The second album from Type O Negative, The Origin of the Feces was recorded in a studio, but a fake audience track was added to give the illusion of a live album. The cover of the original release had an up-close picture of an anus (reputed to belong to frontman Peter Steele). Subsequent reissues feature a different cover, a black and green portrait of 1493 painting "The Dance of Death". The reissue also features an additional track, a cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid".