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  • Artist: Type O Negative
  • Rating: StarStarStarStar
  • Release Date: 1993
  • Type: Contains explicit content, Lyrics are included with the album
  • Genre: Rock

Review

Bloody Kisses was Type O Negative's major step forward, maintaining the long, repetitive song structures of albums past, but adding more atmospheric synths and left-field Beatlesque pop melodies. The quantum leap in songwriting is what really drives the album, but it also coincides with a newfound sense of subtlety. Aside from a couple of smart-aleck rants, Peter Steele's dark, melodramatic songs address heartbreak and loneliness in what sounds at first like deadly serious overkill. But not far beneath the surface, he's also satirizing his own emotional excesses, and those of goth rock in general. Steele's lyrics gleefully wallow in goth clichés -- sex, death, Christianity, vampires, more sex, and death -- and he even sings most of the album in an intentionally vampiric croon straight from the depths of an ancient crypt. Among other things, that delivery lends hilarious irony to a glum cover of Seals & Crofts' soft rock hit "Summer Breeze"; it's also perfect for the deadpan mockery of the goth-girl character sketch "Black No. 1." Hardly any of the songs need to be as long as they are, but that ridiculous excess is all part of Type O Negative's sly, twistedly affectionate send-up of goth rock conventions. Though it sounds like a funeral, Bloody Kisses' airy melodicism and '90s-style irony actually breathed new life into the flagging goth metal genre, and the album is an often overlooked forerunner to alternative metal's limited appropriation of goth style. ~ Steve Huey, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Christian Woman (Lyrics) Pete Steele, Josh Silver Type O Negative (:40)
Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family) Josh Silver, Pete Steele Type O Negative (8:58)
Too Late: Frozen Pete Steele, Josh Silver Type O Negative (11:15)
Blood & Fire Pete Steele, Josh Silver Type O Negative (1:03)
Can't Lose You Pete Steele, Josh Silver Type O Negative (3:24)
Summer Breeze (Lyrics) Dash Crofts, James Seals Type O Negative (4:49)
Set Me on Fire Josh Silver, Pete Steele Type O Negative (3:29)
Suspended in Dusk [#] Pete Steele, Josh Silver Type O Negative (:28)
Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All) Josh Silver, Pete Steele Type O Negative (6:51)

Credits

Debbie Alter (?), Verdigris Phlogiston (Conductor), Bonnie Weiss (Vocals), Patty (Art Direction), Pete Steele (Composer), Bensonhoist Lesbian Choir (Choir, Chorus), Jeff Kitts (Photography), Chris Zamp (Vocals), Erasmus High School Boys Special Ed (Vocals (Background)), Erasmus High School Boys Special Ed (Vocals), Pete Steele (Vocals), Pete Steele (Producer), Joey Z. (Vocals), Patty (Art Executor), Bensonhoist Lesbian Choir (Vocals), Silver (Producer), Paul Bento (Tamboura), Bonnie Weiss (?), Debbie Alter (Vocals), George Marino (Mastering), Erasmus High School Boys Special Ed (Ensemble), The Philharmonia Orchestra (Orchestra), Karen Rose (?), Karen Rose (Vocals), Keith Caputo (Vocals (Background)), Paul Bento (Sitar), Alan Robert (Vocals), Mike Palmeri (Vocals), Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra), Mike Palmeri (?), Steele (Art Direction), John Wadsworth (Photography), Alan Robert (?), Josh Silver (Producer)
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Bloody Kisses
Studio album by Type O Negative
Released August 17, 1993
Recorded Systems Two, Brooklyn
Genre Gothic metal, Alternative metal
Length Original: 73:07
Digipak: 67:25
Label Roadrunner Records
Producer Peter Steele, Josh Silver
Professional reviews
Type O Negative chronology
The Origin of the Feces
(1992)		 Bloody Kisses
(1993)		 October Rust
(1996)
Singles from Bloody Kisses
  1. "Black No.1 (Little Miss Scare-All)"
    Released: 1993
  2. "Christian Woman"
    Released: 1993
  3. "Summer Breeze"
    Released: 1994

Bloody Kisses is the third album by Brooklyn band Type O Negative. It marked significant stylistic growth for the band in terms of songwriting and production values, and it is also the last recording to feature Sal Abruscato on drums. The album further established Type O Negative motifs, such as including cover songs restylized into gloomy Gothic metal, featuring sample-heavy soundscapes in between songs, and dry, satirical humor. This album includes a cover of the Seals and Crofts song "Summer Breeze".

