30-Day Song Challenge 2: Day 11 - A song I love from the 90s: Type O Negative - Everything Dies

Ah the 1990s. A time when mobile phones were still the size of small houses, when your accident-prone writer spent most of his time falling off skateboards, and when music television was still music television.

Growing up as a young metal head, music television presented a few choices of enjoyable programming. Of course, we had Beavis and Butthead, hardly the epitome of cultural elegance but still nonetheless funny to young boys such as myself, and we had Headbangers Ball but, most crucially here in Britain, we had Tommy Vance and his Friday Night Rock Show.

Vance, always instantly recognizable with his deep, gravelly voice and dark sunglasses, was something of a legend on these shores; hosting the original Friday Night Rock Show on Radio 1 from '78 to '93 and championing the best in hard music and playing a considerable role in the rise of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

Unfortunately, I was too young to remember most of that, but I do certainly remember Vance taking a new version of his show to VH1, and staying up way past my bed time every Friday night to hear the kind of music I just couldn't find anywhere else.

My interest in heavy metal stemmed largely from these shows; beyond the music, there was something visually arresting about the videos Tommy played on his show which made them instantly memorable.

 I was fascinated as I watched Dez Fafara lose the plot in the video for Coal Chamber's Loco. I was both amazed, and slightly scared, the first time I saw Marilyn Manson screeching his way through Beautiful People, and I was stunned into a perfect silence the first time Tommy Vance played the haunting video for Everything Dies by Type O Negative.

Here was a song that was so different to anything I'd ever really heard. A song so beautiful, so chilling, and yet still kinda bad ass, that I fell in love with it instantly.

Type O Negative still receive plenty of play time on Spotify, and every time I hear them I'm transported right back to the first time I saw them on Tommy Vance's VH1 Friday Night Rock Show back in the 1990s.

In the memory of both Vance, who passed away in 2005, and Type O' front man Peter Steele, who died in 2010, I ask you to please enjoy.