Glass Walls of Limbo

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"**Glass Walls of Limbo**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their first album *Slow, Deep and Hard*, released in 1991. The track comprises of various sounds mixed together, which give the impression of a slow march to hell while dragging heavy chains repeating constantly over choir-like vocals, sometimes interrupted by raspy shrieks. The vocal parts form a polyphony. The song can be considered the most unusual track of the album. The track title suggests that on the other side of the walls made of glass is Limbo, which in Catholic theology was a part of Hell hypothesized to harbor those who died under Original Sin.

Of the six actual tracks on the album, "Glass Walls of Limbo" is the only one that is not split into cantos. Its title is an example of the band's humour, given the nature of the music.

## Personnel

**Group performers**

* **Peter Steele** – choir
* Kenny Hickey – choir
* Sal Abruscato – voice

**Session performers**

* The Bensonhoist Lesbian Choir – choir

**Enginucers**

* Mike Marciano – engineering, mixing
* Josh Silver – sound effects
* Michael Sarsfield – mastering
* Type O Negative – production

## Links to other songs

2. "Der Untermensch"
3. "Xero Tolerance"
4. "Prelude to Agony"
5. "**Glass Walls of Limbo**"
6. "The Misinterpretation of Silence and its Disastrous Consequences"
7. "Gravitational Constant: G = 6.67 × 10−8 cm−3 gm−1 sec−2"

1. "I Know You're Fucking Someone Else"
2. "Are You Afraid"
3. "Gravity"
4. "Pain"
5. "Kill You Tonight"
6. "Hey Pete"
7. "Kill You Tonight (reprise)"
8. "Paranoid" (bonus track)
 ***Bloody Kisses***

1. "Machine Screw"
2. "Christian Woman"
3. "Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)"
4. "Fay Wray Come Out and Play"
5. "Kill All the White People"
6. "Summer Breeze"
7. "Set Me on Fire"
8. "Dark Side of the Womb"
9. "We Hate Everyone"
10. "Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)"
11. "3.0.I.F."
12. "Too Late: Frozen"
13. "Blood & Fire"
14. "Can't Lose You"
15. "Suspended in Dusk" (on special editions only)
16. "Black Sabbath (From the Satanic Perspective)" (on special editions only)
17. "Summer Girl" (unreleased)

1. "Bad Ground"
2. "Intro"
3. "Love You to Death"
4. "Be My Druidess"
5. "Green Man"
6. "Red Water (Christmas Mourning)"
7. "My Girlfriend's Girlfriend"
8. "Die with Me"
9. "Burnt Flowers Fallen"
10. "In Praise of Bacchus"
11. "Cinnamon Girl"
12. "The Glorious Liberation of the People's Technocratic Republic of Vinnland by the Combined Forces of the United Territories of Europa"
13. "Wolf Moon"
14. "Haunted"
15. "Outro"
 ***World Coming Down***

1. "Skip It"
2. "White Slavery"
3. "Sinus"
4. "Everyone I Love Is Dead"
5. "Who Will Save the Sane?"
6. "Liver"
7. "World Coming Down"
8. "Creepy Green Light"
9. "Everything Dies"
10. "Lung"
11. "Pyretta Blaze"
12. "All Hallows Eve"
13. "Day Tripper"

1. "Thir13teen"
2. "I Don't Wanna Be Me"
3. "Less than Zero (<0)"
4. "Todd's Ship Gods (Above All Things)"
5. "I Like Goils"
6. "...A Dish Best Served Coldly"
7. "How Could She?"
8. "Life Is Killing Me"
9. "Nettie"
10. "(We Were) Electrocute"
11. "IYDKMIGTHTKY (Gimme That)"
12. "Angry Inch"
13. "Anesthesia"
14. "Drunk in Paris"
15. "The Dream Is Dead"
16. "Out of the Fire" (bonus track)
 ***Dead Again***

1. "Dead Again"
2. "Tripping a Blind Man"
3. "The Profit of Doom"
4. "September Sun"
5. "Halloween in Heaven"
6. "These Three Things"
7. "She Burned Me Down"
8. "Some Stupid Tomorrow"
9. "An Ode to Locksmiths"
10. "Hail and Farewell to Britain"

* "Pictures of Matchstick Men"
* "On with the Show"
* "In the Flesh"
* "Back in the U.S.S.R."
* "It's Never Enough"
* "12 Black Rainbows"
* "Stay Out of My Dreams"
* "Highway Star"
* "Santana Medley"
* "If She Loved Me"
 **StereoType O Negative songs**

* "In the Name of Love (Pride)"
* "Dolce Vita"
* "Last Christmas"
* "Wicked Game"