"3.0.I.F." is a song by Type O Negative, included on their third album Bloody Kisses, released in 1993. The interlude begins with a motorcycle accelerating to high speed then gives way to womanly choirs over the slow percussion rhythm, then a motorcycle crash, followed by a low-pitch electric humming sound of catastrophe with people talking on top with emergency caller, and ends with an oncoming vehicle, a truck horn and followup crash.
The track title means "30 if", referring that Peter Steele would've been 30 if he hadn't died in the motorcycle accident (in reality he didn't die in that crash and he lived till 48). The title and the sound of motorcycle in it was inspired from a license plate on the car on the album cover of Abbey Road by the Beatles which reads "28IF".
Lyrics[]
[Nonmusical sounds]
Personnel[]
Group performer
- Sal Abruscato – percussion
Session performers
- Bonnie Weiss – voices
- Keith Caputo – voices
- Karen Rose – voices
- Debbie Alter – voices
- Chris Zamp – voices
- Alan Robert – voices
- Joey Zampella – voices
- Mike Palmeri – voices
Enginucers
- Peter Steele – writing, production
- Mike Marciano – engineering, mixing
- Josh Silver – sound effects, programming, production
- George Marino – mastering