Songs such as “we hate everyone” and “kill all the whte people” were used to dispel these claims. During the group’s previous tours across Europe in the early 90’s many in the media slammed the band for being rcists. Not only did the album discuss themes of love, sx and death it also was used as an opportunity to attack the band’s critics. He went from screaming his head off and writing these furious, angry lyrics to focused primarily on romance, love, sex, and death. “Peter decided that melody was really where it’s at,”“which was a hard thing to do. 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 That whole scene was attractive to him, so he made it his own.” But he was really into that sound – The Sisters Of Mercy, Swans, My Bloody Valentine. “Peter loved the goth girls,”“We used to go to the bars where they all hung out to pick them up. It wasn’t until 1993’s bloody kisses that the band’s the goth metal sound took center stage According to Sal The following year the band released 1992’s The Origin Of The Feces which was a faux live record that featured a hostile audience. Type O Negative’s first albm 1991’s Slow, Deep And Hard which was more heavily influenced by doom, thrash and metal. Type O Negative’s first record 1991’s slow deep and hard would feature songs written by Steele during his final days in Carnivore. They would originally called themselves Subzero before finally landing on the name Type O Negative. “People though he was serious when he was joking and joking when he was serious.”Ĭarnivore would only last for two albums before the band split and Steele went on to form a new band with longtime friend Josh Silver. Steele was known for having a dark sense of humor as Type O Negative drummer Sal Abruscato would tell Metal Hammer: The band’s music explored some pretty dark themes with song titles including “Jesus Hitler”, “Race War”, “Thermonuclear Warrior,” and “God is Dead”. The band took to the stage during live shows dressed as warriors in worn clothing and attached spikes to hockey gear. Several years prior to the formation of Type o negative in 1989, frontman Peter Steele was fronting and playing bass in another band named Carnivore. The new york quartet would merge the sounds of Black Sabbath with the Beatles along with some dashes of Joy Division, the Sisters of Mercy, Killing JOke and many others. No album was more synonymous with the group than their commercial peak 1993’s bloody kisses which went platinum selling over a million copies and bringing goth rock to the masses. The band mixed themes of romance, depression, and death resulting in the name the “the Drab Four” a nod to the Beatles “the fab four” monicker. Led by imposing frontman Peter Steele, Type O Negative would bring goth metal to the masses during the 90’s.
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