Type O Negative: The History Of The Band & Death of Peter Steele
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Led by imposing frontman Peter Steele, Type O Negative would bring goth metal to the masses during the 90’s.
The band mixed themes of romance, drugs, depression, and death resulting in the name the "the Drab Four” which was a nod to the Beatles “the fab four” moniker. Type O Negative's keyboardist Josh Silver would reveal in the book The Oral History of Metal how frontman Peter Steele’s frustrations as a teenager and young adult influenced his song writing revealing: “Peter was big and considered himself kind of goofy. He didn’t have girlfriends growing up. A lot of Type O’s music was written from the perspective of someone who who couldn’t get laidd. We had songs like I know your fing someone else. He was able to be very honest about how hurt he was during a lot of these periods. I think it was part of what made us appealing. We told the truth" he’d say.
Several years prior to the formation of Type O negative in 1989, Peter Steele was fronting and playing bass in another band named Carnivore. The band would take to the stage during live shows dressed as warriors in worn clothing and attached spikes to hockey gear. The band’s music explored some pretty dark themes with song titles including "Jesus Hiler", "Race War", and "Thermonuclear Warrior,"
Steele was known for having a dark sense of humor as Type O Negative drummer
Sal Abruscato would tell Metal Hammer Magazine:“Peter enjoyed messing with people,”.
“People though he was serious when he was joking and joking when he was serious.”
Carnivore would only last for two albums before the band split and Steele went on to form a new band with longtime friend Josh Silver. They would originally called themselves Subzero before finally landing on the name Type O Negative. Type O Negative’s first record 1991’s slow deep and hard would feature songs more heavily influenced by doom, and thrash metal. The following year the band released 1992’s The Origin Of Feces which was a faux live record that featured a hostile live audience.
Bloody kisses featured the band’s best known song Black No. 1 which was a mainstay of MTV’s
headbangers ball. The song sarcastic lyrics were loosely inspired by a relationship Steele
had with a goth. The singer would tell Revolver how he wrote the song while working as a truck
driver revealing "I was waiting in line for three hours to dump 40 cubic yards of human
waste at the Hamilton Avenue Marine Transfer Station, and I wrote the song in my head.
I'm not kidding you."
The second single released from the record Christian Woman which had a successful run
on US rock radio and along with the album’s first single pushed the album to go platinum
in the US.
It wasn’t until 1993’s bloody kisses that the band’s goth metal sound took center stage According to Abruscato “Peter loved the goth girls,”“We used to go to the bars where they all hung outto pick them up. But he was really into tha tsound - The Sisters Of Mercy,, My Bloody Valentine. That whole scene was attractive to him, so he made it his own.”
The goth element wasn’t the only new thing brought to Type O Negative’s sound on bloody
kisses as according Type O Negative guitarist Kenny Hickey “Peter decided that melody was really where it’s at,”“which was a hard thing to do. He went from screaming his head off and
Former drummer Sal Abruscato would reveal to Widerhorn his summary of Steel’s personality saying“Peter was a very sweet, very funny guy, but he was also very fragile,” “And that vulnerability allowed some demons to come in.”
October Rust would go gold it failed to match the success of Bloody Kisses., but would still go gold.
Life Is Killing Me would be the band’s sixth studio album and their final record released on labell Roadrunner Records. The album once again dealt with mental illness, the death of Steele’s parents.
Steele would be forthcoming about his problems with the law and relationships he’d had. He would reveal in the Oral History of Metal:
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Unless it was something a person was known for repeatedly saying you would say "he said" not "he'd say".
"The Origin of Feces, was recorded in front of a hostile live audience" is not well researched. It was a studio album through and through. The hostile audience was faked and the record included the first song that would define their sound: A cover of Black Sabbath' song Paranoid. Also Slow, Deep and Hard included a cover of Jimi Hendrix' song Hey Joe, since you noted the cover songs of most of the other albums.
bucky468 My comment was a suggestion to the narrator or writers, to correct a minor grammatical error, and not a reply to your comment. If it were a reply you'd have seen @bucky468 before my comment.
The Exploding Hearts. A highly influential Punk/Power Pop band from Oregon that continues to have a cult following to this day. Three of the four members died from a traffic accident just a few months after releasing their debut album. A documentary about the band is actually under way.
saw it suggested way down in the comments but I agree Woods of Ypres ( David Gold) is a thought.
I met Peter after the Bloody Kisses show in Atlanta. He was so impressed I had the CD on me, he took me backstage and had the band sign it. He was so friendly and so appreciative of his fans
Very cool!
THATS SO COOL
🥺💔😭
Lucky man.
Same kinda deal when I saw them in corpus got to go back stage n get my cd cover signed by all of em
I admit I wasn’t much of a fan, but my friend loved them, so I went to a few shows. He was honestly the nicest person. He seemed genuinely intrigued by my complete disinterest in him lol, and talked to me for nearly ten minutes while women screamed around us. About a month later, they were playing a small venue, and he literally pointed from across the room and said... hey I know you! He walked over, and again struck up a convo. Very sweet guy.
