The Origin of the Feces is the second studio album by the American gothic metal band Type O Negative, released in 1992.
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The Origin of the Feces | ||||
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Studio album by Type O Negative | ||||
Released | May 12, 1992 | |||
Recorded | October 31, 1991 | |||
Studio | Systems Two, Brooklyn, New York | |||
Length | 43:28 | |||
Label | Roadrunner | |||
Producer | P. T. Barnum, Peter Steele, Josh Silver | |||
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The album was recorded in a studio but produced to sound "live" by adding crowd noises, banter with the fictitious audience, and even a song stopping because the venue supposedly had received a bomb threat. This was done to simulate the controversy the band faced during the European leg of their Slow, Deep and Hard tour. The band is known among fans for weaving this type of humour into their often gloomy music.
The album is composed primarily of slightly altered, re-recorded versions of tracks that had appeared already on Slow, Deep and Hard. Four of the song's titles have been deliberately renamed:
One song, "Are You Afraid?", is an original composition that the band played live as an introduction to "Gravity" but never included on an official studio album. It foreshadows the gothic sound the band would adopt on their next album, Bloody Kisses.
This album also started the tradition of Type O Negative including cover songs performed in their distinct gothic metal sound. The album includes covers of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" (which halfway through contains the main riff of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man"), and Billy Roberts' "Hey Joe", which has been re-titled "Hey Pete" for frontman Peter Steele. The reprise of "Kill You Tonight" has a sample of the closing piano strike from The Beatles' "A Day in the Life".
In another instance of the band's sense of humor, circus impresario P. T. Barnum is credited as a producer for the record, despite the fact that he had been dead for over 100 years at the time the album was released.
The original cover of the album has a close-up of Steele's anal sphincter.[3] This was changed for the re-issue two years later, to a green and black version of the 1493 painting by Michael Wolgemut, The Dance of Death. The album's title is an obvious pun and a reference to Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
In addition to the re-issue's cover, other artwork included in the album's sleeve/liner notes is the famous 1498 woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
All lyrics and music by Peter Steele, except where noted.
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "I Know You're Fucking Someone Else"
| 15:02
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2. | "Are You Afraid?" | 2:13 |
3. | "Gravity"
| 7:13
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4. | "Pain"
| 4:41
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5. | "Kill You Tonight" | 2:17 |
6. | "Hey Pete" (Billy Roberts, new lyrics by Peter Steele) | 5:10 |
7. | "Kill You Tonight (Reprise)"
| 7:08
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Total length: | 43:28 |
No. | Title | Length |
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8. | "Paranoid" (Black Sabbath cover) | 7:20 |
Total length: | 50:48 |
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