MUSIC

The third re-release of the third full-length studio album by legendary American Glam/Heavy Metal band.
With their comedic videos and bubblegum undertones, hit singles "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock" helped the band bridge the "beauty gap" into MTV acceptance, and a competent power ballad in "The Price" would cement their consumer-friendly status. But it was the irrefutable menace of tracks like "The Beast", "S.M.F.", and the massive "Burn in Hell" that connected with their loyal fans and displayed Twisted Sister's true power.
According to RIAA certification, "Stay Hungry" is the band's most successful album by far and the only certified Platinum. Eventually the album gained multi-Platinum status with U.S. sales of more than 3.000.000 copies by 1995.
Metal Rules ranked the album #5 on their list of the "Top 50 Glam Metal Albums". In 2016, Loudwire ranked the album at number 6 on their list of the "Top 30 Hair Metal Albums". In 2017, Rolling Stone listed the album at No. 76 on its list of the "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time".
In 2004, the band re-recorded all nine songs from this album and re-released them under the title “Still Hungry”.
Atlantic Recording Corporation, 1984 (7567-80156-2). Made in Germany.


Tracklist:
1. Stay Hungry 3:03
2. We're Not Gonna Take It 3:38
3. Burn In Hell 4:53
4. Horror-Teria (The Beginning) 7:45
    a) Captain Howdy
    b) Street Justice
5. I Wanna Rock 3:06
6. The Price 3:48
7. Don't Let Me Down 4:26
8. The Beast 3:30
9. S.M.F. 3:00
Total playing time: 37:05 min.

Remastered re-release of the second full-length studio album by legendary American Glam/Heavy Metal band.
From the solid sales of their independently released debut album, 1982's "Under The Blade", New York's Twisted Sister were finally rewarded with a major record label contract, courtesy of the Atlantic, who issued their first domestic release, "You Can't Stop Rock & Roll", a year later.
The album followed the same Raw Heavy Metal direction of their debut, and was even more consistent from a songwriting and performance standpoint. The title track is a new recording of the track "Can't Stop Rock And Roll" which appeared on the compilation "Son Of Homegrown" in 1982.
Several of Twisted Sister's best anthems reside her, the title track (which was one of the band's first videos to be aired on MTV), as well as "The Kids Are Back", "We're Gonna Make It", and "I Am (I'm Me)". But besides a ballad that vocalist Dee Snider wrote especially for his wife, "You're Not Alone (Suzette's Song)", the album consists of 100 percent Heavy Metal - "Like a Knife in the Back", "Ride to Live, Live to Ride", "I've Had Enough", and "I'll Take You Alive".
The songs "The Kids Are Back", "I Am (I'm Me)," and the album's title track were released as Singles. The album was certified Gold by the RIAA in November 1995, for selling over 500,000 copies in the USA. Metal-rules.com put the album in their list of "The Top 100 Heavy Metal Albums" and on their list of "The Top 50 Glam Metal Albums".
Atlantic Recording Corporation, A Warner Music Company/WEA International Inc., 1983 (7567-80074-2). Made in Germany. Re-press.


Tracklist:
1. The Kids Are Back 3:17
2. Like A Knife In The Back 3:05
3. Ride To Live, Live To Ride 4:05
4. I Am (I'm Me) 3:36
5. The Power And The Glory 4:22
6. We're Gonna Make It 3:45
7. I've Had Enough 4:03
8. I'll Take You Alive 3:07
9. You're Not Alone (Suzette's Song) 4:07
10. You Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll 4:42
Total playing time: 38:09 min.



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The fourth full-length studio album by legendary British Heavy Metal band.
"The Cage" marked a move in a more commercial direction, selling over 200 000 copies and giving birth to two top 50 songs in the UK, namely the covers of Leiber & Stoller's song "Love Potion No. 9", performed by The Clovers, and the lesser-known RPM song "Rendezvous". Another Single, charted at 63, was the Steve Thompson song "Paris by Air".
It was shortly after producing this album that the band split for the first time, due to tensions with their record company. Robb Weir and Brian Dick then formed the band Sergeant.
Rare edition in hard cover sleeve with titles in Spanish and English.
MCA Records, 1982/1983 (LAE-530). Made in Mexico. Used (cover/disc): VG-/VG+.


Tracklist:

Side A
1. Rendezvous (RPM cover) 3:25
2. Lonely At The Top 3:33
3. Letters From L.A. 3:15
4. Paris By Air 3:00
5. Tides 4:16

Side B
1. Makin Tracks 3:38
2. The Cage 1:12
3. Love Potion Number (The Clovers cover) 9 2:05
4. You Always See What You Want To See 3:16
5. Danger In Paradise 3:33
6. The Actor 4:19

Total playing time: 35:32 min.