This is seriously a fantastic basis for a fan fic! Love it.
did you guys bang
I'm sure he appreciated talking to a girl who wasn't just trying to throw herself at him... while he had his fun, you know it's refreshing to talk to a real person who is not obsessed with you or wanting anything from you, most "celebrities" and well known musicians are very much like this, except there can only be one Pete... Big love & RIP
When was this?
That is so AWESOME! Thank you for sharing! 💜💜
I met Peter Steele just shortly before his death, while I was visiting a friend getting some psychological treatment. I had the chance to talk to him for a few minutes, we was a super friendly guy and really seemed like he was in a good place and getting the help he needed. Having Peter Steele put his giant hand on my shoulder in a mental ward of a hospital was not anything I thought would happen to me, but it did. I think it was a few weeks later when I heard of his passing. I got to meet the man, not in the usual setting, in a place he was potentially vulnerable and I think I got to talk to the REAL Peter Steele for a bit. I hate the circumstances of how it happened, but i'm glad I got the opportunity.
If I was you, I would've frozen in fear. You must be brave.
Very nice 👍
Wow that's cool
As Peter himself would have said: you are utterly, and totally, full of shit. This never happened.
Wow, just wow. I love testimony like this. 💜💜💚💚
"Steele wanted to focus the band's sound on appealing more to women" Well it fucking WORKED didn't it?
Hell yea!
If by worked you mean he got lots of girls as he spiraled into depression, addiction, misery, and death trying to fill that void, then yes.
Absofuckinglutely!
Like Limp Bizkit to men. So.
I think one of the band members sort of retracted that statement saying that it was said ironically or as a joke.
"It's better to burn quickly and bright, than slowly and dull without a fight."
Peter Steele
better to live as king of beasts than as a lamb, scared and weak.
@@maxwellporterhouse1104 It was a saying to himself during that situation. In the end nobody's strong enough
Kurgan : "I've Got Something To Say. It's Better To Burn Out, Than Fade Away!" (he was quoting Def Lepard from "Rock Of Ages opening)
@@seaningram3285 i think it wasn't intentional
@@seaningram3285 i mean sometimes u and i can catch the same words
Got a chance to see Type O at a local venue called Mirage in Minneapolis. They'd have the "big stage" shows and the small and since Type O was playing on a weekday I believe, they made them play the small stage. Afterwards I went up to the stage and talked to Peter and shook his hand. I remember his hand dwarfed mine, it was kind of spooky but he was really cool to me even though he could have squished me like a bug. I later saw them play Ozzfest in 97 and I remember him breaking each bass string off one-by-one at the end of the set. Made a crazy sound. RIP Pete. Thanks for the memories and music.
Mirage was a very cool place for shows. Saw many awesome bands at various levels of professional achievement while I lived there. I don’t think I suffered a single pompous jerk in all that time. Only very approachable folks who appreciated and welcomed interaction with the audience, as long as you were not an overtly unbearable individual. Lots of after bar parties, lots of mood enhancing substances, lots of very friendly ladies, and lots of late night hamburgers after late night taxi rides. I had a buddy who was a DJ at a very popular men’s club called Deja Vu, right downtown on Washington Avenue. We lived next to each other in the Whitney Block on 2nd Ave. North and 2nd Street North, two blocks from the Vu. Several times we took bands out on a street level tour of Minneapolis/St. Paul, often times in a borrowed limousine, visiting places like Gleuks, Waters, Solid Gold, and First Avenue/7th Street Entry. Then we’d head to the apartment complex after bar close. A dozen or so of the featured Deja Vu dancers lived in the same building as us, so it was in this apartment, over to that apartment, up two floors to another apartment, then on to the roof patio...whew. I haven’t been back to the TC in over a decade, I hope it’s still up and rocking. Type O would have been epic, for sure! 👍
Pretty sure I bought October Sky after going to that Ozzfest. If I'm remembering correctly, it was moved from WI to the HHH Dome because parents groups got all butthurt of Manson.
@@terrystowers6085 Mirage has been gone for a long long time but Deja Vu is still up and running. 👍
I was crowd surfing at that concert.
My uncle Brett seen them at station 4
Peter Steele was the man Type o is criminally Underated
Yeah man, he was the man, What a man. He sure was. Oh well the man is dead.
YEAH Peter Steel is still alive in my hart and hi will be forever
true story bro...
Yes sir
@@pascaldesnoeck8671 agreed
I met Peter in the mid nineties, in an elevator at a hotel in Corpus Christi Tx. He was on tour with Life of Agony. I played it cool, at least I thought I did, and told him I was a fan. He was freindly. He was certainly a presence. I was very sad when he left us.
It sounds like you missed a perfect opportunity to make some elivator small talk about the weather and the town only to surpise launch seemlessly into an air guitar rendition of Christian Woman to the delight of Peter Steel, who would then hopefully deem you worthy and join in for the big finale and explode your friggin' head off like from that scene in Scanners. But really, it is cool you got to say hi to him and show appreciation directly. Those kinds of encounters with respectful fans probably really brightened his day.
@@morgellon9449 haha. Yeah, I misses out on that! I hope it was a good encounter for him. I have many memories listening to Bloody Kisses.
