Dead Again..

TYPE O NEGATIVE have raised the bar. "Dead Again" is arguably TYPE O's most ambitious record yet, teeming with fury, sorrow and darkness and delivered with a broader sound palette that's neither contrived nor cloying. "Spacing the records far apart is how you achieve diverse results," says keyboardist Josh Silver. "When you're forced to write an album every year or eight months, you haven't changed — you're still the same asshole you were eight months ago. We've been different assholes every record. We've retained our identity through all the changes." "All of my music is based on what is going on in my life at the time and exaggerating it," reveals Steele. "If I didn't exaggerate it, I'd be writing about what I had for dinner last night." Though early on, he and Silver used to define the band's oeuvre as "gothadelic industrimetal," these days he prefers "Confused dirge-core — the songs go from 40 BPM to 140 within a tenth of a second."