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| Dead Again | 
 enlarge | Artist: Type O Negative
Label: Steamhammer Us
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  92 reviews
Sales Rank: 63936
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 99192
UPC: 693723991924
EAN: 0693723991924
ASIN: B000ION6YA
Release Date: March 13, 2007
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Condition: CD & booklet in excellent condition. Ships first class.
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| Tracks:
| • | Dead Again | | • | Tripping A Blind Man | | • | The Profits Of Doom | | • | September Sun | | • | Halloween in Heaven | | • | These Three Things | | • | She Burned Me Down | | • | Some Stupid Tomorrow | | • | An Ode To Locksmiths | | • | Hail And Farewell To Britain |
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Amazon.com
Gothfather Peter Steele returns with a new batch of familiar-sounding tracks that satisfy the ache metal fans have long felt for a new Type O Negative record. While Steele and Co. don't reinvent the genre here, the opening breakneck rocker "Dead Again," its Black Sabbath-on-Diamond Head successor "Tripping a Blind Man," and the epically epic "The Profits of Doom" create the metallic trinity of 2007's first quarter. Elsewhere, Steele gives us another gothic, Alice Cooper-esque ballad ("September Sun"), tears up our speakers with a little bit of humor ("Halloween in Heaven"), and comes around once more to slam down the almighty doom hammer ("She Burned Me Down"). Yes, the production's a little murkier than it probably has to be and no there's nothing that strikes as an immediate classic, but as Type O records go, Dead Again is admirable for its strong convictions and solidity. --Jedd Beaudoin
Album Description
Dead Again is Type O Negative's seventh studio album, and after a four year lapse between releases, a much-anticipated return to the sonic bombast that the Brooklyn-based band is famous for. Clocking in at over 77 minutes, Dead Again is a 10-song musical journey through the darkest depths of the human condition. Love, loss, insanity, morality, mayhem, your secret dreams and worst nightmares are all included in the Type O Negative formula created by the self-taught professor of emotional chemistry, Peter Steele. Recorded and Produced by Steele and keyboardist Josh Silver, the sound of darkness is prophetic, the rock is hard and the screams are real. In the words of Grigori "The Mad Monk" Rasputin, whom the Russian nobility unsuccessfully attempted to kill on numerous occasions for his influence on the last family of Czars, "When the bell tolls three times, it will announce that I have been killed...Pray Czar of Russia. Pray." With past gold and platinum albums under their belts, the bells have definitely not tolled for Type O Negative. Reaffirmed and resolute, they bring you news from a darker place, a place of infinitely organized chaos where the living cannot be swayed from their infinite circle of creation and destruction. We are born, we live, we fuck it all up, we strive to forgive and be forgiven, and we are reborn. Type O Negative are on the brink of a rebirth. But first they are Dead Again!
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 TON returns with a powerful album in "Dead Again" March 19, 2007
24 out of 27 found this review helpful
Type O Negative returns with their seventh studio album titled "Dead Again". With this album, Peter Steele and his crew of doom metal deities deliver a very solid album that is diverse in both its musicianship and themes. I won't cover every song on the album, but will note that if you are a Type O Negative fan like me and haven't picked up this album yet, you're late!
The title track grabbed me immediately as it starts out with a slow and sonic brooding that drags along with an ethereal soundscape. At this time I'd like to say, "hat's off" to one of the most underrated keyboard/pianists of the metal family in Josh Silver. Josh's ability to create far reaching and intricate sounds from his fingertips that really add a lot to this music has never ceased to amaze me. "Dead Again" shortly leaves the slow buildup for fast paced fallout of a chorus that has Peter Steele's vocals setting the base for what will be a great foundation for the rest of the album to build upon. Track three is "Profit of Doom" and is a recipe for raucous guitars and dark, doom-laden sounds. Track Four is "September Sun" and is a wonderful ballad that starts out with a great little piano piece that leads into some soulful and slow vocals that eventually thunder into an emotional chorus of triumph. Bass, lead guitar, vocals, percussion and keyboards are all magnificent on this track.
