A Type O Negative–Inspired Calendar for 2026 - The Story behind

A Gothic Love Story Told Month by Month

This project started with inspiration.Inspiration from music, from imagery, and from two young artists whose work immediately clicked with our own aesthetic.

We partnered with the model Polina (Insta: @qwpolysh) and the photographer Julia (Insta: @julliiasss_) to create this Type O Negative–inspired Calendar 2026. It’s our first calendar, and it was made possible thanks to the atmosphere, emotion, and visual language these two artists brought into the project. From there, we added our own edits and narrative ideas to shape everything into one cohesive story.

Now it’s here, and we’re proud to present it to you.

Listening Along

Because music is at the core of this project, we created a Spotify playlist featuring all the Type O Negative songs that inspired the calendar.

We recommend listening while scrolling through the images or reading the story below.It’s the best way to fully step into the world of the calendar.

The Story Behind the Calendar

Rather than treating each month as a random image, we wanted the calendar to tell a continuous story.

What you see from January to December is a tragic gothic romance, unfolding slowly through the seasons.

Each month is one chapter. One image. One lyric. One emotional state.

January

“Throughout these woods, ecstatic screams.”

(Be My Druidess)

The story begins in the forest.

She appears as something almost mythical, free, wild, and deeply connected to nature. This is the awakening, desire without consequence yet, pure atmosphere and mystery.

February

“Shall I prove I mean what I'm saying,

Am I good enough for you?”

(Love You to Death)

Devotion enters the picture.

Love becomes intense, vulnerable, and consuming. February is about surrender, opening yourself completely, even if it means losing control.

March

“Loving you was like loving the dead.”

(Black No. 1)

Seduction turns darker.

The glamour remains, but something feels wrong. Beauty and decay start to exist side by side, and the love already carries a sense of doom.

April

“Forgive her, for she knows not what she does.”

(Christian Woman)

Guilt, temptation, and inner conflict.

This chapter plays with spiritual imagery and emotional confusion. Love is no longer innocent, but it’s still impossible to walk away.

May

“We'll be meeting again,

And on that great day,

I will tease you all the same.”

(Wolf Moon)

Desire becomes animalistic.

Instinct takes over. This is transformation, lust, and power, the point where emotion turns feral.

June

“A victim of the curse of empathy,

Her reward for compassion is to suffer.”

(Nettie)

The cost of feeling too much.

June is quiet and painful. She absorbs everything, loves too deeply, and begins to break under the weight of it.

July

“All of the flowers that I gave her,

She burned them.”

(Burnt Flowers Fallen)

Betrayal.

What once bloomed is destroyed. Summer, usually full of life, becomes a season of loss and emotional fire.

August

“A dreamer of pictures, I run in the night,

You see us together, chase the moonlight.”

(Cinnamon Girl)

Memory and longing.

She drifts through the nights, haunted by what once was. This chapter is soft, nostalgic, and painfully beautiful.

September

“Autumnal rays turned your eyes to stone,

Did it give you pleasure to steal my soul?”

(September Sun)

Realization.

Autumn arrives, and with it the understanding that love has taken something irreversible. The warmth fades, leaves fall, and clarity hurts.

October

“You don’t know what I’ve been through,

Just want to put my love in you.”

(Blood and Fire)

Obsession returns, darker than before.

Fire replaces warmth. Love is no longer gentle, it’s desperate, intense, and dangerous.

November

“If this time was the last time,

Could I hold you all life long?”

(Die With Me)

The farewell.

Everything slows down. There’s acceptance, sadness, and a final attempt to hold onto what’s already slipping away.

December

“The lesson professed is quite cruel,

There are some things worse than death,

And one of them is you.”

(She Burned Me Down)

The end.

Ashes, cold, silence. She is destroyed by love, but also transformed by it. What remains is no longer innocence, but something stronger and darker.

Final Thoughts

This calendar is more than twelve images.

It’s a year-long journey through desire, obsession, loss, and rebirth, inspired by the music that shaped gothic culture for decades.

Get it here -> Niflheim Records Type O Negative-inspired Calendar 2026

It’s our first calendar, created with passion, trust, and a shared vision.

If Type O Negative, dark romance, and atmospheric imagery speak to you, this project was made for you.

Thanks for being part of it.