Type-B-Negative - Pain and Pleasure [Gothic Metal / Doom Metal]

This track is particularly special to me. I see it as the opening song for a 4-track (or maybe 4 + 1 bonus track) EP called Leather & Lace. It seduces, invites you in, and—most importantly—keeps you in! It’s the perfect opener.

It takes you on a short musical journey into the darkest parts of my mind. Follow me on this spiral downwards, but I can’t promise it will be gentle!

With a solid intro and captivating verses, I played around with the lyrics, adding some meaningful references and weaving a dark story.

The visuals flowed naturally while listening, though I ran into a few roadblocks with what the AIs would let me create. Damn censorship!

Enjoy the ride!

Process:

- Carefully craft meaningful, personal lyrics using several lyric AI's.
- Feed those lyrics to music AI's to generate the foundation of the track.
- Describe my mood or the creatures from my mind, and create the song piece by piece with music AI's.
- Envision the imagery that comes to mind while listening to the song, then generate artwork with AI (it can get pretty dark).
- Animate the artwork with AI for a dynamic visual experience.
- Upscale and interpolate all the artwork using Adobe After Effects.
- Edit everything into an abstract music video with some help from AI in Adobe Premiere Pro.

To be clear: this is the result of me spending lots of time and playing with several AI's. There is NO substitute for the real Type-O-Negative, you know that and i know that!

Lyrics:

Pain and pleasure, one and the same
Come with me, I'll make you play the game
No expectations, just raw delight
My touch, it will ignite your night

I confess, i haunt the faint and weak
Bold touch, I’m the thrill you seek

Only Darkness, not a single light
Pain turns to pleasure in the dead of night
Surrender to this carnal rite
Nothing more, just us tonight

My desire, becomes real
Every touch, you start to feel
You will beg, you will kneel
Pleasure's pain, our secret deal

Pain and pleasure, one and the same
You're with me now, playing a game
No expectations, just raw delight
Do you feel it, oh, so full of fright

Only Darkness, not a single light
Pain turns to pleasure in the dead of night
Surrender to this carnal rite
Nothing more, just us tonight

So here we go, let it all slide
Step into the darkness, and let me guide
For in this darkness, we truly see
The beauty of pain, and the power of me