The fourth full-length album by the American Melodic Hard Rock/AOR band.
If you’re the kind of fan of the late ‘80s and early ‘90s Melodic Rock scene that still follows the bands all these years later, you’re no doubt aware of the fact that the original Tyketto lineup is back together and has a new album out. Tyketto’s latest, titled "Dig In Deep" is their first album since 1995’s "Shine". It’s not "Shine" that Tyketto has to follow-up here though. With the original lineup – Danny Vaughn, Brooke St. James, Jimi Kennedy and Michael Clayton – intact, fans are looking for an album that is worthy of 1991’s "Don’t Come Easy" and 1994’s "Strength In Numbers", two of the best Melodic Rock albums that decade had to offer.
The band members haven’t exactly been sitting idle these past two decades. Vocalist Danny Vaughn in particular has maintained a successful solo career as well as his From The Inside side-project. As a result, "Dig in Deep" sounds like what it is, the work of seasoned veterans who are older and wiser, but no less optimistic than they were back in 1991. It’s not as instantly memorable as "Don’t Come Easy" was, with its dynamite hooks and radio-ready singles, but "Dig In Deep" definitely has the Tyketto spirit, especially in the lyrics. You hear it the most on the album’s Harder Rocking songs, like the dynamic opener “Faithless” and the stomping “The Fight Left in Me”, which features some blistering guitar work from St. James and could have come straight from "Strength In Numbers". The rest of the album alternates between the kind of mid-tempo melodic rockers and Eagles-like slower songs you’d find on one of Danny Vaughn’s solo albums. That’s not a bad thing, given how good a songwriter Vaughn is, but at the same time songs like “Here’s Hoping It Hurts” and “Monday” don’t stand out clearly as Tyketto songs.
We’re not getting another "Don’t Come Easy" here, but that was probably an unreasonable expectation in the first place. What we are getting in "Dig In Deep" is a smooth Melodic Rock album with a solid Rock 'n' Roll backbone, real heart and soul, top-notch musicianship and vocals to die for, and that’s not a bad deal at all. "Dig In Deep" is a welcome comeback from one of the best, and most consistently overlooked, bands in Melodic Rock! Tyketto return with a stellar album for AOR and early 90’s Rock fans around the world. Sounding as if they found a time machine back to 1991 the band puts out a devastatingly brilliant release!!
Frontiers Records, 2012 (FR CD 550). Used: very good.


Tracklist:
1. Faithless 4:45
2. Love To Love 4:24
3. Here's Hoping It Hurts 3:43
4. Battle Lines 3:30
5. The Fight Left In Me 4:56
6. Evaporate 3:42
7. Monday 3:52
8. Dig In Deep 4:00
9. Sound Off 3:06
10. Let This One Slide 4:29
11. This Is How We Say Goodbye 4:30
Total playing time: 44:57

The 30th Anniversary Edition re-release of the third full-length studio album by legendary American Gothic/Doom Metal band.
This album combines melancholy beauty, found in songs such as “Christian Woman”, common Metal brutality, found in songs such as “Too Late: Frozen”, and even Hardcore influenced craziness found in songs such as “We Hate Everyone”, which fuses 80s Hardcore/Punk with a Doom Metal midsection with the greatest of ease. Harsh Metal vocals and screams here, Peter Steele manages to galvanize the Gothic atmosphere by adding a nearly inhumane vocal sound to the mix.
This is probably their Darkest, Doomiest release. It's definitely their most Goth release, though. Peter Steele is certainly no mall Goth type person, and it's funny how he pokes fun at those types with “Black No. 1”. A fan of any form of extreme music be it Metal or Hardcore can probably find something that they like on this album since this album manages to fuse all these different types of music together and then envelop it in a Gothic atmosphere. It is certainly their darkest, most depressive release.
"Bloody Kisses" comes the first album on Roadrunner Records to ever reach Gold and Platinum status.
Strongly recommended to Doom fans, Goth fans and Metal fans in general!
2009 remastered, re-edition includes 23-page booklet and second disc with 7 bonus tracks.
This is a misprint version, which is listed 8 bonus tracks on packaging and in notes, but track 5 “Christian Woman (Butt-Kissing, Sell-Out Version)” is not included in this release.
Roadrunner Records/Rhino Entertainment Company, A Warner Music Group Company, 1993/1994/1995/1997/2009/2024 (R2 726190 / 603497826667). Made in Germany.


Tracklist:

Disc One
1. Machine Screw 0:40
2. Christian Woman 8:56
3. Black No. 1 11:16
4. Fay Wray Come Out And Play 1:03
5. Kill All The White People 3:24
6. Summer Breeze 4:54
7. Set Me On Fire 3:29
8. Dark Side Of The Womb 0:28
9. We Hate Everyone 6:51
10. Bloody Kisses 10:56
11. 3.O.I.F. 2:06
12. To Late: Frozen 7:51
13. Blood & Fire 4:28
14. Can't Lose You 6:06
Running time: 72:28 min.

Disc Two
1. Suspended In Dusk 8:40
2. Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath cover) 7:51
3. Black Sabbath (From The Satanic Perspective) (Black Sabbath cover) 7:48
4. Christian Woman (Edit) 4:28
5. Black No. 1 (Edit) 4:39
6. Blood & Fire (Out Of The Ashes Mix) 4:37
7. Summer Breeze (Rick Rubin Mix) 4:57
Running time: 43:00 min.

Total playing time: 115:28 min.

