Prelude to Agony

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"**Prelude to Agony**" is a song by Type O Negative, included on their first album *Slow, Deep and Hard*, released in 1991. This song is about raping the girl. The first canto, "The Truth", is instrumental. The second canto, "God Love Fire Woman Death", has stoner metal riffs. The third canto, "Jackhammarape", features a grinding jackhammer and a woman shrieking. The fourth canto, "Pain (Is Irrelevant)", has dirge-like riffing then a mechanical device used to inflict serious injury to incapacitated victims with female screams then some male screams.

The altered version of this song, "Pain", which is the partial title of the fourth canto of this song, is included on their second album *The Origin of the Feces*.

## Lyrics

**[Canto I. "The Truth"]**

[Instrumental]

**[Canto II. "God Love Fire Woman Death"]**

There is no pain like that of desire

Is there no difference between women and fire?

One burns the spirit

The other the flesh

Is sex worth the price of certain death?

Absolution

I am whole

Absolution

I am

Open her loins and into the hearth

Don't let her flames consume your heart

For the quest of holy copulation

The end result?

Self immolation

Absolution

I am whole

Absolution

I am

Love is life

Life is love

Love is pain

Pain is death

**[Canto III. "Jackhammerape"]**

Agony and ecstasy

Your cries of pain my pleasure

To know my machine internally

Your torment I treasure

Lifeblood combines with semen

You're screaming my laughter

The compressor is running smoothly

'Tis vengeance I am after

Begging becomes your love song

You're dying

I masturbate

For the crime of burning me

I give to thee

Jackhammerape

**[Canto IV. "Pain (is irrelevant)"]**

Pain

Pain

Pain

Pain

I hope you enjoy this

(Pain)

## Personnel

**Group performers**

* **Peter Steele** – lead vocals, bass
* Kenny Hickey – guitar, backing vocals
* Josh Silver – keyboards, organ
* Sal Abruscato – drums, percussion

**Session performers**

* The Bensonhoist Lesbian Choir – backing vocals

**Enginucers**

* **Peter Steele** – writing
* Mike Marciano – engineering, mixing
* Josh Silver – samples, 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"