Bloody Kisses (CD) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Label: Roadrunner Records – RR 9100-2
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: 1993
Genre: Rock
Style: Gothic Metal

1        Machine Screw    0:39
2        Christian Woman    8:57
2a        Body Of Christ (Corpus Christi)
2b        To Love God
2c        J.C. Looks Like Me
3        Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)    11:14
4        Fay Wray Come Out And Play    1:02
5        Kill All The White People    3:23
6        Summer Breeze    4:49
7        Set Me On Fire    3:29
8        Dark Side Of The Womb    0:27
9        We Hate Everyone    6:50
10        Bloody Kisses (A Death In The Family)    10:55
11        3.0.I.F.    2:05
12        Too Late: Frozen    7:50
13        Blood & Fire    5:32
14        Can't Lose You    6:05

Mastered At – Sterling Sound
Recorded At – Systems Two
Recorded At – Sty In The Sky
Pressed By – Sonopress USA – 41293
Artwork [Concept] – Steele*
Artwork [Execution & Development] – Patty*
Composed By [Decomposed] – Steele*
Conductor [Additional Vocals For Brooklyn Philharmonic] – Verdigris Phlogiston
Mastered By – George Marino
Other [Lovely Assistants] – Gabriella, Kim
Photography By [Front Cover, Group] – John Wadsworth
Photography By [Individuals] – Jeff Kitts (2)
Producer – Silver*, Steele*
Sitar, Tambura – Paul Bento
Vocals [Additional] – Bonnie Weiss, Chris Zamp, Debbie Alter, Erasmus High Schools Boys Special Ed, Joey Z., Karen Rose, Keith Caputo, Mike Palmeri, The Bensonhoist Lesbian Choir, Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra*
Recorded at Systems Two/Brooklyn, New York.
Additional recording at Sty In The Sky/Brooklyn New York.
Paul Bento performs courtesy of Sound Views Records.
Barcode: 016861910020

Type O Negative includes: Josh Silver, Peter Steele. Kenny Hickey. Additional personnel: Paul Bento (sitar, tambura). Recorded at Systems Two, Brooklyn, New York. Composer: Pete Steele . Personnel: Erasmus High School Boys Special Ed (vocals, background vocals); Chris Zamp, Karen Rose, Bonnie Weiss, Debbie Alter, Mike Palmeri, Bensonhoist Lesbian Choir, Joey Z., Alan Robert, Pete Steele (vocals); Paul Bento (sitar, tamboura); Keith Caputo (background vocals). Recording information: Sty In the Sky, Brooklyn, NY; Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, NY. Ensemble: Erasmus High School Boys Special Ed. Photographers: John Wadsworth; Jeff Kitts. Type O Negative has delivered either death-metal's first prog-rock concept album, or its "Good Vibrations"...or maybe both. Either way BLOODY KISSES is one of the most alluringly weird albums in the history of the genre--an hour-long ode to break-ups and suicide that mixes acoustic guitars and synthesizers with metallic power chords, and lush choral harmonies with a lead vocalist who sounds like he died sometime before the recording process began. That last bit is meant as a compliment; if you're going to attempt an eleven-minute suicide dirge like the title track, you better be either Leonard Cohen or dead, and Type O's Peter Steele has a bit of both in him. For most of BLOODY KISSES, though, Steele and crew come alive as pop studio experimentalists in a field dominated by anti-pop, anti-studio shredders. "Christian Woman" is a three-part epic that ebbs and flows with a slow metal groove, pretty background vocals, synthesized strings, and a morose lead voice that spells out a story of sex, death and Jesus. "Too Late: Frozen" places a bright pop chorus over chord changes that echo Bruce Springsteen's "Tunnel Of Love." There's a surf-y organ line buried in "Blood & Fire." The best pop joke of them all, if that's what it is, is a heavily psychedelic cover of Seals & Crofts' "Summer Breeze"; try listening to the song (which is done straight) while reading the lyric sheet (which is not).

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format Detail: CD
• Format: CD
• Genre: Gothic Metal/Rock
• Released: 08/17/1993