Do you have a poster of him behind your bathroom door?
I met Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam in an elevator right before their show and it was just awkward as fuck. I only said hi to him, he came off as very shy . O’well , next time....
Did you ask him what City you were in just to see if he'd actually say Corrrrrrrrrrrrrpusssssssssss Chrissssssstaaaaayyyy? Hahaha
Every person that’s met him has said he was a sweet guy, just makes me sad I never saw them live. :-(
every person "who" not that. Now get my Big mac and fries.
exactly, i got into them 2 years ago so I never had a chance to see them live. it's nice that Peter lives on in the memories of his fans and his loved ones. :D
I was lucky enough to see them in Dublin many years ago, Stuck Mojo supported so quite a strange choice of support band indeed. They were fucking superb live, Pete drank a bottle of red wine like you or I would hold a 500ml bottle of Coke, he was a BIG bastard!
I used to hang w him n some friends at his place in Brooklyn. Such an awesome guy, it's really sad how the decent ones die young.
@@Rhythmeister Damn! STUCK MOJO,,that just brought back memories..i wont go in to a long story of how i got to know Rich and Bonz, but im from the Atlanta area and have been a BIG fan from their beginning to their end.
I had the pleasure of touring with Type O as they’re sound man for the second half of Bloody and all of October. They treated me great. Peter was a class act in my book. It was the high light of my sound career. ❤️
I saw Type O at Milwaukee Metalfest @ the Rave/Eagles Ballroom in the summer of 95. Only reason I mention that is because every sound tech I've ever talked to absolutely HATES doing sound for the Ballroom stage! 🤣 Also, it was the first real concert I had been to, and I had the good fortune of talking to Pete outside the venue and getting his autograph.
I met Peter after a show around 98 or 99. There were a bunch of us hanging out near the tour bus hoping to meet the band and the cops were in the midst of running us off. Peter came out of the venue and said to the cops "These are my friends, they can stay" and spent about 30 minutes hanging out with us and talking. He seemed like a pretty chill guy.
I don't know where else to leave this, but Peter's death saved my older brothers life. Diverticulitis which led into his septic state and subsequently his death has few warning signs before it kills you. My older brother who was diagnosed with the same condition was only saved because we were huge fans of type o, and were floored by Peter's death the year prior. When my brother saw that he had been spiraling downward similar to Peter, we knew what was happening. We rushed him to the ER and had we not done that I wouldn't have my brother today. I don't know what to say other than I am eternally grateful to Peter, his music got me through some rough times growing up, and even after his death Peter was still giving to those he didn't even know. Thank you Peter, I really can't say it enough. Rest in peace large green man.
Wow. Incredible story.
thank God bro glad to hear that
Amazing 💚💚💚
Josh Silver is unrecognizable now, he shaves his beard & head and is living a quiet life as a NYC paramedic. True story
Hopefully he turned to Christ as well.
@@EQOAnostalgia why turn Christian there are thousands of different religions
Wow I just checked that out what a life turnaround...
@@EQOAnostalgia so what your saying is... You have to be Christian to be a good person. See what i think your saying is that your kind of an asshole just my opinion dude no shade
@@EQOAnostalgia may as well turn to the easter bunny my friend. Neither exist.
"He's the only guy I know who could do two 8balls and eat $60 of Chinese food"
RIP
Thats SEVEN GRAMS!!!! Mental!!!!
Well he is a big man after all.
Lmao IKR!! 🤮
shit had me laughing out of my seat
this is funny but i bet its true😂 i bet this dude could put some shit down
He looked so intimidating but,he was very down to earth,my friends and I were lucky to get to meet him after a concert many years ago,his sense of humor was definitely different but good
He was a cool guy, he'd always walk around after shows like it was no big deal.
So you want to tell us, he was "good", but not your Type of a man or better said Type of a negative man.
You are totally right in your first statement. I'm still frightened of him, even though he's no longer here.
why?
I met Pete after an Ozzy show in a club in NYC. I said to the guy I was with "is that Pete Steele?' I didn't realize I said it loud enough for him to hear and when he turned around I could tell from the initial look on his face he was most likely trying to just get out of there. I spoke to him for maybe a minute, I felt bad, but he shook my hand and was very polite. I told him I didn't want to keep him but thanked him for stopping for a minute. I told him their music fit any mood I was in, there was always a Type O song for everything. Still is. Miss you Pete........
Bloody Kisses" saved my life in august/september 93. I was alone,living on a small location,waisting my studies and seriously thinking of suicide... I could never think enough Peter,Josh and all the band members from theses times. RIP Peter,hope you are playing guitar in heaven,anyway I don't think you would really like this 2020's totalitarian world...
Amazing story, thanks for sharing it.
Playing in Hell buddy
@@NJRangerGeorge He was raised Roman Catholic and after being an atheist for 20 years, returned to the church in 06.
Also, he didn't "flip off the Father, Son, & Holy Spirit"...
what he did was The Sign of the Cross, followed by the "non mi interessa!", also known as the the Italian chin flick, which means "I don't care". It's a hand gesture that involves flicking the back of your fingers under your chin while tilting your head back slightly.
