 70s rock influence just because your guitarist played through a fuzz box every now and then, novelty was at its highest premium. But no metal band did anything quite like this—taking the “parodic self-deprecating Beatlesque gothic doom” that made them MTV2-famous in the nineties and infusing it with Russian themes, crazy-ass organ solos and—saints be praised—overt Christian proselytization. And we’re not talking some kind of Orphaned Land mysticism here, we’re talking Glen Beck Storming The Gates Of Apocalypse. I mean, how can one un-hear lyrics such as: “The child is torn from the womb unbaptised / There’s no question it’s infanticide...”? Keep in mind, this is coming from a band whose biggest hit was about a woman masturbating with a crucifix. Is it a joke? If so, then Peter Steele and company have kept a straight face in public for over two years now. And the fact that all of this might be a joke tells you all you really need to know about this band’s personality. Hey, at least they still love Halloween.
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