October Rust is the fourth studio album by Type O Negative. It was released in August 20, 1996. This is the first album with Johnny Kelly credited as the band’s drummer, although programmed drums are used on the album. October Rust has more ballads and less of the doom metal sound of previous or subsequent albums. It also features a cover of Neil Young‘s “Cinnamon Girl”.
It is the first of the band’s albums with a “joke intro”; in this case, “Bad Ground”, which is 38 seconds of low-level buzzing, meant to sound as if one or more audio leads is incorrectly plugged into the input jacks of an amplifier. Tracks 2 and 15 are humorous untitled spoken word intros and outros to the album, respectively, with the band downplaying the recording of the album. Another production technique employed on the album is the use of very abrupt endings and segues to a few of the songs, heard on the tracks “Green Man”, “Red Water”, and “Haunted”.
Tracklist:
- Bad Ground
- Untitled
- Love You to Death
- Be My Druidess
- Green Man
- Red Water (Christmas Mourning)
- My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend
- Die with Me
- Burnt Flowers Fallen
- In Praise of Bacchus
- Cinnamon Girl” (Neil Young cover)
- The Glorious Liberation of the People’s Technocratic Republic of Vinnland by the Combined Forces of the United Territories of Europa”
- Wolf Moon (Including Zoanthropic Paranoia)
- Haunted
- Untitled
Type O Negative
Peter Steele: lead vocals, bass guitar
Kenny Hickey: backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Josh Silver: backing vocals, keyboards, synthesizer, sound effects, programming
Johnny Kelly: drum machine, percussion
Additional personnel
Val Ium: backing vocals (on “In Praise of Bacchus”)
Production
Mike Marciano: recording engineer
George Marino: mastering
Sagmeister Inc.: cover art
Tim Fitzharris: photography
Joseph Cultice: photography
Tobias Frere Jones: typography
Laura Michaels: design
Peter Steele (January 4, 1962 – April 14, 2010).