My girlfriend's girlfriend loved those guys
I see what you did there.
She looks like...you
😂😂
Who cares?
@ its one of the song names....
He was a true rocker. Unique voice, troubled, fighting the dark side while using his statements as entertainment. A terrible loss to the music world.
I had the pleasure of meeting Peter about a year before his death. I was living in Brooklyn and met up with him at the bar a couple times. I still have a message that he left on my answering machine.
How cool is that.
What did he say?
@@MoahGentle if I remember correctly it was something really strange about “being at the bottom of the ocean and seeing creepy things down there.” I don’t have the original voice message but I used the clip for an intro to a song. I still have that. I could post it on SoundCloud or something..
@@davidasher22 I'm confused. Why would he leave a message like that on someone's phone? Sounds odd. If you post it somewhere I'd check it out for sure.
@@MoahGentle he was a weird dude. I guess it was just his humor. He said a lot of strange shit all the time. He was usually high and drunk, as was i back then too so..
Type-O-Negative's record "Bloody kisses" is the perfect Halloween soundtrack for metal heads.
Exactly
October rust gives me more of a November/December vibe
Nahh man Samhain is the perfectly Halloween band
Agreed
So true. Also October Rust
Super tall guys have more heart problems and shorter lives. Unfortunately, you DON’T see many really old guys over 6’ 2”.
Pretty sure he had Marfan syndrome
I’m 6’5...gulp
@@clubba1264 I had a friend who had that. He is 6’7”, and his heart opened up at a KISS concert! He’s had numerous surgeries, but he’s lived with it for 30 years. Terrible.
@@WhyTheHorseface yeah..I have a buddy too...I was reading about it and saw the similarities and told him he should get checked out cause I thought he for sure had it. He didn't...yup aoerta burst..he survived the valve replacement surgery..still alive today. I went to school with his brother and he tells me that he got checked out and he doesn't have it. I kindly said..if you don't have it you better check to see if those are your real parents. 😉
Hasn't talked to me since
Kinda like big dogs have much shorter lives than the little ones.
Steele died of sepsis caused by diverticulitis (initially reported as heart failure) Something that could have been totally delt with but I’m sure his Drs sucked like most. RIP Green man! You are still very much loved 💚 🖤
Huge Type O fan and a microbiologist, thats just heart-renching to me. Sepsis can usually easily be cured.
Wow, he sounds exactly like me during my middle and high school years. I never got laid, was unpopular, and felt outta place. To this day, I still don't have a place. I'm just tackling it one day at a time
Stay strong. I know exactly how you feel. You aren't alone.
Good luck. I don't know you, but for years I've never had a place to call mine. Nor even a country, for that matter. So I get what you mean.
You are not alone believe me. I found that quiet or not popular people that don't really fit in are the kindest people. These ones I can really connect with. It might feel like your alone but you will find your fitting puzzle piece but you need to keep your head up and keep looking. Or wear a type o negative shirt and hope someone notices :)
Aren't we all! All we can do is keep moving forward. It's easier to do if you found your creative passion! It's people like us who make the biggest impacts on society!
Peter Steel is truly my favorite singer. Not a single person has struck a cord with me more than Pete, a depressed but lovable giant of a man with the heart to match. R.I.P.
The unique sound of type o negative is what made them special and memorable .
check out a new wave metal (!) band from AZ I think, called (ugh) FOUR STROKE BARON, who are clearly TON fans.
FSB are like TON, yet still really unique.
GREAT music....shitty band name!
I got to see Pete and Dime share a stage together at the '97 Ozzfest in St. Louis. R.I.P.
that fucking tour was the best shit ever. phil coming out to sing with type o. pete coming out and carrying dimebag while he played a solo. pure metal magic
I saw that show in Deer Creek, Indiana. Truly a once in a lifetime experience
Thats the one I was at. Good show
I got to see TON and Pantera too in Cincinnati. The idiot promoters put out folding metal chairs thinking we were gonna tap our toes and sit. Pantera comes out ripping the chairs go flying lol. Crazy! Then Pete would come out with a big push broom during Pantera’s set and sweep the stage. Man I miss those days. Also loved TON’s theatrics with green lights and fake snow coming down during Red Water. What a band. RIP.
@@maxwellporterhouse1104 That sounds amazing 😱🤯
Type O Negative was a once in a lifetime band, and Steele was a once in a lifetime composer. They aren’t my favorite band, but credit is due. Rest easy, Peter.
World Coming Down, Life is Killing Me and Dead Again are all master pieces.
No Rust or Kisses?
Maybe to you, but it's their FIRST 3 albums that are truly great-NOT their last 3 (tho DA is pretty good imo).
you know at the time each was released I was a bit disappointed by them. But i listen now and they are masterpieces
@@BrillCubes I wouldn't call LiKM a masterpiece, but the others I would. Too many mediocre songs on LiKM imo.
I consider them all to be top tier, if just for the voice alone
Peter was definitely a colorful character,and he had many ups and downs in his career,but one things for sure he was a one of a kind individual and there will never be another like him.
