October Rust

The followup to their 1993 genre defining album Bloody Kisses, Type O Negative’s October Rust cements the band’s position as the jaded kings of goth metal in all of its red velvet, black hair dye, sacrilegious glory. Although it is often thought of as the band’s most mainstream-minded album, October Rust features some of the most hypnotizing and dark guitar riffs since their breakout record. Leaning on bassist Peter Steele’s forlorn wails and velvety voice, October Rust is full of emotionally raw songs about love, lust, and betrayal like “Die With Me,” “In Praise of Bacchus,” and “Love You to Death.” Type O Negative’s darkly humorous spoken word interludes and strange, abrupt endings to the album’s most epic tracks confused die hard listeners at the time but also gained new ones. October Rust also continued the band’s tradition of including covers rendered in their particular gothic metal style, including a melodic hardcore rendition of Neil Young’s “Cinnamon Girl.”