a closer look/translation of this josh silver magazine snippet!
translation (or if you just don’t wanna zoom in lol):
As California crumbles after another massive quake, a mother learns her son lives dead among the rubble of an apartment building, and the camera never stops rolling.
Tears and anguish captured. like a zoo animal, to be watched and witnessed repeatedly-just one scene in a videotape chronicle of human suffering.
Three thousand miles away,
Andrea Elston finishes a full back plece of Satan flanked by pillars of masterbating demons. Her canvas is Type O Negative keyboardist Josh Silver, a man whose body is as much a record of death as a five o'clock newsreel.
"People are obsessed with what they have to come to terms with," says Silver.
Dying doesn't frighten him, but it absorbs him. And just as death is at once beautiful and horrific, compelling and repellent, mysterious and yet familiar, so is the art adorning his upper body—a testimony to his great obsession.
A circa 1940s grim reaper design inked 16 years ago by Brooklyn Bill keeps company with a Japanese death character (Mike Perfetto, Brooklyn) and tribal death rows inked by Huggy Bear as a memorial to an older brother who died when Silver was ten. Two giant roses on the back of his left arm are also dedicated to his bro.
The "eclectic nightmare" of his right sleeve is composed of a skull of wings, a skull with horns and a grim reaper cover piece among other non-death-related works, including the requisite Type 0 Negative symbol.
Ah, yes, the band. Art imitates art as T.O.N., straying from the full metal anger shrouding first release Slow, Deep, and Hard, seems to have dipped into the psychedelic "color thing with eyeball" creeping up Sliver's shoulder for the second full-length album, Bloody Kisses.
Type O Negative delivers their original metaledge with a Sixties pop sensibility, as they address accusations of misogyny, racism and fascism with songs entitied "Kill All the White People, -We Hate Everyone" and
As co-producer, Silver was able to soak this third release (EP Origin of the Feces was released in 1992) with the sweat of his own demons-
death-centered. The cloaked, cloven-hoofed skeleton figure (George Belew, Leguna Beach) representing Silver's fear of prison is like the
"bad acid trip" interludes connecting the songs on Bloody Kisses: seemingly unrelated but essential to the overall concept.
For Silver, the concept is bitter, brutal and a constant reminder that the purpose of recording history in any medium-be it video, CD, or the human body, is to remember… and not to regret.
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