![]() ![]() The song features several musical references to other songs, like when Peter Steele sings "elo whirled", a reference to the Electric Light Orchestra, or later when he sings "in the still of the night", a reference to the Cole Porter song of the same name. The song is over 11 minutes long, making it one of the longest tracks in the Type O Negative discography. The band's lead singer, Peter Steele, passed away the following year. Halloween in Heaven is the last track on Type O Negative's last album Dead Again, released in 2007. It takes a humorous and somewhat irreverent approach to death, while at the same time acknowledging the pain that comes with losing people we love, concluding with the lyric, "of course I cried when I heard they'd died and took a part of me, the same time gave from beyond the grave, became what was meant to be". Overall, Halloween in Heaven is a surreal and thought-provoking song about death, and how the afterlife might look like. By mixing musicians who died in different decades and different genres, the song creates a sense of timelessness that seems to suggest how in the afterlife, time does not function as it does in the world of the living. The verse that paints the most vivid picture is probably the most surreal, where the song describes various dead musicians from John Bonham, John Entwistle, Bon Scott, Randy Rhoads, Jimi Hendrix, Lennon, and George Harrison, all gathering to perform music in the afterlife, and wondering where Jim Morrison is. At the heart of the song are some musings on death, and how time takes us back to memories of the past, either good or bad. ![]() The song continues to describe the various parts of the afterlife like heaven, limbo, hell, and purgatory, and speculates on how these places would celebrate Halloween and Christmas. The opening lyrics describe how even in death, the dead keep dancing to the sound of the morbid beat with their decaying feet. In the song Halloween in Heaven, Type O Negative paints a vivid and somewhat surreal picture of the afterlife, particularly during two western holidays - Halloween and Christmas. ![]()
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