October Rust
October Rust is the fourth studio album by Type O Negative. It was released in 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".
Track listing
All tracks are written by Peter Steele, except where noted.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Bad Ground" | 0:38 |
| 2. | Untitled | 0:21 |
| 3. | "Love You to Death" | 7:08 |
| 4. | "Be My Druidess" | 5:25 |
| 5. | "Green Man" | 5:47 |
| 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" (Neil Young cover) | 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. | Untitled | 0:08 |
| Total length: | 72:49 | |
Credits
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
Reception
October Rust was well received by critics. In 2017, former Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward ranked October Rust as one of his favorite Metal albums of all time.
