October Rust

October Rust
Studio album by Type O Negative
Released	August 20, 1996
Genre	Gothic metal, doom metal
Length	72:52
Label	Roadrunner
Producer	Josh Silver, Peter Steele
Type O Negative chronology
Bloody Kisses (1993) October Rust (1996) World Coming Down (1999)

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October Rust is the fourth album by Type O Negative. It was released in 1996, and has a more gothic rock feel than earlier albums. This is the first album to feature Johnny Kelly credited as the band's drummer, though in a 2007 interview with Dave Manack for dreadcentral.com keyboardist and co-producer, Josh Silver confessed that all the drum parts on "October Rust" and the band's two subsequent studio albums (World Coming Down and Life is Killing Me) were programmed. October Rust has more ballads and less of the punk/metal sound of previous or subsequent albums. It also features a (much heavier) cover of Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl."

It is the second of their albums to introduce the "joke intro"; in this case, the intro, "Bad Ground", is 38 seconds of low-level buzzing, meant to sound as if the listener's speakers are incorrectly plugged in. The second and fifteenth tracks are humorous untitled 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/segues to a few of the songs, like "Green Man", "Red Water", and "Haunted".

"October Rust" sees the band use a drum machine for the first time, although Johnny Kelly is still credited as drummer. Studio drums would not reappear until 2007's Dead Again.

The third track "Love You to Death" was covered by Polish gothic/progressive metal band Moonlight.

Track listing

All songs written by Peter Steele except where noted.

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) - 4:00
12. "The Glorious Liberation of the People's Technocratic Republic of Vinland 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

Credits

• Peter Steele – lead vocals, bass guitar, additional guitar
• Kenny Hickey – guitars, vocals
• Josh Silver – keyboards, organ, backing vocals
• Johnny Kelly – drums

Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1996	The Billboard 200	42
	Norwegian Record Charts	15
	Finland's Official List	7