Type O Negative‘s Peter Steele was one of many best musicians, singers and songwriters who ever walked this earth. Although it has been greater than a decade since Peter left us, far too quickly, the legacy of Peter and Kind O Damaging continues to develop. There’ll by no means be a alternative for Peter. Not even shut. Definitely there are some bands who clearly took/take their cues from Kind O, for instance Woods of Ypres (which was the brainchild of David Gold, who additionally died far too younger), however none but have risen to the extent of straight up Kind O Damaging worship that comes by the hands of the mysterious new act, Neon Nightmare.
We do not know a lot about Neon Nightmare apart from the truth that this particular person (assuming it is one individual) desires to create a tribute-like expertise to the Drab 4 with out being a canopy band. Definitely Kind O cowl bands exist, reminiscent of Useless Once more, however Neon Nightmare performs a singular card right here, straddling the liminal house as one thing between a tribute band, a parody and, maybe, a clone.
The primary single launched by Neon Nightmare was “Misplaced Silver.” Proper from the get-go you are going to hear shades of “Love You to Loss of life” from Kind O‘s legendary October Rust report. There’s slightly “September Solar” in there as properly about six minutes in. Even a touch of “Anesthesia” within the keys right here about 45 seconds in as properly, which is ironic, given the music title, “Misplaced Silver” and the truth that Josh Silver was the famed keyboardist for Kind O.
“It is All Over (For You)” sounds a fantastic deal like “Inexperienced Man.” “LATW2TG” goes to remind you of “An Ode to Locksmiths.” “She’s Drowning” will carry again ideas of “Be My Druidess.” The resemblances are uncanny, by design, it seems.
Neon Nightmare trades Kind O‘s well-known Pantone Inexperienced 369 for an unknown shade of blue, and the band’s merch parodies Kind O‘s merch from again within the day. The whole lot about this band is by-product, however for me, that is okay. I do know I will by no means hear music from Peter and Kind O Damaging once more. And with this notion, Peter may say “I can not consider how merciless life is.” So given the truth that Peter will solely reside on in our hearts, I will take Neon Nightmare. Whereas the keys do not fairly sound as full as Silver’s and the vocals are near Peter – however not fairly there, I can not assist however to actually just like the songs on this report.
In the event you’ve been following the web chatter about Neon Nightmare (and there may be a lot of this), there’s been a substantial amount of hypothesis precisely who’s behind this band. Is it former members of Kind O? Is it Youtuber Dennis Pauna (who does a tremendous Peter imitation). Is it a mixture of each? Is it another person? Neon Nightmare‘s label is retaining this beneath wraps. And in the event you’re questioning if I do know who it’s, I do not. However I do know this – whereas Light Desires isn’t any substitute for Kind O, I will definitely take it.