The second re-release of the seventh and the final full-length studio album by legendary American Gothic/Doom Metal band.
Album was released before the death of frontman Peter Steele.
The band uses studio drums instead of a drum machine for the first time since their third album, "Bloody Kisses". Thus, it remains the only Type O Negative studio album with Johnny Kelly's actual playing, as he was only "credited" as the drummer on the three albums prior to "Dead Again".
Unbelievably heavy Sludge riffs are still a main ingredient, as well as singer Pete Steele's ongoing "Kill me, I'm in agony" lyrics, and vocals that sometimes sound quite Bela Lugosi-esque. The album-opening title track may very well be the most melodic song the band has ever recorded, but the Type O Negative we all know and love is lurking right around the bend, especially on such tracks as "The Profits of Doom" (the album's original working title), "She Burned Me Down," and "An Ode to Locksmiths," the latter of which contains a guitar riff so Tony Iommi-esque that it sounds straight off of "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath".
The cover photo is a portrayal of Grigori Rasputin, the Russian mystic and associate of Tsar Nicholas II. The photograph on the back was taken in 1906, showing four young women of the Tsarist family, identified left to right as Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia Nikolaevna. The lettering is in a faux-Cyrillic font.
Reception for this album was quite positive among fans and critics, and received the highest chart position for the band yet.
With "Dead Again", Type O Negative delivers another album of dark tales and even darker riffs, and will reassure morose metalheads that they can still count on Steele to spread the misery.
15th Anniversary re-release features 16-page booklet and Bonus Disc with ten live tracks.
Nuclear Blast Records, 2007/2022 (NBR 64892). Made in Germany.


Tracklist:

CD 1 “Dead Again”
1. Dead Again 4:15
2. Tripping A Blind Man 7:05
3. The Profits Of Doom 10:47
4. September Sun 9:47
5. Halloween In Heaven 4:50
6. These Three Things 14:21
7. She Burned Me Down 7:54
8. Some Stupid Tomorrow 4:21
9. An Ode To Locksmiths 5:15
10. Hail And Farewell To Britain 8:56
Running time: 77:33 min.

CD 2 “Bonus Disc – Live”
1. Everything Dies 6:06
2. My Girlfriend's Girlfriend 3:43
3. Are You Afraid / Gravitational Constant 7:14
4. Black Sabbath (Intro) / Christian Woman 8:35
5. Love You To Death 7:16
6. Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All) 9:11
7. Anesthesia 6:04
8. Christian Woman 7:58
9. Love You To Death 6:05
10. Kill You Tonight 9:47
Running Time: 71:59 min.

Total playing time: 149:29 min.

20th Anniversary Edition, the first European re-release of the sixth full-length studio album by legendary American Gothic/Doom Metal band.
The band's final studio album released through Roadrunner Records.
The album's title and content refer 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.
The album reached No. 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. "I Don't Wanna Be Me" was released as a promotional single, for which a music video was produced. "(We Were) Electrocute" was featured on the soundtrack to the 2003 horror film "Freddy vs. Jason".
Roadrunner Records/Rhino Entertainment Company, A Warner Music Group Company, 2003/1993/2024 (R2 726189 / 603497826650). Made in Germany.


Tracklist:

Disc One
1. Thir13teen 1:07
2. I Don't Wanna Be Me 5:08
3. Less Than Zero (<O) 5:25
4. Todd's Ship Gods (Above All Things) 4:10
5. I Like Goils 2:35
6. ...A Dish Best Served Coldly 11:47
7. How Could She? 7:36
8. Life Is Killing Me 7:13
9. Nettie 7:35
10. (We Were) Electrocute 6:37
11. IYDKMIGTHTKY (Gimme That) 6:20
12. Angry Inch 3:39
13. Anesthesia 6:41
14. Drunk In Paris 1:27
15. The Dream Is Dead 5:07
Running time: 82:27 min.

Disc Two
1. Out Of The Fire (Kane's Theme) 3:24
2. Suspended In Dusk 8:39
3. Blood & Fire (Out Of The Ashes Mix) 4:37
4. Black Sabbath 7:47
5. Cinnamon Girl (Extended Depression Mix) 3:54
6. Haunted (Per Version) 11:47
Running time: 40:08 min.

Total playing time: 122:35 min.

Re-release of the debut full-length studio album by legendary American Gothic/Thrash/Hardcore/Doom Metal band.
The album, originally titled "None More Negative" and released in 1990 under the band's former name Repulsion, launched the band's career.
"Slow, Deep And Hard" is a darkly humorous, semi-autobiographical album with tracks 1, 3, 4 and 7 based on a failed relationship of vocalist/bass guitarist Peter Steele. The album's other tracks are "Der Untermensch" (Steele's controversial critique of people, frequently immigrants, abusing the American welfare system), "Glass Walls of Limbo (Dance Mix)" (a facetiously titled Ambient Industrial soundscape) and "The Misinterpretation of Silence and its Disastrous Consequences" (a literal minute of silence).
In keeping with the band's notable humour, the album's cover artwork is a blurred image of sexual penetration.
Roadrunner Records, Inc., 1991/2013 (RO 9313-2). Made in Germany. Re-press.


Tracklist:
1. Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity 12:39
2. Der Untermensch 8:54
3. Xero Tolerance 7:46
4. Prelude To Agony 12:15
5. Glass Walls Of Limbo (Dance Mix) 6:44
6. The Misinterpretation Of Silence And It's Disastrous Consequences 1:04
7. Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 X 10⁻ Cm⁻³ Gm⁻¹ Sec⁻² 9:14
Total playing time: 58:36 min.

Roadrunner Records celebrates the legacies of some of most revered artists by releasing multi-disc boxsets, each including every album the band recorded for Roadrunner. Sets, feature each album in an individual CD paper-sleeve with original artwork, housed in a clamshell box. The albums are neatly packaged together in one place, giving the listener a blistering slice of Metal history, and an in-depth look at each band's evolution.
Type O Negative's Goth Metal sound grew from Thrashy beginnings over the course of several records until the 2010 death of band founder and vocalist Pete Steele. "The Complete Roadrunner Collection 1991-2003" collects the lion's share of the band's best-loved material, beginning with its morally questionable earliest albums "Slow, Deep and Hard" and the fake live album "The Origin Of The Feces". Transitioning from thickheaded misogyny and Shock Rock Metal tactics on these albums, the set includes the more sophisticated musicianship of 1993's "Bloody Kisses" and 1996's "October Rust" as well as latter-day albums "World Coming Down" and "Life Is Killing Me".
Roadrunner Records, 2013 (1686176162). Made in EU. First press.


