Everything Dies
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Everything Dies is a single by American gothic metal
band Type O Negative
from their 1999 release World Coming Down
. It was a successful single for the band making #37 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks
.
As much of the material on the album, this song features little of the tongue-in-cheek humour the band was known for to that point: The lyrics detail the inevitable death of a close person, and the music, while mostly featuring a slightly uplifting major-chord verse and chorus, features a heavy oppressing minor-chord intro with inarticulate chanting, and a crushing last minute with gothic choirs, finishing the song abruptly without a closure.
A music video was filmed for the song, featuring the band and singer Peter Steele
in various settings, as well as footage of a family having dinner with the members of the family slowly fading away.
Gothic metal
Gothic metal or goth metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that combines the aggression of doom metal with the dark melancholy of gothic rock. The music of gothic metal is diverse with bands known to adopt the gothic approach to different styles of heavy metal music...
band Type O Negative
Type O Negative
Type O Negative was a gothic metal band from Brooklyn, New York City. The band also incorporated elements of doom metal and thrash metal. Their dramatic lyrical emphasis on themes of romance, depression, and death resulted in the nickname "The Drab Four"...
from their 1999 release World Coming Down
World Coming Down
World Coming Down is the fifth album by Brooklyn band Type O Negative. Even though the band has often expressed dark themes through their music, the lyrical content of this album is markedly morbid.-Overview:...
. It was a successful single for the band making #37 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks
Mainstream Rock Tracks
Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks is a ranking in Billboard magazine of the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that includes stations that play primarily rock music. Modern rock tracks are counted in the Alternative Songs chart.This chart began with the March 21, 1981, issue...
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As much of the material on the album, this song features little of the tongue-in-cheek humour the band was known for to that point: The lyrics detail the inevitable death of a close person, and the music, while mostly featuring a slightly uplifting major-chord verse and chorus, features a heavy oppressing minor-chord intro with inarticulate chanting, and a crushing last minute with gothic choirs, finishing the song abruptly without a closure.
A music video was filmed for the song, featuring the band and singer Peter Steele
Peter Steele
Peter Thomas Ratajczyk , better known by his stage name Peter Steele, was the lead singer, bassist, and composer for the gothic metal band Type O Negative...
in various settings, as well as footage of a family having dinner with the members of the family slowly fading away.