World Coming Down

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Alternative Press	^[2]
Chronicles of Chaos	(10/10) ^[3]
The Daily Vault	B ^[4]
Q	^[2]
Robert Christgau	^[5]
Spin	(7/10) ^[2]
Teraz Rock	^[6]

World Coming Down is the fifth album by the Brooklyn band Type O Negative.

Overview

As with the band's previous album, October Rust, this album also has a "joke intro": in this case, the intro, appropriately titled "Skip It", is 11 seconds of staccato band noise, meant to sound as if the listener's CD player is skipping. Cassette versions had the noise of a tape being "eaten" by the tape player. The track ends with what is presumably the guitarist, Kenny Hickey, shouting, "Sucker!"

The first song, "White Slavery", deals with cocaine addiction. Two other songs, "Everyone I Love Is Dead" and "Everything Dies", touch on the difficulties of watching family members and loved ones die. Another track, "Who Will Save the Sane?" incorporates, among other oddities, Peter Steele reciting the number pi truncated to 9 decimal places (3.141592653). The album contains three "soundscape" tracks, which are named after internal organs, as segues between songs. Each of these songs is intended to suggest the possibilities of the deaths band members may suffer: "Sinus" as death from cocaine use, "Liver" as death through alcohol abuse and "Lung" as death from smoking. In an ironic foreboding, Steele once told a close friend that he could not bear to listen to "Sinus" after it was mixed and completed, because the sound of the heartbeat escalating to its furious pace after the cocaine-snorting sound effect actually drove him to the point of an anxiety attack because of its realism. Also included, at the end of the CD, is yet another cover song, this one a medley of three Beatles songs. An additional song recorded during the album sessions, "12 Black Rainbows," was issued as the b-side for the "Everything Dies" single;^[7] later, it was included on the compilation album The Least Worst Of with two other outtakes from the same sessions ("It's Never Enough" and "Stay Out of My Dreams").^[8]

The reversed vocal technique of backmasking is used in several places on the album; some segments are more audibly apparent than others. In particular, backmasking during the intro section of "Creepy Green Light", which was originally titled "Spooky Green Light", refers to a third-person "spell" of a friend's intention to be reunited with a dead spouse.

When Type O Negative was still intact, the band had mixed opinions about the music on World Coming Down. The keyboard player and producer Josh Silver felt that the music was strong, while the bass guitarist and principal songwriter Peter Steele had said the songs were too strongly connected to an uncomfortable period in his life. Live shows performed since the initial tour to support World Coming Down usually had very few, if any, selections from the album in the set list. However, the band often played the song "World Coming Down" in its entirety during the Dead Again tour.

Track listing

All songs written by Peter Steele, except where noted.

No.	Title	Length
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"	11:10
8.	"Creepy Green Light"	6:56
9.	"Everything Dies"	7:43
10.	"Lung"	1:36
11.	"Pyretta Blaze"	6:57
12.	"All Hallows Eve"	8:35
13.	"Day Tripper (medley)" (The Beatles cover) I. Day Tripper (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) II. If I Needed Someone (George Harrison) III. Day Tripper (revisited) IV. I Want You (She's So Heavy) (Lennon, McCartney)	7:02

Credits

Peter Steele – lead vocals, bass guitar, additional guitars & keyboards
Josh Silver – keyboards, backing vocals
Kenny Hickey – guitars, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "World Coming Down" and "All Hallows Eve"
Johnny Kelly – drums, backing vocals

Charts

Year	Chart	Position
1999	The Billboard 200	39
	The German Album Top 100	3
	Norwegian Record Charts	16
	Finland's Official List	3^[9]

References

↑ AllMusic review
1 2 3 Album reviews at CD Universe
↑ Chronicles of Chaos review
↑ The Daily Vault review
↑ Robert Christgau Consumer Guide
↑
↑ ""Type O Negative - Everything Dies at Discogs"". Discogs. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
↑ ""Type O Negative - The Least Worst Of (CD) at Discogs"". Discogs. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
↑ "Finnish TOP40 chart: Type O Negative - Word Coming Down" (in Finnish).

Type O Negative

Peter Steele Josh Silver Kenny Hickey Johnny Kelly Sal Abruscato

Studio albums	Slow, Deep and Hard The Origin of the Feces Bloody Kisses October Rust World Coming Down Life Is Killing Me Dead Again

Compilations	The Least Worst Of The Best of Type O Negative

Videos	For When It Rains After Dark Symphony for the Devil

Singles	"Unsuccessfully Coping with the Natural Beauty of Infidelity" "Black No.1 (Little Miss Scare-All)" "Christian Woman" "Summer Breeze" "Love You to Death" "My Girlfriend's Girlfriend" "In Praise of Bacchus" "Cinnamon Girl" "Pictures of Matchstick Men" "Creepy Green Light" "Everyone I Love Is Dead" "Everything Dies" "I Don't Wanna Be Me" "Life Is Killing Me" "Santana Medley" "The Profit of Doom" "September Sun"

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