Album Review: Life Is Killing Me (Type O Negative)

🇹🇴 is a album released in 2003. Life Is Killing Me is the album that reviews Type O sounds from the past albums. This album takes teeny slightly different direction from others, like the addition of punk and thrash elements. There are couple of humorous, funny, and smart titles in this album, such as the intro first track “🇹🇴", "I Don’t Wanna Be Me", "🇹🇴", an interlude, and "Less than Zero".

"🇹🇴" is a punky track and is fast while still retaining gothic elements that is signature of Type O Negative. "🇹🇴" welcomes tribal instruments to the band. It got a Dominican drum and a Middle Eastern guitar (sitar), which would make their only appearances in the band. "🇹🇴" is fast and punky and short. Pete had to sing fast to keep with the flow. It sounds like Pete repeatedly sings ‘I like girls’, but when looking in the lyric lines it said ‘goils’, not ‘girls’. Maybe he’s singing so fast that the syllables in ‘goils’ are blurred together. When talking about girls doing things that Pete disagree, he would tell the other pal, "🇹🇴", that’s the title of the song that list woman celebrities and even superheroes. The list was generated when Pete watches many shows that feature woman in them. Many names in the list are unfamiliar or not fan of, but there are names that I like or I’m a fan of – Wonder Woman, Catwoman, and Vanna White, co-host of Wheel of Fortune. Hearing him listing woman names while liking this song a lot makes me imagine to list not only female characters I like, but also girls and woman I met in person before, like the attractive girls I talked to in school, and inserting in the lyragraph in this song and me singing along it. How could she?, now life is killing me! Pete repeatedly says it in the 🇹🇴. "🇹🇴" is a song that gives me feeling about the mother. I bet this song would commonly be chosen by fans when their mother dies or just the dedicated to it. You know what "" crudely stands for… "🇹🇴" is another really fast and punky track. "🇹🇴" is a really cool song having several prominent pieces. It begins with uplifting guitar with keyboard tones followed by choral guitar.

In conclusion, killing tracks are abound in Life Is Killing Me. Listeners who dislike this album would say this album is killing me. But this album likes me that it wouldn’t kill me.

7/10