Tracklist:

CD 1: Slow, Deep And Hard (1991)
1. Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity 12:39
2. Der Untermensch 8:54
3. Xero Tolerance 7:46
4. Prelude To Agony 12:15
5. Glass Walls Of Limbo (Dance Mix) 6:44
6. The Misinterpretation Of Silence And Its Disastrous Consequence 1:04
7. Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 X 10-8 CM-3 Gm-1 Sec-2 9:16





CD 2: The Origin Of The Feces (1992)
1. I Know You're Fucking Someone Else 15:02
2. Are You Afraid 2:13
3. Gravity 7:13
4. Pain 4:39
5. Kill You Tonight 2:16
6. Hey Pete 5:10
7. Kill You Tonight (Reprise) 6:29





CD 3: Bloody Kisses (1993)
1. Machine Screw 0:40
2. Christian Woman 8:56
3. Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All) 1:03
4. Fay Wray Come Out And Play 11:15
5. Kill All The White People 3:24
6. Summer Breeze 4:53
7. Set Me On Fire 3:29
8. Dark Side Of The Womb 0:28
9. We Hate Everyone 6:51
10. Bloody Kisses 10:56
11. 3.0.I.F. 2:06
12. Too Late: Frozen 7:50
13. Blood & Fire 4:28
14. Can't Lose You 6:08





CD 4: October Rust (1996)
1. Bad Ground 0:38
2. Are We On?  0:21
3. Love You To Death 7:08
4. Be My Druidess 5:25
5. Green Man 5:48
6. Red Water (Christmas Mourning) 6:48
7. My Girlfriend's Girlfriend 3:46
8. Die With Me 7:12
9. Burnt Flowers Fallen 6:09
10. In Praise Of Bacchus 7:36
11. Cinnamon Girl 4:00
12. The Glorious Liberation Of The People's Technocratic Republic Of Vinnland By The Combined Forces Of The United Territories Of Europa 1:07
13. Wolf Moon (Including Zoanthropic Paranoia) 6:37
14. Haunted 10:07
15. Hope It Wasn't Too Disappointing 0:09





CD 5: World Coming Down (1999)
1. Skip It 0:11
2. White Slavery 8:21
3. Sinus 0:53
4. Everyone I Love Is Dead 6:11
5. Who Will Save The Sane 6:41
6. Liver 1:42
7. World Coming Down 11:09
8. Creepy Green Light 6:55
9. Everithing Dies 7:43
10. Lung 1:35
11. Pyretta Blaze 7:03
12. All Hallows Eve 8:35
13. Day Tripper (Medley) 6:44





CD 6: Life Is Killing Me (2003)
1. Thir13teen 1:07
2. I Don't Wanna Be Me 5:08
3. Less Than Zero 5:25
4. Todd's Ship Gods (Above All Things) 4:10
5. I Like Goils 2:35
6. ...A Dish Better Served Coldly 7:13
7. How Could She 7:35
8. Life Is Killing Me 6:35
9. Nettie 4:46
10. (We Were) Elektrocute 6:38
11. Iydkmigthtky (Gimme That) 6:20
12. Angry Inch 3:39
13. Anesthesia 6:41
14. Drunk In Paris 1:27
15. The Dream Is Dead 5:09





Total playing time: 395:09 min.

30th Anniversary Edition, the first official re-release of the second full-length studio album by legendary American Gothic/Thrash/Hardcore/Doom Metal band.
Type O Negative has always had a strange and twisted sense of humour. But nowhere is this more obvious than on this album. They have given us some strange liner notes at times, but this album really is the go-to point if you want to tell someone how weird this band is.
The album was designed to mimic a live performance, with fake audience noise and comedic interruptions like a staged bomb threat, satirizing a previous tour controversy. The initial release featured an extreme close-up of an anus, reportedly belonging to frontman Peter Steele. Later reissues feature different cover art, such as a stylized "Dance of Death" painting.
Now, the craziest part about this album is that it is supposed to be a live album, because the band's label Roadrunner had it written in the contract that Type O Negative was to record a live album. However, the band allegedly took the money they were supposed to spend on producing the live album on cheap vodka instead. Realizing they needed to fulfil their contractual obligations, the band simply re-recorded their debut album, "Slow Deep And Hard", added a couple of songs and retitled some other songs and then added fake crowd noise… But they did not stop there. It would be too easy to simply add in crowd noise. No, Type O Negative added in chants of "You Suck!" and improvised a fight between Steele and the fans, with Steele yelling "You suck too" at one point in the album and then making fun of the crowd because he's getting paid to play, and the crowd had to pay to get in. At about the midway point, the band claimed it had to stop playing because there was a bomb threat in the concert hall. After a few seconds of silence, they began playing again…
Beyond the insanity of the fake crowd, the music is very impressive, and it does sound as if they are playing live. The first seven tracks are the fake concert, and then the band adds in a very interesting cover of the Black Sabbath classic "Paranoid" for the final track.
The musicianship is tight and is held together well despite the often changing tempos. Type O Negative will never be mistaken for an incredibly musically talented act. But that is okay, because the band plays just well enough to sound fine playing the style of music they play. They have always been able to write long, multipart epic songs and this has been their best musical quality. Here, for example, we have the fifteen-minute opener "I Know You're Fucking Someone Else", which lays the groundwork for the rest of the album. The band's style is a form of Gothic Metal, incorporating various influences such as Black Sabbath and The Beatles. They take those influences and slow them down and twist them to form a sound that is unlike any other band. The track "Hey Peter" is a rearranging of the Jimi Hendrix song "Hey Joe" about a jealous lover ready to kill his cheating girlfriend. Here, Peter Steele replaces the gun with an axe. The last track is a morosely slow adaptation of the Black Sabbath classic "Paranoid". Somehow, the band stretches it out more than twice as long as the original.
Overall, this is a very fun listen. The humour involved keeps things light and interesting, despite the very dark subject. At all, Type O Negative never did record a real live album.
Remastered re-release on a double Green/Black Marbled vinyl in gatefold cover features original censored cover art with peelable scratch n’ sniff sticker surprise. The release also includes Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" cover song as a bonus track, and an exclusive fold-out colour poster of the 1493 painting “The Dance of Death”.
Roadrunner Records, Inc./Warner Music Group/Run Out Groove, 1992/2022 (ROGV-171). Made In The Netherlands.


