The album cycle for October Rust would prove to be the beginning of the end for frontman and bassist Peter Steele.
The album was notable for featuring more ballads and being a departure from their doom and goth metal sound while also featuring a cover of the Neil Young song “Cinnamon Girl”. October Rust was intentionally sensual just to get the high heels in the door. 1’ so he decided to design the band towards getting more chicks. Kenny Hickey revealed to author Jon Wiederhorn, “Peter saw how many women he was getting after 1993’s Bloody Kisses and the song ‘Black No. Steele wanted to focus the band’s sound on appealing more to women. “October Rust was intentionally sensual just to get the high heels in the door.” – Kenny Hickey Following the success of Bloody Kisses, the band turned their attention to their follow-up record, October Rust in 1996. Sal Abruscato left the band following the release of Bloody Kisses and was replaced by Johnny Kelley. There were people dressed up and walking around on leashes and we were going, ‘What the hell are we doing here?’ We were just four guys from Brooklyn. “There were people dressed up and walking around on leashes…” – Sal AbruscatoĪbruscato recalled how the band was booked to play a club in New York that turned out to be a sex dungeon, “It was this underground BDSM place with all this torture equipment. The second single released from the record was “Christian Woman” which had a successful run on US rock radio and along with the album’s first single, pushed the record to go Platinum in the United States.Īs the band’s stock rose, the tour to support the record became bigger and more outrageous. Steele told Revolver Magazine how he wrote the song, while working as a truck driver, “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. The song’s sarcastic lyrics were loosely inspired by a relationship Steele had with a goth. Also overlooked by critics was that Type O Negative’s keyboardist Josh Silver was Jewish.īloody Kisses featured the band’s best known song “Black No. Songs such as “We Hate Everyone” and “Kill All The White People” were used to dispel those claims. Many in the media slammed the band for being racists. In addition to themes of love, sex and death, the album was also used as an opportunity to attack Type O’Negative’s critics. He went from screaming his head off and writing these furious, angry lyrics to focused primarily on romance, love, sex, and death.” According to the band’s guitarist Kenny Hickey, “Peter decided that melody was really where it’s at, which is a hard thing to do. The goth element wasn’t the only new thing brought to Type O Negative’s sound on Bloody Kisses. “He went from screaming his head off and writing these furious, angry lyrics to focused primarily on romance, love, sex, and death.” – Kenny Hickey It wasn’t until Bloody Kisses in 1993 that the band’s goth metal sound took center stage. The following year, the band released The Origin Of Feces, a faux live record that featured a hostile live audience. Type O Negative’s first record in 1991, Slow Deep and Hard featured songs heavily influenced by doom and thrash metal. They originally called themselves Sub Zero before finally landing on the name Type O Negative. People thought 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. Type O Negative drummer Sal Abruscato told Metal Hammer Magazine, “Peter enjoyed messing with people. Steele was known for having a dark sense of humor. “Peter enjoyed messing with people.” – Sal Abruscato The band’s music explored some pretty dark themes. Several years prior to the formation of Type O Negative in 1989, Peter Steele fronted and played bass in another band named Carnivore. I think it was part of what made us appealing. He was able to be very honest about how hurt he was during a lot of these periods.
We had songs like ‘I Know You’re F-ing Someone Else’.
He didn’t have girlfriends growing up.Ī lot of Type O’s music was written from the perspective of someone who couldn’t get laid. Type O Negative’s keyboardist Josh Silver revealed in the book, The Oral History of Metal, how frontman Peter Steele’s frustrations as a teenager and young adult influenced his songwriting., “Peter was big and considered himself kind of goofy. “He was able to be very honest about how hurt he was during a lot of these periods.” – Josh Silver The band mixed themes of romance, drugs, depression, and death. Led by imposing frontman Peter Steele, Type O Negative brought goth metal to the masses during the 90’s.
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