I was living in Indiana when Type O released most of their albums, and I remember a local DJ got fired after playing Christian Woman uncut.
Without doubt the most underrated singer & band in Rock/Metal history. They pretty much had their own genre and sound.
A true blue collar metal musician. Living his life in awkwardness and telling his story through his music but not so untouchable as to be immortal in that he showed his strength, his vulnerability, his talent, his weakness, his success and his demise yet somehow he remained mysterious but relatable. Overlooked and gone too soon. His music will resonate eternal
I miss pete so much. I have them tattooed on me and I saw them 4 times in detroit and loved it every time. Even.visited Pete's grave. Such an understanding band. Rest in peace jolly green giant.
Do you have a poster of him behind your bathroom door?
Wish I did
@@davidniemiec1973 well, take down your the WWE poster? Now get my Big Mac.
Gotta take your moms down first then the wrestling poster
@@davidniemiec1973 mom jokes? BTW there are like 8 facebooks of your name and they all look 15yo/ wrastling fans, and a blacklight used in you bedroom would show blue splats.
I wish he didn't go so soon, he'd probably get into eating healthy and exercise and he would have lived longer :(( Also I can't believe he was ever not popular with girls, he was always so gorgeous
He had a gf in high school named Marnie. They always kept in touch
@Snap your fingers snap your neck cardio for the heart tho, big muscles with a weak heart is never good
Pete died from the stress his body had to endure when he was a drug addict.
peter steele was so hot like damn
He had a giant root. Haha
Just sayin, as a totally straight dude. He did playgirl, look it up if u dare.
Peter was so funny and everyone thought he was this dark, serious character. All you have to do is watch his old interviews.
This band was and still is very special to me I was fortunate enough to meet Peter Steele and Josh Silver after the concert! Peter had a big heart very down to earth loving guy you could feel that energy coming from him! At the time I was going through a lot got married young life seemed extremely difficult to deal with favorite album was and still is October Rust! I thank these guys for helping me get through hard times of uncertainty confusion and dead ends! Peter Steele will always be missed! Type O Negative Forever!
I saw them on that last tour with Hatebreed and he looked so frail, couldn't sing and had lyric sheets in front of him. I walked out thinking I don't think he has a year left and sadly I was right. RIP Pete
Was that the Jagermeister tour? I was at the Anehiem show and they opened, then after they walked off stage 3/4 of the audience left before Hatebreed started including myself lol.
I seen them on that same tour when they stopped in Billings, MT. Loved every minute of their set.
Yeah, really! I saw them when they were in Portland during that tour. It was so brutal to watch Peter suffering. He looked so gaunt and wasted, reading his own lyrics from a podium -- which he eventually kicked off the stage out of frustration. I, too, had my doubts then that they'd ever record another album or tour again. At least I saw them live 11 times before that, which makes me feel sorry for those who discovered TON way later and will never get to see them live. There was something truly magic about their live shows, especially between '94 and '97, which I doubt I will ever experience from another band in my life again.
Harpo's in Detroit some time in the late 90s. Great show.
@@keedavid88 Big Sky Country ftw. It has been over twenty five years since I lived there, and I still call Montana home.
I only discovered Type O for myself about 5 years ago and I'm so pissed off with myself for not finding out how good they were earlier. I wish I was following them through the 90s.
Better now than never
I remember hanging with Pete around 93 in NY. He was good people.
Actually it was due to Peter Steele that I discovered The Sisters Of Mercy. Thank you for that and rest in peace, dear Peter.
"Can´t lose you" is still one of the most haunting and beautiful hard rock songs ever. The sitars in the song are just amazing.
Cheers from Costa Rica
Thanks for featuring one of my favorite bands that don’t get enough credit for their impressive catalog of music
Agree
TON was the last band that made me excited in anticipation of a new album. One of my favorite albums of all-time is October Rust. You turn off the lights and listen to that album with some good headphones... man, it takes you places. I'm fortunate enough that I got to see them live a couple of times. I really miss the band... RIP Peter Steele.
It's my favorite album of theirs 💜🖤 It takes me back in time now 😢
@@honorsilverthorne7227 I hear you... it gets nostalgic too, that was an amazing time 😪
One of my favorite albums as well! Sometimes ill go to it just to listen to one specific song, then next thing i know, im playing the whole album cause each song after the last is just as fuckin good. Thank you for the brilliant music, Green Man
@@jjdn43 the only band that could that. Start off with Christian woman and before you know it you hear, BLOOD & FIRE!
Dead Again happened to be the last music CD I bought, ever. His sisters kept a blog some time after, answering fan questions and whatnot. Had a few cats too; fun fact that Death in the Family was about one of his cats.
TON is THE most underrated band in the history of music
That is a strange statement coming from a dead head.
@@apatheticallylethargic4639 I may have. Deadhead logo but my favorite band of all time is TON always has been always will be. The dead and the beatles come in a close second
@@d34dj3d1 cool. I run into alot of people wearing logos that are not fans.
@@apatheticallylethargic4639 yea me too, I'm a HUGE deadhead though, never got to see them with Jerry though. Seen them without him a bunch of times and I have well over 200+ hours of video and audio recordings.