Tracklist:

Side One
1. I Know You're Fucking Someone Else 15:02
Side Two
1. Are You Afraid 2:13
2. Gravity 7:13
3. Pain 4:40
Running time: 29:08 min.

Side Three
1. Kill You Tonight 2:16
2. Hey Pete 5:10
3. Kill You Tonight (Reprise) 7:08
Side Four
1. Paranoid 7:20
Running time: 21:54 min.

Total playing time: 51:02 min.

The third re-release of the second full-length studio album by legendary American Gothic/Thrash/Hardcore/Doom Metal band.
Type O Negative has always had a strange and twisted sense of humour. But nowhere is this more obvious than on this album. They have given us some strange liner notes at times, but this album really is the go-to point if you want to tell someone how weird this band is.
The album was designed to mimic a live performance, with fake audience noise and comedic interruptions like a staged bomb threat, satirizing a previous tour controversy. The initial release featured an extreme close-up of an anus, reportedly belonging to frontman Peter Steele. Later reissues feature different cover art, such as a stylized "Dance of Death" painting.
Now, the craziest part about this album is that it is supposed to be a live album, because the band's label Roadrunner had it written in the contract that Type O Negative was to record a live album. However, the band allegedly took the money they were supposed to spend on producing the live album on cheap vodka instead. Realizing they needed to fulfil their contractual obligations, the band simply re-recorded their debut album, "Slow Deep And Hard", added a couple of songs and retitled some other songs and then added fake crowd noise… But they did not stop there. It would be too easy to simply add in crowd noise. No, Type O Negative added in chants of "You Suck!" and improvised a fight between Steele and the fans, with Steele yelling "You suck too" at one point in the album and then making fun of the crowd because he's getting paid to play, and the crowd had to pay to get in. At about the midway point, the band claimed it had to stop playing because there was a bomb threat in the concert hall. After a few seconds of silence, they began playing again…
Beyond the insanity of the fake crowd, the music is very impressive, and it does sound as if they are playing live. The first seven tracks are the fake concert, and then the band adds in a very interesting cover of the Black Sabbath classic "Paranoid" for the final track.
The musicianship is tight and is held together well despite the often changing tempos. Type O Negative will never be mistaken for an incredibly musically talented act. But that is okay, because the band plays just well enough to sound fine playing the style of music they play. They have always been able to write long, multipart epic songs and this has been their best musical quality. Here, for example, we have the fifteen-minute opener "I Know You're Fucking Someone Else", which lays the groundwork for the rest of the album. The band's style is a form of Gothic Metal, incorporating various influences such as Black Sabbath and The Beatles. They take those influences and slow them down and twist them to form a sound that is unlike any other band. The track "Hey Peter" is a rearranging of the Jimi Hendrix song "Hey Joe" about a jealous lover ready to kill his cheating girlfriend. Here, Peter Steele replaces the gun with an axe. The last track is a morosely slow adaptation of the Black Sabbath classic "Paranoid". Somehow, the band stretches it out more than twice as long as the original.
Overall, this is a very fun listen. The humour involved keeps things light and interesting, despite the very dark subject. At all, Type O Negative never did record a real live album.
Remastered reissue with a new artwork.
Roadrunner Records, Inc., 1992/1994/1997/2006 (RR 8762-2). Made In The Germany. Re-press.


Tracklist:
1. I Know You're Fucking Someone Else 15:02
2. Are You Afraid 2:13
3. Gravity 7:13
4. Pain 4:40
5. Kill You Tonight 2:16
6. Hey Pete (Traditional song cover) 5:10
7. Kill You Tonight (Reprise) 7:08
8. Paranoid (Black Sabbath cover) 7:20
Total playing time: 51:02 min.

