October Rust

October Rust
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 20, 1996
Genre
Length72:49
LabelRoadrunner
ProducerJosh Silver, Peter Steele
Type O Negative chronology
Bloody Kisses
(1993)
October Rust
(1996)
World Coming Down
(1999)
Singles from October Rust
  1. "My Girlfriend's Girlfriend"
    Released: 1996
  2. "Love You to Death"
    Released: 1996
  3. "In Praise of Bacchus"
    Released: 1997
  4. "Cinnamon Girl"
    Released: 1997
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
Chicago Tribune[2]
Chronicles of Chaos8/10[4]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal8/10[5]
Metal Storm7.5/10[6]

October Rust is the fourth studio album by Type O Negative. It was released in 1996.[7] 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".

  1. ^ "'Bloody Kisses': 10 Things You Didn't Know Type O Negative's Masterpiece". Revolver. August 16, 2018. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  2. ^ a b Golemis, Dean (September 19, 1996). "Type O NegativeOctober Rust (Roadrunner) (star) (star)..." Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on May 24, 2022. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  3. ^ Huey, Steve. "Type O Negative - October Rust Album Reviews, Songs & More". AllMusic. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  4. ^ Bromley, Adrian (October 11, 1996). "Type O Negative - October Rust : Review". Chronicles of Chaos. Retrieved April 17, 2023.
  5. ^ Popoff, Martin (2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 464. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
  6. ^ "Type O Negative - October Rust review". Metal Storm. Retrieved October 2, 2018.
  7. ^ Jenkins, Mark (October 25, 1996). "TYPE O: GETTING LESS NEGATIVE". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved October 2, 2015.