The album rounds out the ten tracks with "Hail and Farewell to Britain" which is another masterful mid-tempo song that has some of the best dual guitar work I've heard in a while. The last minute of the track is led into with some harrowing recordings that you will have to listen for yourself.
Type O Negative didn't change much of their formula, but they didn't have to. This album shows a superb effort from the band to create, play and produce excellently written songs that are backed up with a musical expertise that in my humble opinion, still puts them several length's ahead of the pack. Two of the songs clock in at over ten minutes long, but this progressive approach is fine considering the talent these guys emit with their studio albums, which of course always have covers tinged with tones of green.
An intense release March 13, 2007
23 out of 29 found this review helpful
Not since October Rust has Type O Negative sounded this fresh and vibrant. Free of the personal demons that created the themes for World Coming Down and Life Is Killing Me(Great albums), Peter Steele and company deliver 77 mins of slow, dirgy sabbath-like metal, with a LOT of punk thrown in this time around(Dead Again, Halloween In Heaven). Kenny does a lot of screaming on this album too...like a lot. It also has its mellow points as well with September Sun. She Burned Me Down is almost like a sequel to Burnt Flowers Fallen, a great track. As a whole, the album will stand the test of time just like their other releases. Great metal record. Without a doubt, if you even consider yourself a fan then you will want this album. TYPE O NEGATIVE DEAD AGAIN
Get it and be happy.
 The Dream is Dead March 24, 2007
10 out of 23 found this review helpful
[Let it first, be know that this is my girlfriend's account and she should not be held responsible for this review... I am `Uncle Mat' and and you will be hearing from me in the future.]
I find it ironic that the last song on the last album was called, `The Dream is dead'. First of all, I was really surprised with a March release, being that Type O (at least for me) had come to represent the fall and Halloween. I was really excited, nonetheless, so, I wasted no time in getting out all my Halloween decorations in preparation for the big day. Hearing, `These Three Things', on the website, had me confident and even more excited about my favorite band being back!
Oh, the running around I did and the money I spent in celebration of this new album... Do you know just how hard it is to find orange and black stick candles in the spring? Well, I found them, along with the also needed green ones. So, there I am at my home studio/ computer work station surrounded by orange black and green crepe paper, about 30 or so lit candles and lanterns, two open bottles of $25 Cabernet Sauvignon (I won't be needing a glass) and the anticipatory and gentle hiss of my studio monitors, telling me that my "Halloween in Spring", was about to put any type of `Christmas in July' celebrations to shame.
I placed the CD on the rack and pushed the close button. Little did I know that that very moment would be the summit of my night. The first song finished and I told myself, `it's OK, there's still nine to go... then eight... then seven. The first song I found myself kind of liking was `Summer Sun' but, even then, the opening minute or so, reminded me of Adam Sandler singing, `Somebody Kill Me' to Drew Barrymore in `The Wedding Singer'. The CD played on.
Finally, there was `These Three Things' but, this time hearing it through, left me with a bit of a sullied felling in my stomach. Half the CD was over and so far this song was the only semblance of which I had grown to love Type O Negative.
`An Ode to Locksmiths' is a somewhat notable tune but, then again, it sounded like it could have come from any number of other bands. The album finished. I wasn't drunk; I was brooding for all the wrong reasons and I started to think that if I wasn't careful, all these candles could really burn the house down. I took a break then listened to it a second time and still there was nothing. I waited four years and spent $80 ($95, if I count the CD itself) for THIS!!! It should have been called, `An Ode to Skater Punks'!
Where's the `Love you to death'? Where's the `Creepy green light'? Where's the `Todd's ship Gods'? The `Red Water's; the `All Hallows eve's. Where's the `Haunted', the `Burn with me'; the `Everything dies'; the `Who will save the sane?'? I could go on and on. Where are the rich, haunting, brooding and beautiful melodies? Where are the anthems of layered chorus' and polyrhythm that were so richly a trademark of Type O's indelible sound?