Debut and only full-length album by Mexican Progressive Power/Folk Metal band.
7 songs of Mexican deep-obscure band, singing in English with a strong good lead vocal a-la Hansi Kürsch. Good work you to listen hurtling melodic Power that takes into account the indigenous melodies of Aztec civilization!
It's almost pure Power Metal, infused with some indigenous elements in the rhythm and also a return of the flute here and there, with Carlos G.T.’s high and a little peculiar (his timbre), but quite original voice over it. The whole undertaking is a little hampered by the sound, which lacks a bit of clarity and breathes more the air of the 80s, but at the same time it gives Tzompanti’s music some earthy authenticity that actually is a welcome change to the many sterile and slick productions of late.
Overall variety definitely is not a problem for band, as they cleverly vary speeds and intensity throughout and in-between the songs.
Tzompanti’s debut effort is a more than remarkable release from Mexico and should find the open ears of quite a few fans of Power Metal!
Awesome Mexican Power/Thrash/Progressive/Folk Metal for fans of Blind Guardian!!
Selfreleased, 2006. Made in Mexico.


Tracklist:
1. Clash in Mictlan     09:26 
2. Arriving to the Wall of Dreams     05:41 
3. The Truth Behind the Glory     07:04 
4. Servant of the Nation     08:48 
5. Behind the Shadows     04:04 
6. El Nacimiento del Colibrí     07:35
7. Warrior's Path     07:44 
Total playing time: 50:22

The seventeenth full-length studio album by legendary German Heavy Metal band.
One of the most elaborate concept albums the market has ever seen, combining U.D.O.’s hard rocking sound with a 60-piece orchestra, creating a wholly unique worldwide musical project!
“We Are One” was written in collaboration with the official Concert Band of the German Armed Forces (Musikkorps der Bundeswehr) under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Christoph Scheibling and is a wholly unique worldwide musical project. The album contains 15 new songs that have been developed and arranged by U.D.O. together with Christoph Scheibling. The two former Accept musicians, Stefan Kaufmann and Peter Baltes, have been part of the songwriting too – as well as the German Armed Forces´ composers Guido Rennert and Alexander Reuber
"We Are One" is one of the most elaborate concept albums the market has ever seen, not to be compared with the `Rock band meets orchestra‘ collaborations that already exist in the music world. The Hard Rocking sound of U.D.O. has not only been intensified by a 60-piece orchestra, but contains some unique arrangements that underline how characteristic yet versatile U.D.O. is. This project surprises the listener in every aspect, and is a project with a clear statement: "We Are One" is a critical reflection of a world in which we all leave our mark, and in which we all have to show responsibility.
Udo Dirkschneider about the message behind the songs: “We all live on this planet. No matter who we are or what we do, we all just have this one planet!”
AFM Records, a division of Soulfood Music Distribution, GmbH, 2020 (AFM 743-9). Made in Germany. First press.


Tracklist:
1. Pandemonium 5:27
2. We Are One 4:43
3. Love And Sin 7:11
4. Future Is The Reason Why 5:02
5. Children Of The World 6:35
6. Blindfold (The Last Defender) 4:19
7. Blackout 2:40
8. Mother Earth 4:10
9. Rebel Town 5:30
10. Natural Forces 3:28
11. Neon Diamond 5:45
12. Beyond Gravity 4:33
13. Here We Go Again 5:06
14. We Strike Back 3:52
15. Beyond Good And Evil 6:29
Total playing time: 74:50 min.

The second re-release of the fifth full-length studio album by legendary German Heavy Metal band.
The first time after six years, when Udo Dirkschneider put the band on hiatus and reunited with Accept, U.D.O. back with the new album!
Accept's drummer, Stefan Kaufmann, joined U.D.O. as a guitar player on this album. Guitarists Fitty Weinhold and Jürgen Graf (from Bullet) were hired as new members.
A great album filled with the best traditions of Heavy Metal!
Remastered re-release includes two live bonus tracks and video.
Breeze Music GmbH/BMG Ariola Hamburg GmbH/AFM Records, 1997/2012 (AFM 431-2). Made in Germany.
 

Tracklist:
1. Independence Day 6:04
2. Two Faced Woman 3:40
3. Desparate Balls 3:57
4. The Punisher 4:47
5. Devil's Dice 4:33
6. Bad Luck 4:57
7. Preachers of the Night 4:47
8. Hate Stinger 5:01
9. Braindead Hero 5:15
10. Pray for the Hunted 4:03
11. The Healer 6:11
Bonus:
12. Independance Day (Live) 5:55
13. Mad Dogs And Loaded Guns (Demo) 5:28
14. Warchild (Demo) 5:59
15. Independance Day (Video)
Total playing time: 70:37 min.

The fourth re-release of the debut full-length studio album by legendary German Heavy Metal band.
Fans of Accept should enjoy the first solo album from lead singer Udo Dirkschneider, which employs all the crushing power of that band's Teutonic Metal sound without the latent Pop influences.
Udo's unmistakable howl leads the charge on “Animal House”, while his backing band does an uncanny job of copying Accept's immaculate Metal crunch. Of course, the fact that all the songs were written by Accept and producer Deaffy may have something to do with the familiarity of the sound. With killer cuts like "Lay Down The Law", "Black Widow" and the title track, Udo Dirkschneider and co are out to prove that their dominance in the Heavy Metal world is no fluke.
U.D.O. strikes terror into the hearts of false Metal prophets by releasing arguably the best Heavy Metal album in the past decade!  This is really one of the best U.D.O.'s albums, if not the best!!
25th Anniversary Edition remastered re-release includes three live bonus tracks and two videos.
Breeze Music GmbH/BMG Ariola Hamburg GmbH/AFM Records, 1987/2013 (AFM 427-2). Made in Germany.


