![]() Johnny Kelly – backing vocals, drums, percussion.Josh Silver – backing vocals, keyboards, sound effects, drum programming.Kenny Hickey – backing vocals, co-lead vocals (on ".A Dish Best Served Coldly", "How Could She?" and "Angry Inch"), electric guitar.Peter Steele – lead vocals, bass guitar, additional electric guitar and keyboards." Cinnamon Girl (Extended Depression Mix)" Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward " Christian Woman (Butt-Kissing Sell-Out Version)" " I Don't Wanna Be Me" was covered by European death metal band Meridian Dawn for their debut 2014 release The Mixtape. "(We Were) Electrocute" was featured on the soundtrack to the 2003 horror film Freddy vs. But musically, the disc is pure pop-rock bliss." Exclaim! wrote " Life Is Killing Me pays tongue-in-cheek homage to the world and the women that have screwed Steele over so badly. The album was favorably received by music critics. In Europe, the album was also released with a bonus CD. The album was officially released on June 17, 2003, on CD as well as cassette in some regions. Life Is Killing Me was leaked onto the internet before release, upsetting keyboard player Josh Silver to the point that he released a message online complaining that the leak essentially took revenue from the band. Release Professional ratings Review scores Loudwire described it as "the most uplifting sounding album of their career". Musical style ĪllMusic wrote "guitarist Kenny Hickey's passages have grown increasingly melodic, and the keys of Josh Silver possess a timeless melancholy" despite "how bleak or odd the lyrical proceedings get". The album's title track further references Steele's father's death, while "Nettie" was written about his mother. "I Like Goils" is described by Steele as "poking fun at PC" (political correctness), with lyrics centred on Steele's frustration with having homosexual men make sexual advances towards him following his 1995 Playgirl photoshoot, which, at the time, Steele agreed to pose for unaware that women made up only a minority of the readership. "Todd's Ship Gods (Above All Things)" was written by Steele about his father. The track "Thir13teen" is a cover of music featured in the TV show The Munsters.īillboard described the record's lyrical themes as "infidelity, death and depression". The album contains a cover of the song "Angry Inch" from the off-Broadway musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. It is like my dreams are dead." The album's title was originally going to be The Dream Is Dead. I was with a girlfriend for 10 years but she left. And all the things I took for granted, my health, my life, people I love dying, people I loved walking away. Content ĭescribing the inspiration behind the title and theme of the record, Steele responded in an interview: "I guess I am going through some sort of midlife crisis being 41 years old now. This is the last album by the band to make use of programmed drums, which had previously been used on October Rust and World Coming Down the band's next and final studio album, Dead Again, would feature only studio drums. Vocalist and bassist Peter Steele used a custom Fernandes Tremor bass guitar for the recording of the album, an instrument which was built to his exact specifications under his sponsorship with the company. Life Is Killing Me was recorded at Systems Two Recording Studio in Brooklyn, New York. " I Don't Wanna Be Me" was released as a promotional single, for which a music video was produced. 39 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 27,000 copies in its first week, and received positive reviews from music critics, who noted a more melodic sound in comparison to previous records. The album's title and content refers primarily to frontman Peter Steele's dissatisfied life outlook and experiences with mental illness at the time of writing and production, with lyrics concerning relationship problems and the illness and death of his parents. It was released on June 17, 2003, and was their final studio album released through record label Roadrunner Records. Life Is Killing Me is the sixth studio album by gothic metal band Type O Negative.
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