Slow Deep And Hard
Album by Type O Negative
Released	1991
Recorded	??
Genre	Goth Metal
Length	58 min 31 s
Label	Roadrunner Records
Producer(s)	??
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Type O Negative chronology
N/A	Slow Deep And Hard (1991)	The Origin of the Feces (1992)

Slow Deep and Hard is Type O Negative's first album, released on Roadrunner Records in 1991. It consists of seven tracks and runs at around 58 minutes. It is a semi-autobiographical album (with heavy amounts of black humour) based on a relationship that vocalist/bassist Peter Steele was involved in. The first track is one of their the most famous: "Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty of Infidelity" is a twelve-minute-long heartfelt song about being cheated on; the lyrics alternate between the poetic ("'Trust and you'll be trusted,' said the liar to the fool") and the crude (chants of "Slut! Whore! Cunt!"). The song has been attacked as misogynistic, although it remains one of their best-loved tracks. Image File history File links Slowdeephard. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... This article is about a band. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Goth metal (also called Gothic metal) is a crossover between heavy metal music and goth music itself; although the term metal is debated by those who say it is mainly goth music. ... This article contains information that has not been verified. ... The second (symbol: s) is the SI base unit of time. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Roadrunner United album cover Roadrunner Records is a record label, concentrating on alternative metal music. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) is (among many other tasks) primarily responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for mass production and commercial release. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links Description: Rating stars. ... This article is about a band. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Origin of the Feces is the second album by Brooklyn band Type O Negative. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... This article is about a band. ... Roadrunner United album cover Roadrunner Records is a record label, concentrating on alternative metal music. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Black comedy, also known as black humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire that deals with serious subjects – death, divorce, drug abuse, et cetera in a humorous manner. ... Peter Steele (born January 4th, 1962), is the lead singer of and a bassist for the doom/gothic metal band Type O Negative. ...

The next track is just as controversial, titled "Der Untermensch", after the term used by the Nazis for those they considered unworthy of reproducing. The song attacks those who cheat on welfare and drug dealers, containing such provocative lyrics as, "If you don't pay taxes, you shouldn't vote, so get in line and get back on the boat," and "Spike in your arm, no money for food, yet there's plenty of gas in your BMW." Despite their meaning, the band met with tons of resistance and controversy in Europe that they later parodied on their "live" album "The Origin Of The Feces". The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... Welfare has four main meanings. ... BMW AG (an abbreviation for Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, or in English, Bavarian Motor Works), is a German company and manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles. ... A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ...

The third track, "Xero Tolerance", is a humorous look in the inside of a man who kills his wife and even contains samples of works by German composer Johann Sebastian Bach. The 1748 Haussmann portrait of the composer. ...

The fourth track is "Prelude to Agony", lyrically dealing with the "pain of desire" and particularly of sexual desire. The song ends with samples of what are called "Jackhammer Rape".

The next two tracks are a bit curious. First, track five, is "Glass Walls of Limbo (Dance Mix)" is a five-minute ambient mix of noise, and a repeated vocal choir. Following that is track 6, "The Misinterpretation of Silence and its Disastrous Consequences", which is one minute of silence.

Finally, the album ends with "Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 x 10-8 cm-3 gm-1 sec-2", a half-morbid, half-humorous song about the weight of life, losing the will to live and committing suicide; the last words of the song and the album are "suicide is self-expression". Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act. ...

The album was voted as the best heavy metal album ever by a recent online poll [1]. It is considered the catapult to launching the band's career (which later skyrocketed with Bloody Kisses and October Rust). While the album definitely has a rawness that was prominent on Peter Steele's previous band Carnivore, it does incorporate elements that would be come standard for Type O Negative. Therefore, some (but not all) fans are divided on this album. Either way, it remains a masterpiece of merging styles of thrash, goth, and industrial music. Heavy metal is a form of rock music characterized by aggressive, driving rhythms and highly amplified distorted guitars, generally with grandiose lyrics and virtuosic instrumentation. ... Bloody Kisses is the third album by Brooklyn band Type O Negative. ... October Rust is the fourth album from Type O Negative. ... Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. ... Gothic rock evolved out of post punk during the late 1970s. ...

The album cover is a distorted and fuzzed out image of sexual penetration.

Track list

1. "Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity"
2. "Der Untermensch"
3. "Xero Tolerance"
4. "Prelude to Agony"
5. "Glass Walls of Limbo" (Dance Mix)
6. "The Misinterpretation of Silence and its Disastrous Consequenses"
7. "Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 x 10-8 cm-3 gm-1 sec-2"

• All Lyrics by Peter Steele
• All Music by Type O Negative & J.S. Bach

Personnel

• Peter Steele - Lead Vocals & Bass Guitar
• Kenny Hickey - Lead & Rhythm Guitars, Vocals
• Josh Silver - Keyboards, Synth and Effects, Vocals
• Sal Abruscato - Drums & Percussion, Vocals
• With The Bensonhoist Lesbian Choir (which is actually just the band itself and some of their friends on backing vocals).

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External link

• Official Homepage