This I have to ask of all you die hard Type O fans who are commenting on this album with rave reviews... If you loved Type O so much before this album, what is it you like about it and if you love this album so much what on earth did you like about them before? I really don't get it and as far as I'm concerned I'm really feeling like `The dream is dead'. If they want to reclaim what they truly are in the NEXT four years... fine. But, I won't be waiting with bated breath this time. I'm too old to take up skateboarding.
I wanted Halloween and what I got was April fools day!
Dead Again March 13, 2007
9 out of 15 found this review helpful
I will make this simple. Dead Again is one of my favorite records of all time.
 WTF!!! And an UPDATE June 23, 2007
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
UPDATE - OK, I need to update my original review. After listening to this CD, an additional 200+ times, I have to admit I would have to give it a higher rating. The CD did really grow on me and I came to really enjoy it, particularly the first 5 songs, and really "September Sun" and "Tripping a Blind Man". Track 9 "Ode to Locksmiths", is also really good. However, I still stand by that at least 10 mins of the album, if not 15 mins, could have been axed due to the over repetitious segments and intros that TON seems to have with a lot of their songs. Also, "These Three Things", I DO NOT want to hear Peter singing about his views on abortion.
OK, so I would REALLY give it 2 1/2 stars, however, since i can't give half stars, it doesn't deserve 3. I would like to say, right off the bat, yes, I too, am a BIG TON fan. However, I will NOT sugarcoat a review or be blinded by what is put out on this CD just because I really like these guys. I just finished it, from womb to tomb, and I have to say this really falls short.
A primer first, my music influence ranges from, my favorite, RUSH, to TON to Celldweller, but I also love stuff like Tom Vedvik and Global Communications, so my interests are not just cemented in Goth Rock, or the likes thereof. And, I too, have been in the music field, so I'll try and put a "professional" opinion on this review.
When I listened to this CD, I was amazed at how much repitition in licks and hooks this album has, not only within itself, but also with their last three recordings. From the begining of Dead Again, with the pick scraping down the strings, to the ending of the song, which sounds just like the ending of "Angry Inch." Now, I can just hear the avid, or rabid, TON fan saying, "But it's their thing, that's what TON is, it's their sound." Well, I prefer to have constant originality and not rehashing songs that sound just like 4 or 5 others before it.
Like one other reviewer wrote, they do have some chick singing in "Halloween in Heaven," and yes, her voice is far from great. In fact, it's rather dull, almost sounding like she had a slight head cold. Sorry if she finds this review negative, but I call them like I hear them.
What is slightly impressive is some of the guitar solos. What is even more impressive, if it's really Kenny playing them, and not having them substituted, like he did on "How Could She." As much as I love these guys, they do fall short in the musically talented arena, compared to the likes of Rush, Yes, and such, as well as second seat players (insert band here). However, TON will also be the first to admit they are not star performers in the given roles, but what they do have, is what it takes to sound significantly different from anyone else, and that's what makes them a star act.
I just wish, after waiting nearly 4 years, is that something a little more "orginal" from this "orginal" band could have been produced. I absolutely loved "Life is Killing Me," "October Rust," and even Peter's least favorite recording, "World Coming Down." Although I found myself taping out a beat hear and there, or just sitting back and trying to focus on the song, this recording offers no real catchy hooks, muscially charged impressions, and no real "POP". ( And I don't mean "pop" as in "pop music") At times the music almost sounds like a ditribe of repetitiveness.
Some people talk about giving it an x amount of times listening to it and then "dreaming" about a song and suddenly falling for this album. I just don't see that happening, and it really shouldn't have to, especially if you really like a band. The really sh**ty thing about this is, watch me listen to this a dozen more times and then start to come over to the dark side. Hmm, doubt it.
I still love these guys, and yes, it will always be in my collection and on my mp3 player. I just hope they get back to thier old ways, soon.
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