TYPE O TESTS POSITIVE FOR GOTHIC ROCK SOUND.(PREVIEW)

Byline: GREG HAYMES Staff writer

Merging melodic pop songcraft with gothic-rock tone and imagery, Type O Negative layers it all with a base of sludgy heavy metal. It's a unique, thrilling sound with Peter Steele's distorted wall of bass and fell-to-the-bottom-of-the-well vocals underpinned by the ominous keyboard playing of co-producer Josh Silver.

The Brooklyn-based band made its debut five years ago with ``Slow, Deep and Hard'' and followed it up with their controversial '92 album.

Type O Negative seemed about as far from national rock stardom as they could possibly get, but they soon found themselves climbing up the charts with their third album …