| Slow, Deep and Hard | ||||
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| Studio album by Type O Negative | ||||
| Released | June 16, 1991 | |||
| Genre | Gothic metal, doom metal, thrash metal | |||
| Length | 58:31 | |||
| Label | Roadrunner | |||
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Slow, Deep and Hard is Type O Negative's debut album, released in 1991 on Roadrunner Records.
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The album, originally titled None More Negative,[2] launched the band's career (which would later skyrocket with Bloody Kisses and October Rust). The album has a rawness that was prominent in Peter Steele's previous band Carnivore, but it incorporates elements that would become standard for Type O Negative, merging styles including doom metal, gothic rock, new wave and industrial music. Slow, Deep and Hard is a semi-autobiographical album (with heavy amounts of black humor) based on a relationship vocalist/bassist Peter Steele was involved in. In keeping with the band's notable humor, the cover of Slow, Deep and Hard is of a blurred out picture of sexual penetration.[3]
Piero Scaruffi, a music historian, has called the album the best heavy metal album of all time, giving it 9/10.[4]
Roadrunner Records released a remastered version of Slow, Deep and Hard on March 24, 2009.[5]
The first track is one of their most famous (better known for its chorus line "I Know You're Fucking Someone Else") is a twelve-minute-long song about being cheated on; the lyrics alternate between the poetic ("'Trust and you'll be trusted,' said the liar to the fool") and crude chants ("Slut! Whore! Cunt!"). The song has been attacked as misogynistic, although it remains one of their best-loved tracks by fans.
Titled after the term used by the Nazis for those they considered unworthy of reproducing. The song attacks those who cheat on welfare and drug dealers, containing such provocative lyrics as, "If you don't pay taxes, you shouldn't vote, so get in line and get back on the boat," and "Spike in your arm, no money for food, yet there's plenty of gas in your BMW." Despite their meaning, the band met with tons of resistance and controversy in Europe which they later parodied on their "live" album The Origin of the Feces.
The third track is a humorous look in the inside of a man who kills his wife and even contains samples of works by German composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
This track contemplates the "pain of desire" and particularly of sexual desire. The song ends with samples of "Jackhammer Rape".
Track five, "Glass Walls of Limbo (Dance Mix)", is a five-minute ambient mix of noise, and a repeated vocal choir. Track six, "The Misinterpretation of Silence and its Disastrous Consequences", is one minute of silence.
The final track, "Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 x 10-8 cm-3 gm-1 sec-2", is about the weight of life, losing the will to live and committing suicide; the last words of the song and the album are "suicide is self-expression".
All lyrics and music by Peter Steele, unless noted.
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