Tracklist:
1. Animal House 4:22 
2. Go Back To Hell 4:35
3. They Want War 4:13
4. Black Widow 4:34
5. In The Darkness 4:07
6. Lay Down The Law 3:50
7. We Want It Loud 4:09
8. Hot Tonight 4:46
9. Warrior 4:25
10. Coming Home 3:44
11. Run For Cover 4:49
Bonus Tracks
12. Animal House (Live) 3:57 
13. They Want War (Live) 5:42 
14. In The Darkness (Live) 6:07
Total playing time: 63:20 min.
15. They Want War (Video) 4:25
16. Go Back To Hell (Video) 4:02

The first compilation album by legendary German Heavy Metal band.
17-song compilation featuring the best tracks from first six albums plus one unreleased track!
Track 17, "The Key", is a bonus track and was previously released only as bonus track to Japanese edition of "No Limits" album.
GUN Records, 1999 (74321 68770 2 GUN 177). Made in Germany. First press. 


Tracklist:
1. Animal House 4:19
2. Break The Rules 4:00 
3. Heart Of Gold 5:00 
4. Two Faced Woman 3:38 
5. Metal Eater 3:42 
6. Desperate Balls 3:54
7. Future Land 5:13 
8. Independance Day 6:01 
9. They Want War 4:12 
10. In The Darkness  4:03 
11. Freelance Man 4:24 
12. No Limits 4:01 
13. Timebomb 3:57 
14. Lovemachine 5:24 
15. I'm A Rebel 2:19 
16. Faceless World 6:31 
Bonus Track:
17. The Key 4:05
Total playing time: 74:32 min.

Remastered re-release of the first compilation album by legendary German Heavy Metal band.
17-song compilation featuring the best tracks from first six albums plus one unreleased track.
Track 17, "The Key", is a bonus track and was previously released only as bonus track to Japanese edition of "No Limits" album.
Gun Records/BMG/AFM Records, 1999/2013 (AFM 434-2). Made in Germany.


Tracklist:
1. Animal House 4:19
2. Break The Rules 4:00 
3. Heart Of Gold 5:00 
4. Two Faced Woman 3:38 
5. Metal Eater 3:42 
6. Desperate Balls 3:54
7. Future Land 5:13 
8. Independance Day 6:01 
9. They Want War 4:12 
10. In The Darkness  4:03 
11. Freelance Man 4:24 
12. No Limits 4:01 
13. Timebomb 3:57 
14. Lovemachine 5:24 
15. I'm A Rebel 2:19 
16. Faceless World 6:31 
17. The Key 4:05
Total playing time: 74:32 min.

The third compilation album by legendary German Heavy Metal band.
The ultimate 25th Anniversary collection of 25 new and unreleased songs, rare tracks & remixes!
Think Udo Dirkschneider and you think Accept. So it comes as quite a shock to realize that U.D.O. the band are in the process of celebrating an amazing 25 years together. To commemorate the fact, the aptly titled "Celebrator" combines some of the band's rarest tracks from throughout the years, with remixed previous bonus tracks, B sides, collaborations, and a trio of previously unreleased songs making for a whistle-stop tour of what U.D.O. the man and the band are all about. Famed for the classical styled pre-Power Metal, Dirkschneider and Accept forged back in the day, U.D.O. the band have seldom strayed too far from the bristling, Germanic Metal that has served the test of time so well. However, as this collection ably demonstrates, the odd side-step has occurred, although sometimes with varying degrees of success.
For die-hard fans, it will be the three unreleased tracks that cause the most excitement here, with "Tallyman", "The Silencer" and "Artificialized" from the "Rev-Raptor", "Dominator" and "Mastercutor" album sessions respectively, proving to be excellent songs, every bit as good as those that made the cut on these releases. However, look further afield, and some of the tracks that were initially available as bonus inclusions across a whole host of releases show up remarkably well. "Bleeding Heart" offers more groove than your average U.D.O. track, "Systematic Madness" is the type of stomper that Udo's mad bark is perfect for, while the duet with Doro, "Dancing With An Angel" is a remarkably impressive power ballad that many a Melodic Rock giant would cancel their next poodle perm for! Then there are the real surprises, such as the oddly unnerving piano version of the Accept classic "Balls to the Wall", a crackling, electric take of "X-T-C", a track that initially featured on the Udo-less Accept album "In Heat" and the excellent cover version of the Judas Priest classic "Metal Gods". Add to that some interesting collaborations with Lordi - "They Only Come Out At Night", Faktor2 - "Platchet Soldat" and Hammerfall - "Head Over Heels", as well as an extremely loose take on "Born To Be Wild" from 1983 with NWOBHM act Raven and this really is an eclectic, entertaining set!
Unless you are a U.D.O. completist, it would be tough to call "Celebrator" essential. However, as a snapshot of a legend of the Metal genre doing what he does best, this double disc set is still a cracking compilation!!
AFM Records, a division of Soulfood Music Distribution GmbH, 2012 (AFM 407-9). Made in Germany. Pressed in Austria. First press.


