Type O Negative - We Hate Everyone

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As if it suddenly clicked and the green-and-black circuitry connected, the Drab Four, not-so-much One, release this sprawling, 70+ minute, smothering ooze of music. All positives extracted from Negative, Bloody Kisses is the collective of Peter’s ideas subdued, focused, and carried by his confident peers in equal, although keyboardist Josh Silver’s orchestration is more prominent than ever, giving names to tracks that become songs, rather than nests of aggressive fledglings. More goth, less thrash, but very metal, with a bass/guitar fuzz commonplace in a distant doom land, yet distanced so far away from concepts out in the coldest NYC alleyway. Two emotions: bare-fanged hatred for all, and drowning desperation for female companionship, which Peter, in his skulking, quasi-vampiric stature, is their mouthpiece with great bass and pathos. Christian Woman and Black No 1 were obvious radio hits, though neatly sliced in half for length, both wallowing in atmosphere and female sexuality, while equals Blood and Fire and excellent Seals and Croft cover Summer Breeze waved a finger through cellophane and stickers in shops. A commercial success for both band and label, going Platinum and gathering many disenchanted and depressed into a fulcrum. Not the greatest album, but one of my favorites, and a constant mainstay throughout the adolescence I didn’t understand, into the adulthood I believe I do, as a soundtrack for the simplest of concepts, love and hate, and the undiscovered morality in between. Spot all the Beatles references and you win a cyanide lollipop. Note: drummer Sal Abruscato left after the album's release to join Life of Agony, another excellent Brooklyn quartet.