I can't believe I died last night. Oh God I'm dead again.
Dead Again is the final studio album by Type O Negative, released on March 13, 2007, through SPV label Steamhammer. Amid the band's split from Roadrunner Records, frontman Peter Steele was quietly dealing with issues in his personal life that included going to rehab for cocaine and alcohol problems and briefly doing time for attacking a love rival. Steele converted to Catholicism while attempting to turn his life around, which resulted in some songs on this album having Biblical themes. This new chapter in Steele's life would ultimately be a short one, as he died just three years after the album's release and just as he was planning to write the follow-up to this album.Tracklist:
- "Dead Again" (4:15)
- "Tripping a Blind Man" (7:04)
- "The Profit of Doom" (10:47)
- "September Sun" (9:47)
- "Halloween in Heaven" (featuring Tara VanFlower) (4:50)
- "These Three Things" (14:21)
- "She Burned Me Down" (7:54)
- "Some Stupid Tomorrow" (4:20)
- "An Ode to Locksmiths" (5:15)
- "Hail and Farewell to Britain" (8:55)
Principal Members:
- Peter Steele - Lead vocals, bass
- Kenny Hickey - Guitar, backing and lead vocals
- Josh Silver - Keyboards, backing vocals
- Johnny Kelly - Drums
Troping a blind man:
- Alternate Album Cover: The special edition has the same photo of Grigori Rasputin but with a red tint instead of a green one.
- The Backwards Я: The lettering throughout the album's packaging is in a faux-Cyrillic font.
- Breather Episode: Following the appropriately named "The Profit of Doom" is the (musically) softer "September Sun".
- Celebrities Hang Out in Heaven: "Halloween in Heaven", a tribute to Dimebag Darrell, mentions a rock band formed in heaven.
- Darker and Edgier: This album is doomier than Life Is Killing Me and is inspired by rough patches in Peter's life and his conversion to Catholicism.
- The End of the World as We Know It: "The Profit of Doom" foretells the end times by the events of the Book of Revelation and/or an asteroid colliding with Earth.
- Epic Rocking: The majority of the songs, with special mention going to "These Three Things" (14:21), the longest original song Type O Negative has done.
- Garden of Eden: "An Ode to Locksmiths" is about finding a way to access the Garden of Eden and the banishment of Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis.
- Later-Installment Weirdness:
- The final Type O Negative album is the only one not to be released on Roadrunner Records. It is also one of two albums (along with debut album Slow, Deep and Hard) to have neither an Album Intro Track nor a Cover Version and the only post-Bloody Kisses album (and only one with Johnny Kelly) to have live drums instead of programmed drums.
- "Halloween in Heaven" is the only Type O Negative song to feature a female guest vocalist.
- Although Kenny Hickey has had vocal contributions on most albums since Bloody Kisses, this album has his vocals appear on the (slight) majority of the songs, making him and Peter pretty much a Vocal Tag Team.
- Limited Lyrics Song: Most of the lyrics in "She Burned Me Down" are concentrated in the first two minutes. The rest of the song consists almost entirely of repetitions of "Every time I see her start a fire, I get higher."
- Lyrical Dissonance: "September Sun" is a Surprisingly Gentle Song by the standards of the album, but it deals with an incident that briefly landed Peter in jail as he defended his ex-girlfriend from abuse.
- New Sound Album: This album is a mix of all the group's styles, as it returns to the thrash-punk of Slow Deep And Hard whilst using a lot of progginess of Bloody Kisses and the melodicism of "October Rust" and some of the guitar tone from World Coming Down.
- Revisiting the Roots: Some songs reintroduce the Thrash Metal influences from the early Type O Negative albums, themselves a transition from Peter's previous band Carnivore.
- All hail and farewell to tropers. All hail and farewell to me.