Tracklist:

Disc 1
1. Stormbreaker (remix of the "Rev-Raptor" Japan bonus track) 3:28
2. Tallyman (previously unreleased track from the "Rev-Raptor" recording sessions) 4:20
3. Run! (remix of the "Thundervision" DVD bonus track) 6:35
4. Free Or Rebellion (remix of the "Leatherhead" single bonus track) 4:43
5. Bleeding Heart (remix of the "Dominator" Japan bonus track) 2:56
6. The Silencer (previously unreleased track from the "Dominator" recording sessions) 4:20
7. Bodyworld (remix of the "Infected" single bonus track) 4:43
8. Systematic Madness (remix of the "Infected" single bonus track) 3:32
9. Head Over Heels (HAMMERFALL feat. Udo Dirkschneider) 4:34
10. Balls To The Wall (piano version) 3:44
11. Artificialized (previously unreleased track from the "Mastercutor" recording sessions) 4:08
12. They Only Come Out At Night (LORDI feat. Udo Dirkschneider) 3:40
13. Streets Of Sin (remix of the "The Wrong Side Of Midnight" single bonus track) 3:03
Running time: 53:46 min.

Disc 2
1. Tears Of A Clown (orchestral version) 4:19
2. Man A King Ruler (remix of the "Mastercutor" Japan bonus track) 3:34
3. Hardcore Lover (remix of the "24/7" single bonus track) 4:46
4. Scream Killers (remix of the "24/7" single bonus track) 4:18
5. Platchet Soldat (feat. Faktor2 / remix with national russian artist) 5:49
6. Borderline ("Thunderball" Japan bonus track) 4:11
7. Dancing With An Angel (feat. Doro / remix from the "Man And Machine" album) 4:31
8. X-T-C (remix from the "A Tribute To ACCEPT Vol. 2" album) 3:51
9. Azrael (remix from the "No Limits" album) 5:31
10. The Key (remix of the "No Limits" Japan bonus track) 4:05
11. Metal Gods (from the "A Tribute To Judas Priest" album / Judas Priest cover) 4:07
12. Born To Be Wild (Raven feat. Udo Dirkschneider / Steppenwolf cover) 3:26
Running time: 52:28 min.

Total playing time: 106:14 min.

The fifteenth full-length studio album by legendary German Heavy Metal band.
The last album to feature drummer Francesco Jovino as well as guitarist Kasperi Heikkinen.
"Decadent" continues the sizzling streak of the band, coming hot on the heels of 2013’s excellent "Steelhammer". This new record offers more of the same, and for a band like U.D.O. that’s not a problem at all – Udo Dirkschneider and his band of dogs just keeps on ploughing on offering up timeless melodic Metal featuring robust percussive slams, searing hot solos of majesty and a bass that rumbles like an earthquake.
This time round we get 12 songs delivered with such a clinical passion that after one has sat through a U.D.O. album, it’s so difficult to slap on anything else. These guys have marched into the modern age like a bulldozer; a Metallic beast happy to strap on extra armour of sheen, but always able to drag its victims back to the times when metal was a truly formidable animal. How U.D.O. has bridged the gap between eras is commendable, and this is showcased on this latest offering by way of some truly fantastic layers of emotion.
"Decadent" is one of U.D.O.’s most intriguing and diverse albums. The boys are back in their old routine of cracking heads, but this time there’s an element of more subtle sadism as they crank up the speakers and tear off the years! In fact, Udo Dirkschneider and company have never sounded so refreshed!!
AFM Records, a division of Soulfood Music Distribution GmbH, 2015 (AFM 503-2). Made in Germany. Pressed in Austria. First press.


Tracklist:
1. Speeder 3:44
2. Decadent 4:48
3. House Of Fake 4:25
4. Mystery 4:35
5. Pain 5:10
6. Secrets In Paradise 4:59
7. Meaning Of Life 4:33
8. Breathless 5:19
9. Under Your Skin 4:22
10. Untouchable 5:08
11. Rebels Of The Night 4:40
12. Words In Flame 7:35
Total playing time: 59:18 min.

The twelfth full-length studio album by legendary German Heavy Metal band.
The '80s officially ended on January 1, 1990, but for Metal and Hard Rock fans, the early ‘90s felt a lot like the ‘80s and "Dominator" is a 2008/2009 recording that finds former Accept frontman Udo Dirkschneider continuing to party like it's 1985. Like many other albums that Dirkschneider and his band U.D.O. have recorded, "Dominator" finds the veteran headbanger stubbornly clinging to '80s-style Heave Metal. But the fact that "Dominator" sounds so dated by late-2000s standards is not necessarily a bad thing - certainly not if one still has a passionate craving for pre-'90s Metal. "Heavy Metal Heaven", "Stillness of Time" and other fist-pumping tracks don't break any new ground for Dirkschneider, but they're solid and inspired nonetheless. After all these years, he still belts out old-school Metal with plenty of conviction, and he never sounds the least bit bored on this 44-minute CD. If Dirkschneider had grown bored with this type of material, it would show. But that isn't the case at all. His passion and intensity remain. So his refusal to change with the times is probably for the best!
Headbangers who still treasure the albums that Accept, Judas Priest, and AC/DC recorded in the ‘80s will find that "Dominator" is a worthwhile addition to U.D.O.'s catalogue!!
Enhanced CD features “Black And White” video clip.
AFM Records GmbH, 2009 (AFM 258-2). Made in Germany. Pressed in Austria. First press.


Tracklist:
1. The Bogeyman 4:04
2. Dominator 4:45
3. Black And White 4:09
4. Infected 3:35
5. Heavy Metal Heaven 4:21
6. Doom Ride 5:21
7. Stillness Of Time 6:31
8. Devil's Rendezvous 3:35
9. Speed Demon 4:04
10. Whispers In The Dark 4:28
Total playing time: 44:53 min.