So what are the Goth metallers in Type O Negative hoping to accomplish when album number 5 arrives this summer?

"Our next album, 'World Coming Down,' is a pathetic attempt to try and regain the minimal success we have since lost," frontman Peter Steele offered with tongue planted firmly in cheek.

Maybe not, but the band does seem to have a more stripped-down agenda this time around. As we first reported last month, the band is holed up in a studio in its native Brooklyn recording the album (see "Type O Negative Bringing Things 'Down' On New Album"). Those close to the production say the new record forgoes the lush production found on 1996's "October Rust" in favor of a heavier, more bare-knuckled sound reminiscent of TON's 1993 album "Bloody Kisses."

Steele and company are producing the album themselves, and hope to have the album finished by the end of May and in stores by mid-August.

The band has yet to select which songs will appear on the album, but here are a few of the tracks they've recorded so far:

  • "Everything Dies"
  • "Everyone I Love Is Dead"
  • "Summer Snow"
  • "Get Out Of My Dreams"
  • "Green Light"
  • "World Coming Down"
  • "Don't Be Afraid"
  • "Isn't He Strange?"