I do a show on Dlive and just play concerts.
@@d34dj3d1 nice. My 1st show was 7-2-88 Oxford Maine, I had just turned 16 and needless to say my parents did not see me for a long time after that.
You finally did it man after all this time I’ve asked. Thank you so much for covering my favorite band.
Met the guys a couple of times in Germany. First was 94 at the Bloody Kisses Tour. The last time I met Pete when I was a guest of Carnivore at two shows in 2007. Miss them so much.
Slow, Deep and Hard is such a great piece of work and one of my favorites. It's an often overlooked progressive metal/ thrash album.
Agreed.
Met Pete few times , just a great guy. Always consistently cordial non ego rock star aka regular cool dude. Such a pioneer extremely underrated R.I.P Green Man
Thanks for this mate. Im a huge fan of type O and of Peter and to see this again brings the memories, good and bad of such a wonderful talented artist. Missed but never forgotten
I swear I miss this dude and Type O's contributions to the world of music on pretty much a daily basis. 💚💚💚 Love those guys.
Type-0-Negative were the ones that pulled the current back on the rock star life style .One platinum album, with a couple Gold albums doesn’t pay a lot . The fact that all of these guys had regular day jobs the entire time they were in typo negative was very eye-opening. I watched another TH-cam video earlier this year and it explained how the record company pays the artist and even if you go platinum you still owe the record company money. If you are in a band and you sell 1 million copies of an album that doesn’t mean you have $1 million that means you’re about $300,000 in the hole. That’s not bad life choices, that’s a fucked up Industry. Yes if your Ozzy or Metallica or Korn, bands that in the 90’s could sell a CD and it at least was going to go 3x platinum. Now that metal is filled with bands that are only death metal, hard-core or death core you’ve got to know everyone of those guys wishes they could actually get paid for doing their music. Stop worrying about with the virgin fans that still live in their parents basement think. They don’t pay bills that’s why they’re in their parents basement.
Hard to imagine someone like Pete having trouble getting laid. I was fortunate enough to see them live a few years before he passed on.
I wish I could have seen them play. I didn’t get into the band until 2011.
@@lloydster9000 Better late than never.
@@arthurbishop3173 I completely agree.
My cousin Justin has a great story about going to see Type O Negative in Grand Rapids with his friend. He and his friend were waiting in a long line, and his friend was busy playing his Gameboy. Justin saw some huge guy walking down the side of the line, and it was none other than Peter Steele himself. Peter went right up to Justin and started talking to him: "How's it going, man? You come here to see us? I hope you have a fun time, man, should be a good show." Justin talks about it a lot still, says it was the best experience he ever had.
After one of their shows I went to their bus to meet the band and there was a big line. Right when I got to the front I had the biggest smile on my face, stuck out my hand, and then some goth girl runs up with a sharpie, bends over and says to Pete: “can you sign my ass?”
In the deepest voice he replied “Sign your ass?” I walked away disappointed and Pete goes “hey man” I turned around and he shook my hand it was huge. He goes “don’t worry I saw ya’ this broad huh?” I didn’t know what to say I just laughed and said what kind of bass do you play lol.
The beast inside of me is gonna getcha....getchaa yeeeeeaaaah!
Love you to Death is sang daily
This was my aisle/wedding song 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤
Type O Negative also went by the name Repulsion for a very brief time (even releasing a demo that included almost all of what would eventually become Slow, Deep and Hard), but they changed it to Type O after learning of the death/grind Repulsion's existence.
There's a recording of a show they did at L'Amours in Brooklyn right around the time Slow Deep & Hard was first released, where Peter anounces to the crowd, "Yeah, we're called Type O negative now.... it's our name of the week!" The original original name of the group was "New Minority". That was for like two months, *then* it was Repulsion, then it was Sub Zero, which Pete came up with a really cool logo for, and the members all went out and got tattoos of, only to find out a month later that, yet again, there was already a band with the rights to it. Pete then heard a radio add asking people to donate Type O Negative blood, and decided it was perfect.
What's with the annoying square in the middle of the screen...............
He was really sweet. I can’t believe we have to live without him. I’m grateful for the bands and his friends. I met my best friend because of Peter and his generosity and sarcasm. You really can’t beat his enthusiasm and solemn joy. He took care of his soul. And I wonder what happened to his cats. I never met them, but he described them with love.
I met him at the Belmont Lounge around 2000/2001. He was just better than sweet. He made me believe in the human race again. Just a wonderful man who kept losing his Carhart jacket and his gloves. So easy to be around.
I read that his sisters took his cats in. The oldest took care of them and 1 (OJ) was still alive as of last year I think. There are some tidbits and pics on their blog For The Love Of Pete Steele and some facebook pages, like The Real Peter Ratajczyk Page.
If he never passed away i can't imagine how many more great songs they would have made
Thanks man; this was nice quick, respectful overview of Peter & the band😎🤘👍
I miss Pete so much, just the most perfect voice for the beautiful dark music that the band made.
Quick shoutout to “Silvertomb” which is Kenny’s and Johnny’s band. It’s not “Type-O MkII” but are really good and help us cope with our loss a little.
