![]() Track listing Īll lyrics and music by Peter Steele, unless noted. The cover image was taken from a pornographic magazine, a close-up of a penis entering a vagina during sexual intercourse. After the band found out that there was another band using this name, they changed their name to Type O Negative. The recordings on the album initially appeared on a demo called None More Negative, released under the band name Repulsion. Then the next song would kick in." The main riff of "Gravitational Constant" was inspired by the theme song for the sitcom The Munsters. We were hoping people would think it was fucked up and turn their stereos up really loud. ![]() "The Misinterpretation of Silence and Its Disastrous Consequences" consists of hiss from a blank audio cassette tape Silver explained, "We actually just ran a blank tape. "Unsuccessfully Coping With the Natural Beauty of Infidelity" used the chord structure of Simple Minds' song " Don't You (Forget About Me)". However, they did not translate well to non-English speaking countries, where lyrics intended as being sarcastic were directly translated and taken literally. That's fine." Silver said, regarding the album's lyrics, "I think Peter was at the height of his lyrical powers". But at the same time, go ahead and make us famous. As a Jew, I obviously never wanna be labeled as a Nazi. ![]() Meanwhile, there were bands playing right down the block that are sieg-heiling the audience, and nobody's bothering with them. Keyboardist Josh Silver, who is Jewish, recalled, "They just invented a bunch of shit and said we were Nazis. ![]() Untermensch, translated from German, means "under man", a broad slur used by Nazis. The lyrics were intended to be sarcastic, though several songs, like "Unsuccessfully Coping With the Natural Beauty of Infidelity," "Prelude to Agony" and "Der Untermensch", led to accusations of misogyny, bigotry and Nazism. Revolver said that the album was "noisy and angry" and "a far cry from the hooky choruses and doom-out goth of their 1993 breakout, Bloody Kisses," having more in common with the New York hardcore sound of Peter Steele's previous band, Carnivore. Keyboardist and producer Josh Silver convinced his parents to lend him $6,000 so the band could record the album. ![]()
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