Type O Negative Bloody Kisses: Suspended in Dusk (30th Anniversary) 2LP (Green & Black Mixed Vinyl)

1993 was a year of change for Type O Negative. Not only was it the year that things started to connect as the world embraced their dark textures and dark humor (despite the band's best efforts to upset people at every turn), but it was also the year of sonic and textural change for the band. Peter had definite loves and roots in the metal/hardcore world as well as the goth world, and you could hear them both on Bloody Kisses. Peter was evolving, and even though Bloody Kisses was working, he wanted to lean even more into his goth side and made the label re-issue the album with some changes. Gone were the more metal tracks ("Kill All the White People" and "We Hate Everyone") and added was the track "Suspended in Dusk."

The packaging of this release was altered with a different cover from the same photo shoot as well as more gothic imagery being added, and the track listing was re-ordered as per Peter's vision. In honor of the 30th anniversary - for the first time ever on vinyl is the "Suspended in Dusk" version of Bloody Kisses.

Though it sounds like a funeral, Bloody Kisses' airy melodicism and '90s-style irony actually breathed new life into the flagging goth metal genre, and the album is an often overlooked forerunner to alternative metal's limited appropriation of goth style.