Album of the Day

“I guess I am going through some sort of midlife crisis being 41 years old now,” said Type O Negative frontman Peter Steele of LIFE IS KILLING ME. “And all the things I took for granted, my health, my life, people I love dying, people I loved walking away ... It is like my dreams are dead.” If the dark outlook of the band’s final album for Roadrunner is par for the course, so is its anarchic humor and sense of melody, helping lift the 2003 set into the Top 40 on Billboard’s album chart. Bleak as their themes may be, tracks like “I Don't Wanna Be Me” and “Less Than Zero (<0)” boast punchy arrangements and instrumental drive that just won’t quit. LIFE IS KILLING ME offers an exhilarating point of entry to the music of these goth metal greats.