The most successful single from Bloody Kisses was the song "Black No.1 (Little Miss Scare-All)", which poked fun at (and paid tribute to) gothic subculture stereotypes. A radio edit of the song achieved modest airplay and the song has become a staple of Type O Negative's live show. The video even appeared on Beavis and Butt-Head, where it received a positive reaction from the duo.

The tracks "Kill All The White People" and "We Hate Everyone" were written as a response to the controversy over the bands' alleged racist sentiments that were born after a tour in Europe and due to Peter Steele's previous band Carnivore's explicit lyrics. They feature lyrics mocking the whole issue. These songs were later omitted from the Digipack release of this album since they differ stylistically from the rest of the tracks.

Contents

Track listing

All lyrics and music are by Peter Steele unless otherwise noted.

Original release

  1. "Machine Screw" (Intro) – 0:40
  2. "Christian Woman" – 8:55
  3. "Black No.1 (Little Miss Scare-All)" – 11:11
  4. "Fay Wray Come Out and Play" (Interlude) – 1:04
  5. "Kill All the White People" – 3:23
  6. "Summer Breeze" (originally by Seals and Crofts) – 4:47
  7. "Set Me on Fire" – 3:29
  8. "Dark Side of the Womb" (Interlude) – 0:26
  9. "We Hate Everyone" – 6:50
  10. "Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)" – 10:52
  11. "3.O.I.F." (Interlude) – 2:06
  12. "Too Late: Frozen" – 7:49
  13. "Blood & Fire" – 5:30
  14. "Can't Lose You" – 6:05

Digipak re-release

A digipak version was later released that removed two tracks, the intro and the interludes (at the band's request) and added one new song.

  1. "Christian Woman" – 8:53
  2. "Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)" – 10:56
  3. "Too Late: Frozen" – 7:50
  4. "Blood & Fire" – 5:32
  5. "Can't Lose You" – 6:05
  6. "Summer Breeze" (originally by Seals and Crofts) – 4:49
  7. "Set Me on Fire" – 3:29
  8. "Suspended in Dusk" (new song) – 8:36
  9. "Black No.1 (Little Miss Scare-All)" – 11:15

"Top Shelf" Edition (2009 Re-release)

Roadrunner Records re-released Bloody Kisses on 5/5/09 with a bonus CD of rarities and B-sides.

Disc One:

  1. "Machine Screw" (Intro) – 0:40
  2. "Christian Woman" – 8:55
  3. "Black No.1 (Little Miss Scare-All)" – 11:11
  4. "Fay Wray Come Out and Play" (Interlude) – 1:04
  5. "Kill All the White People" – 3:23
  6. "Summer Breeze" (originally by Seals and Crofts) – 4:47
  7. "Set Me on Fire" – 3:29
  8. "Dark Side of the Womb" (Interlude) – 0:26
  9. "We Hate Everyone" – 6:50
  10. "Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)" – 10:52
  11. "3.O.I.F." (Interlude) – 2:06
  12. "Too Late: Frozen" – 7:49
  13. "Blood & Fire" – 5:30
  14. "Can't Lose You" – 6:05

Disc Two:

  1. "Suspended in Dusk" – 8:36
  2. "Black Sabbath"
  3. "Black Sabbath" (From The Satanic Perspective)
  4. "Christian Woman" (Edit)
  5. "Christian Woman" (Butt-Kissing Sell-Out Version)
  6. "Black #1" (Edit)
  7. "Blood & Fire" (Out Of The Ashes Remix)
  8. "Summer Breeze" (Rick Rubin Mix)

Credits

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1993 The Billboard 200 166

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