The track was pointlessly edited down to four and a half minutes for single release, losing all its grandeur. It’s solid all the way through, which you can’t say for every long song on this album. This is a truly great song, though the naughty lyrics aren’t poetry. Guitarist Johnny Hickey sings the higher vocals in contrast to Steele’s ridiculously low baritone. If anything is Sabbathy here (besides the title), it’s the varied arrangement, the keys, and the Appice-like drums of Sal Abruscato. Each is a distinct section with its own riff and hooks, with “To Love God” being a soft interlude between two harder parts. A: “Body of Christ (Corpus Christi)”, B: “To Love God”, and C: “J.C. The nine minute track is laid out in three parts in the booklet. (There is also a deluxe edition with all the material from both, plus remixes, and their cover of “Black Sabbath” from Nativity in Black.)īoth versions open with the same song – “Christian Woman” – although the original makes you wait through 40 seconds of metal machine music and moaning called “Machine Screw”. The reissue, with only nine tracks instead of 14, is an overall better listening experience. I didn’t know, but I had bought a recent reissue featuring a new song called “Suspended In Dusk”, while losing a lot of the instrumental bits and novelty songs on the first edition. But Type O did sooth my angry, heartbroken soul when I hit “play” on my brand new copy of Bloody Kisses. Certainly, the comically deep vocals of Peter Steele were nothing like any of the higher-pitched crooners that Sabbath have ever had in their ranks. The gothic imagery, the heavy guitars, the keyboard accents. In fact a few months later, I saw Type O Negative with a bunch of Sabbath fans, and they couldn’t have given a shit. I wouldn’t recommend Type O Negative to any old Sabbath fan like he did. I mean, read this dedication in the inner booklet. I was also about five months since my first big breakup, and I was still bitter and angry. Knowing my infatuation with Black Sabbath, the cop-looking guard recommended Bloody Kisses. I had been collecting Black Sabbath for years, and in 1995 I was still mad for them, trying to acquire the rare stuff on CD like Born Again and Seventh Star. The year was 1995, still early in the winter, and fresh working at the Record Store (for about six months). The other guy had more the look of the cop-wanna-be, the way you picture the cliche of mall security guards in your head. There was Trevor Atkinson, the laziest guard in the world, who I knew from highschool. There were two security guys at the mall. We checked the racks, and we did - Bloody Kisses, the recent re-release in a smart looking cardboard digipack. They are one of my favourite bands right now. “If you like Black Sabbath,” said the security guy at the mall, “then you have to hear Type O Negative. TYPE O NEGATIVE – Bloody Kisses (1993 Roadrunner, original and digipack re-release)
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