I love the story of the time Pete was busted for cheating. After laying a babe, got dressed with the lights off. Drove drunk,hit a tree and was arrested. Bailed out by his main babe, got home and went to the bedroom to crash. Undressing Pete was caught pink pantied because in haste Pete drunkenly put on the woman's panties.
Commentary on the Symphony For The Devil DVD.
I don’t like the idea of cheating but this was great lmao
This bothers me so fucking much I stopped listening to their music for a big while. I hope he wasn't really cheating, maybe he and his girlfriend were in an open/non-monogamous relationship. Why on earth did he make a song bashing someone for cheating, if he did the same thing? And everyone from the band was there with him and no one cared to warn the girlfriend?
@@666melancias I'm sure you're perfect 😊
@@sea-dawg for real! Where did he find a woman his size? Frankenstein's laboratory?
@@666melancias Cheaters are hypocrites. That's why they flip out at the thought of _their_ "significant" other cheating on them. Cheaters usually project their own doings onto their partner and accuse them of cheating and being terrible. In their minds, it's perfectly ok for them to cheat, though.
I really hate that I became a fan years after Peter died. It was the late 2000’s when I got into them. I was just a teenager. They’re still my favorite band. I know it’s strange to miss a band/person you’ve never met, but I miss Peter so much.
RIP Peter, thank you for the beautiful music. Everything Dies.
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He can't read this.
He wasn't a Christian
Gotta love the honesty. "We are solely going to make music to get chicks."
I like to think that Steele, Eddie, Abott Brothers, Hendrix, Cornell, Prince, Bowoe, Campbell, Joplin, Cobain, Staley, all.the greats that were lost playing up in heaven in some cracking dive bar called the Halo
Halloween in Heaven
So interesting how rejection in his younger years affected his adult years. I can totally relate with that.
R.I.P. Peter Steele
Find the book "Soul on Fire" by Jeff Wagner. It's a bit of a rarity to find these days but it delves deeper into the history of the band and gives a more in depth account to the day Peter passed. It's so sad that he finally got himself straightened out and was gone shortly thereafter.
Read it earlier this year. Great in-depth look into Peter’s life.
He wasn't a Christian respect that
@@matimus100 I remember him saying he was your typical Christian, hippaChristian lol.
@@matimus100 He was raised Roman Catholic. Called himself an atheist for a while and returned to the Church in 06.
48 years is a good run. The last quarter or third of most lives is rendered hideous by age and infirmity so being spared that is no loss to the individual. Peter did some great work for which he'll be rightly remembered and gave joy to millions of fans.
They always gave me something great to look forward to every 3 or 4 years. It was always worth the wait.
I only discovered them quite recently. I missed out on some great music in the 90s. Making up for lost time!
He seemed like a nice man.
I always click on more Type O ♥️
I’m a massive Type O Negative/Carnivore fan & “World Coming Down” is my favorite album. I was fortunate enough to see them live for my first time in London,Ontario at the old “Embassy Hotel” in 1997 which was a very small club. Then I seen them many times at Harpos in Detroit many times as well as at the State Theatre in Detroit on a co-headlining bill with Cradle Of Filth.
I saw Pete right before he died and he was very sick. I was devastated to hear the news that he'd actually passed away. Truth.....he was sober and it was a travesty that his new found freedom was greeted with death. Rest In Power, Lord Petrus. O Negative Forever💚🖤💚🖤💚🖤💚🖤💚🖤💚🖤💚
Sometimes it's more toll on the body when you quit because it's like wtf I need that
Peter Steeles death makes me so sad, I'm so upset I wasn't born in an Era where I could've seen him live 😔
My favorite band of all time.
Same here. Nothing like them
My 2nd favorite.
💚💚💚 Me too, but I like goils
Mine too!!
@@goldentaco4970 So who would be your favorite then?
I gigged with Type O a few times in 2 past bands (Inner Sanctum, & Point Blank), and one time (1992-ish) Peter & the lineup on Slow, Deep & Hard came to our party and hung out the entire night. That is a time of laughs & philosophy I will never forget.
My friend Susey knew Peter even more personable, and told me much I didn't know about him.
Such a shame. I'd have loved to have seen how much further his talent would've taken him.
Inner Sanctum sounds familiar...🤔
Did you guys ever play Milwaukee Metalfest?
7:15 at that show, I recall the glass and bottle on the amp, well he finished the bottle.
Just so wild, I was there!
makes me sad everyttime I think of Pete
Amen 🙏 I miss Typ O
Do you have a poster of him behind your bathroom door?
@@itsruf1 why do you care this is a recurring comment?
I'm glad that I was able to see them live with Ozzy and Pantera. He was truly larger than life. They are my favorite and his voice is the only one to ever touch my soul. He could never be replaced. RIP Peter 💔
He wasn't a Christian
@@matimus100 In his last interview, he said that he had rejoined the church. I believe he was Catholic.
Few people listen to his warnings... he warned his fans before he died, he was pretty clear about it.
Warn about what?
Go on?
How? He was always talking about death.
