The Origin of the Feces is the second studio album by the gothic metal band Type O Negative, released in May 12, 1992. 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 humor into their often gloomy music.
The original cover of the album has a close-up of Steele‘s anus including a feces-scented scratch and sniff square. This was changed for the reissue two years later, to a green and black version of the 1493 Michael Wolgemut painting The Dance of Death. The album’s title is a play on Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.
Tracklist:
- I Know You’re Fucking Someone Else
- Are You Afraid
- Gravity
- Pain
- Kill You Tonight
- Hey Pete
- Kill You Tonight (Reprise)
- Paranoid
Type O Negative
Peter Steele: lead vocals, bass guitar
Kenny Hickey: backing vocals, co-lead vocals (on “Hey Pete”), electric guitar
Josh Silver: backing vocals, keyboards, sound effects
Sal Abruscato: drums, percussion
Johnny Kelly: drums, percussion (on “Paranoid”)
Peter Steele (January 4, 1962 – April 14, 2010).
