Here are the top 10 Type O Negative songs. We have come up with a list of the band’s top 10 tracks, which is guaranteed to send blood rushing through your ears. Until Peter Steele’s death in 2010, which signified the death of the band, they had released seven albums and done several tours across the globe. Although the album was not quite as successful as Bloody Kisses, it was certified gold and made its debut on the Billboard Top 200 at position 42, making it their first album to achieve that feat. Another album dubbed October Rust, which explored the themes of sexuality and nature, followed. The album also became the first for their record label (Roadrunner Records) to be certified platinum by the RIAA.
Nevertheless, the album was unique, and the way the music flowed with little hidden messages proved that the guys were geniuses. Some songs like “Christian Woman,” ran for over seven minutes, although the track was later edited. Although the songs were incredibly catchy, they were somehow multifaceted and a bit elliptical. The album featured tracks that had a blend of Black Sabbath with a sprinkle of Beatles-inspired pop. Although most of their fans expected more abrasive punk songs from the album dubbed Bloody Kisses, they got something totally different.
However, their breakthrough album would come two years later, in 1993. The band’s first album, Slow, Deep, and Hard, which was released in 1991, was a continuation of where their former band had left off. In addition, Peter Steele’s love and adoration for women make them sound like they worship a goddess of female sexuality. The band also changed their style of music from a ragtag hardcore act to a blend of goth metal, psychedelia, and gothic rock. The band added Kenny Hickey and Sal Abruscato to create Repulsion, which later changed its name to Type O Negative. After the break up of Carnivore, a New York-based crossover band, Peter Steele and Josh Silver joined up to form, Fallout, a short-lived band. There are bands that produce lustful music, bands whose music is overly sensual, and then there is Type O Negative. The official cause of Steele's death is pending an autopsy.Photo: melle, slight crop by User:Wickethewok, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons His untimely death is tragic - a great loss to us and to music,” she said.įuneral arrangements remain unknown, but the family is asking fans for privacy. “He was more than our brother, he was our son. He is survived by five sisters, the eldest of whom praised him as a larger-than-life character whose death casts a shadow on the music industry." Steele was to begin writing and recording new music as a follow up for the band’s 2007 album “Dead Again,” according to the band’s Web site. Type O Negative had it’s biggest year back in 1993, when the band’s album “Bloody Kisses” went platinum with the hits “Christian Woman” and “Black No.1.” It turned out to be a hoax of Steele’s own warped sense of humor. In May 2005, rumors swirled of Steele’s death after the band’s Web site posted a headstone with his name and the dates “1962-2005.”
“He often talked about how he was just an average Joe from Brooklyn whose happiest days were back when he worked picking up garbage for NYC’s Dept of Parks and Recreation,” according to MTV.com. At 6'7" he towered over the rest of the members of his band and would often roll his eyes into the back of his head while singing in videos and in live concerts. Steele was most known for his deep, rich, natural baritone voice. Steele had a reported history of substance abuse, but his band mates say he “had been enjoying a long period of sobriety and improved health.” "We are truly saddened to lose our friend and appreciate the tremendous outpouring today from around the world." "Peter Steele passed away last night of what appears to be heart failure,” according to a message written to fans Thursday on the band’s Web site. Peter Steele, the lead singer and bass player of gothic/metal band Type O Negative, a groundbreaking group known for its dramatic lyrical emphasis on the themes of romance, depression, and death, died suddenly Wednesday night.