World Coming Down....pure perfection. Played that album on repeat for a long time.
Peter just is NOT replaceable. I’ve never heard a voice like that in my whole life. RIP 🪦 Big guy🙏🏼
Bloddy Kisses was an absolute masterclass of an album. I also dug a few songs on October Rust (my girlfriends girlfriend and wolf moon in particular) but the super slow chugging stuff didnt get me at all and I kinda gave up after that. But, Bloddy Kisses is still on regular rotation all these yrs later, its perfect if you want spooky metal.
Absolutely nothing about him converting to Christianity anywhere to be found. By far one of the most surprising and important decisions of his life is completely omitted from a supposed biography, and instead all they want to focus on is his drug abuse. What a joke. If you are going to tell the story of a man's journey, you should include all of the major pieces, not just the ones that suit your narrative.
I'm not sure that 'converting to Christianity ' is the right phrase.
Apparently he became reconciled with Catholicism in his later years. But that isn't a'Conversion'.
Peter is still getting girls in the afterlife...lol
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He is a dream walker. Many have experienced him in dreams. Myself included.
Lmao rigghhhhht
@Unicorn swirl What did he do/say to you? If that ever also happens to me, I'll probably d!3 of fear.
Anya Miranda
Fear? I’m over here taking notes! 😆
Black No 1. I love that song especially Christian woman, love to death & cinnamon girl.. he is so dark & handsome.. I love his voice soo deep & sexy
RIP Pete Steele
Im a bloke and i feel the same way :) No one else like him
@@thebooger_boy4002 I'm a guy and straight, but I still think he was sexy. Lmao
@@thebooger_boy4002 u gotta admit that his music and the images it conjures certainly is sexy. imo that ability makes him sexy!
Black no 1. Is a great tune I just think they have so many better songs than that one
@@petesteele4720 yes I agree with you on that but I also like their early records such as “ Slow deep & hard “ The origins of the feces “.
I liked the sense of humor these guys had. “Symphony for the Devil” is a great concert film, and worth checking out. I think around this time of year, always feel like hearing October Rust and World Coming Down. They didn’t make a whole lot of albums, and every one of them got better than the last. He died after their best album.
Not true: Bloody Kisses is their best (and 2nd), but I'll give you that Dead Again is pretty damn good album.
Never knew this stuff about type-o-neg! I can appreciate music that reflects z writers progression through various emotions, states of mind, experiences, impetuousness, and turmoil. I am a man of empathy; it (they) speaks 2 me; teaches me.
Saw them open for Soundgarden At Sunken Gardens S,A. Tex & had my mind blown away. RIP- PS
I'm so sad about the fact I could never meet Steele. I have started to listen to T'ON recently and I'm so in love with the music they have made.
Steele was an unusual rock star: wise, eloquent, vulnerable, witty and a born again Christian in the last months of his life.
He was a born again Christian?! I had no idea, that's unexpected but pretty cool fact
@@i.cant.sleep.anymore yeah he was! 🤘🏻
He was Catholic, not a born again Christian
@@marierivera4320 he was raised in the catholic faith. Fell out and became born again in the months before his death.
My sister used to be a promo girl for Jager, and worked a show as the bands personal bottle girl. She was in Minneapolis and i was in Arizona, but she had the band sign her VIP badge for me and i got a phone call from Peter that I'll never forget. Im jealous that I didnt get to hang out with them like she did (she's a country music, small town girl and only knew the band because I listened to them), but the photos of Peter with my sister propped up on his shoulder are priceless.
I miss Peter more than any other musician, even Bon Scott.
I don't know if the world could handle Peter anymore though. He was not made for politically correct world. RIP #OctoberRust
I totally agree. I miss him the most out of all musicians and October Rust is my favorite album by them!
More than Dimebag? wut
@@headshot217 I'll give you that, Dimebag is also a huge tragedy
@@backinblack1982True, Pantera crushes this band
@@headshot217 That's a common view among people who feel that way
My old band played a club like that in NYC while on tour. We were literally in a basement that looked like a dungeon and there was a literal coffin in the wall at the far end with a lock on it that was actually a door and you needed a password to get in. I wonder if it was the same place. It was called the Lit Lounge
Miss TON so much....Thanks god we have a October Noir, guys continue great legacy and fill the void💚
check out FOUR STROKE BARON from Arizona. They're like if TON went more prog!
new wave metal!
My Dad loved Type O in the 90s and I was born in 99 so I grew up listening to them and begging my Dad to turn on Type O growing up, I remember when the news broke about Peter's death my Dad and Uncles were planning on taking me to see them it would've been the first year I could've went and seen them live. I had cried for days learning Peter Steele had died but my Dad recently gave all his tour shirts from the times he had gone to see Type O in person which was whenever he had the chance. I love listening to the stories of my Dad and Uncles from when they had met the band over the years since Type O had started touring until 2010, I never got to meet Peter Steele or anyone else from Type O but they all seem like wonderful and down to earth people.
Out of all the people I never met, I miss this guy the most.
Today is the day when you left us... Can feel the same pain still.... RIP Legend 🙌🤘
He wasn't a Christian