Type O Negative Samples

Hear 'Dead Again' samples

30-second audio samples of all 10 tracks that are set to appear on the new TYPE O NEGATIVE album, entitled "Dead Again", are available at BarnesAndNoble.com.

The album's title "Dead Again" implies a spiritual and physical void, but TYPE O is anything but finished. Although all of the sonics that have defined them for the past 17 years are still there, the quartet has significantly ratcheted up everything from atmospheres to musicianship. "The Profits Of Doom" features an opiate-laden psychedelic breakdown, while songs like "Tripping A Blind Man" and "Some Stupid Tomorrow" are powered by breakneck hardcore beats, which then downshift into medium-tempo grooves conjuring a '70s underground vibe. "September Sun" reconfigures the "power ballad," where the quieter melancholic parts are given greater resonance by the density of the riffs. "She Burned Me Down" is a destroyed-by-love song that inexplicably fuses guitarist Kenny Hickey's arena-rock sensibilities with LAIBACH-ian martial cadences. The closing "Hail And Farewell To Britain" — frontman Peter Steele's scathing farewell to a duplicitous ex-friend — stirs solid riffing, lyrical invective, incredibly deft playing along with field recordings of combat (think SONIC YOUTH covering THE ANIMALS' 1968 hit "Sky Pilot") for a jarring conclusion.