cat, so I had to make it extremely metaphorical. "No one wants to hear a guy who's six-foot-eight with long black hair and fangs crying about his. Type O Negative Albums and Discography AllMusic Discography Type O Negative Follow Artist + Brooklyn-based metal band that gleefully wallows in all the clichs of goth rock, from sex to death to Christianity to vampires. As quoted in Revolver Mag, Steele stated that he kept the lyrics intentionally vague. The title track on the album "Bloody Kisses" is actually about the death of Steele's beloved cat Venus. While "World Coming Down" is the most notoriously dark Type O Negative album and "Life Is Killing Me" contains multiple songs about Steele's father, they aren't the only ones that describe tragedy in Steele's life. It made him very upset to sing some of those songs, even though he wrote them."
According to an interview with bandmate Josh Silver for Revolver Mag, "Peter had problems performing on the record because it hit home so much. On April 14, 2010, vocalist/bassist/songwriter Peter Steele died of sepsis caused by diverticulitis (initially reported as heart failure), effectively ending the band. Peter Steele (born Peter Ratajczyk) had already garnered infamy in New York in the mid-80s, when he sang in a thrash-metal band called Carnivore. Original drummer Sal Abruscato left Type O Negative in 1994, and Johnny Kelly took his place in the band. Type O Negative were prophets of the moral vacuum, for which for which paradise is simply and sadly the equivalent of Auschwitz, but without the inscription of Arbeit Macht Frei. In particular, the songs "Everything Dies" and "Everyone I Love is Dead" from the album "World Coming Down" directly referenced deaths in Steele's family, including his father's. Type O Negative was an American Gothic Metal band from Brooklyn/New York City, formed in 1989. Type O Negative were an American gothic metal band formed in Brooklyn, New York City in 1989 by Peter Steele (bass, lead vocals), Kenny Hickey (guitar, co-lead vocals), Josh Silver (keyboards, backing vocals), and Sal Abruscato (drums, percussion), who was later replaced by Johnny Kelly. Ultimately, Steele was convinced to go on tour with the band, forcing him to quit the job he loved at the Parks Department. He resisted for long enough that it became a source of conflict within the band, even causing their drummer to leave Type O Negative. Steele was still making music while working for his day job (in fact, per Revolver Mag, Steele once stated that he wrote one of their biggest hits while driving a garbage truck) but he wasn't interested in touring. You can picture him going through the park doing his thing, saying hello to all the old ladies and probably bringing bagels for the homeless." He liked his routine and he really liked working for the Parks Department. In an interview with Revolver Mag, former vice president of A&R for Roadrunner Records, Monte Conner, who was responsible for signing Type O Negative, stated that this was the time that Peter Steele was happiest. The discography of Type O Negative, an American gothic metal band, consists of seven studio albums, three live albums, two compilation albums, two video albums, sixteen singles and ten music videos.
In the time between Carnivore and Type O Negative, Steele went to work for the New York City Parks Department.
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