Peter Steele tuned his bass down to B-standard (sometimes lower). That is deep, deep sub-bass. MP3 encoding uses a psychoacoustic model that throws away frequencies it thinks your ear cannot hear. It always throws away sub-bass content. With FLAC, those tectonic-plate-shifting lows remain intact. You don’t just hear “Gravity” (from World Coming Down ); you feel it.
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: A mix of their gothic style with shorter, more "pop-structured" songs. Peter Steele tuned his bass down to B-standard