TYPE O NEGATIVE — World Coming Down (review)

TYPE O NEGATIVE — World Coming Down album cover Album · 1999 · Gothic Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
One of the more morbid and depressing releases from Type O Negative, to the point where the musical style seems on the verge of slipping back into doom metal territory on occasion, World Coming Down showcases less of Peter Steele's unique sense of humour than preceding releases and has a startling lyrical and thematic preoccupation with early death (with two instrumentals, Sinus, Liver and Lungs being based around different ways to die from substance abuse).

The faster side of the band's sound is more or less entirely absent, leaving the listener alone with the slow, gloomy riffs and Peter Steele's utterly miserable-sounding mutterings. As with Slow, Deep and Hard, this is an album absolutely dominated by Steele's emotional state at the time, but whilst the debut was dominated by anger this is a depressed and self-hating album.

This is powerful and challenging thematic territory, but unfortunately it is let down somewhat by the musical accompaniment. Musical growth over October Rust is not particularly evident, bar from the simplification and slowing down of the arrangements, and it's perhaps no surprise that another long hiatus was on the cards before the band were able to put out a followup to this after regrouping and rethinking their direction.
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