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About Love You to Death

"Love You to Death" is a track by American gothic metal band Type O Negative, featured on their 1996 album October Rust. The album marked a shift toward a more melodic, ballad-heavy sound compared to the band's heavier doom metal work. For electric guitar players, the song offers an accessible entry point into Type O Negative's signature dark, slow-moving chord progressions and thick, downtuned tone.

  • Type O Negative's heavily downtuned guitars are central to their sound, learning this song is a good introduction to low-tuning techniques.
  • October Rust features more ballads than previous Type O Negative albums, making its guitar parts more spacious and chord-focused than riff-driven.
  • The album October Rust also includes a cover of Neil Young's 'Cinnamon Girl', showing the band's range of guitar influences.

How to Play Love You to Death

Tuning: Drop D · Key: D minor · Tempo: 80 BPM

The drop D tuning lets you fret the low power chords with a single finger, which is central to the heavier riffing here. At 80 bpm the slow tempo leaves every note exposed, so timing, vibrato, and dynamics matter more than raw speed.

Loop each section and focus on clean, even timing rather than speed, with the metronome at 80 BPM.

Gibson SG Standard
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Gibson SG Standard

Kenny Hickey's SG Standard provides the lightweight, thin-necked platform essential for Type O Negative's extreme B-standard tunings without sacrificing sustain. Its set-neck construction and stock humbuckers deliver the warm, woolly character that defines their cavernous doom-goth tone.

Marshall JCM800
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Marshall JCM800

The JCM800's high-gain tube topology, pushed to 7-8 on the dial, generates the scooped-mid aggression at the core of Type O Negative's heavy riffing and crushing low-end saturation. This amp's responsiveness to pickup output makes it ideal for their passive humbucker-driven signal chain.

Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier
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Mesa/Boogie Dual Rectifier

The Dual Rectifier's thick, compressed low-end response complements the JCM800 for even heavier saturation in Type O Negative's doom passages, adding harmonic density that preserves note definition in extreme tunings. Its dual-channel design provides versatility between crushing rhythms and textured clean tones.

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