Xero Tolerance

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"**Xero Tolerance**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their first album *Slow, Deep and Hard*, released in 1991. It starts off with a knife being sharpened on a grinder before Sabbath-like guitar riff begins then a high-pitched atonal string-like line (a bit reminiscent of Bernard Herrmann's work on Alfred Hitchcock's film *Psycho*). This song is about stalking an ex-girlfriend after finding out that she is having sex with another man. "Type "A" Personality Disorder", the first canto of this song, is about being obsessed with hatred by a rage. "Kill You Tonight", the second canto and the same title as the altered version of this song on the album *The Origin of the Feces* released within a year after *Slow, Deep and Hard*, is about a drunk man killing his former fiancée and her lover. The third canto, "Love You to Death" (which is also the title of the song on *October Rust*), is just an acoustic sound overlaid with repeated chopping sound.

This song is one of few humorous spots on the album as "zero" in the song title is spelled with an X instead of Z. When adding 'zero' before the denotor of the good, the situation would be bad. So Steele thought that 'zero' starting with X is appropriate when talking about the unpleasant.

## Lyrics

**[Canto I. "Type "A" Personality Disorder"]**

Hatred

Obsessing me

Hatred

Possessing me

Anger

Burning me

Anger

Turning me

Into someone I don't

Into someone I don't know

Into someone I don't know

Rage

That's shaking me

Rage

That's making me

Into someone I don't

Into someone I don't know

Into someone I don't know

I don't know

**[Canto II. "Kill You Tonight"]**

I'll kill you tonight

I'll kill you tonight

I'll kill you tonight

I'll fuckin' kill you

And now you die!

Oh you're dead now!

Yeeeaaah-Hoooooo!

I got a pickax in the trunk of my car

I'll put it on the grinder to get it real sharp

There's an ugly green monster in my head

Won't leave me alone

Until you're dead

I called your house but you couldn't be reached

So I took the D train to Brighton Beach

You're doing the thing with a brand new man

Checking out the stars

Screwing on the sand

Kill you

Kill you

Punishment

Kill you

Took some steroids and adrenaline

Finlandia vodka and hallucinogens

Mixed it with blood and orange juice

Liquid protein and ice cubes

Staring down at your sweaty embraces

Put my tool right through your faces

Well buddyboy I hope you enjoyed her

'Cause I'm an equal opportunity destroyer

Kill you

Kill you

Punishment

Kill you

I'll kill you tonight

I'll kill you tonight

I'll kill you tonight

I'll fuckin' kill you

**[Canto III. "Love You to Death"]**

[Instrumental with chops]

## Personnel

**Group performers**

* **Peter Steele** – vocals, bass
* Kenny Hickey – guitar, acoustic guitar
* Josh Silver – keyboards, organ, effects
* Sal Abruscato – drums

**Enginucers**

* **Peter Steele** – writing
* Mike Marciano – engineering, mixing
* J.S. Bach – samples
* 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"