“The scenario from Kill You Tonight literally happened to him – he took the D-train to Brighton Beach and caught her screwing on the sand!” “That record was about his ex-girlfriend at the time,” Sal says. But, where Carnivore drew from Peter’s imagination, these new songs were about Peter’s own recent experiences.
That first release is a furious, bilious entity that locks horns with love, infidelity and violence. Reconnecting with ex-Fallout bandmate Josh Silver on keyboards and pulling in Kenny Hickey on guitars, the then-unnamed band gathered at Brooklyn’s Marine Park for their first official band meeting.Ĭycling through names such as Subzero and New Minority, they decided on the name Repulsion for their first demo – material that would later be remastered into Type O Negative’s debut release Slow, Deep And Hard after one final rebrand. This spur-of-the-moment decision set in motion the formation of one of the 90s’ most distinctive and successful metal bands.
I’m like, ‘Yeah, cool man!’ just saying anything so I could play with the guy!” He nods, saying he’s always wanted to have a band with electronica – keyboards, samples and things like that. I asked if he wanted to hang out and jam, have some fun. “His father answered the door and let me down, and there’s Peter sitting in bed watching TV, having just cut all his hair off! He had just took the New York Police Department test he didn’t want to play music anymore. “I heard the news and figured I’d go over unannounced and see how he was doing,” says Sal. Peter may not have wanted to be a star, but fate had other plans in mind and it wasn’t long before it came knocking (literally). Peter was happy doing that – he was still making music, but he wasn’t so interested in becoming a star.” “Peter was working at the Parks Department and Louie became a bus driver.
“When Carnivore eventually broke up, the guys got regular jobs,” Richard Termini says. Before I started, Louie and Peter worked there too, so the boss suggested I go to Louie to take drum lessons and we became buddies.”Įven in the glory days of 80s music industry excess, a hardcore/thrash crossover band had their work cut out if they wanted to succeed, and Carnivore’s lack of touring ensured they’d never pull in big bucks. “I was apprenticing at this Latino blacksmith shop that made cowbells they’d sell to lots of big Latin American musical stars. “Louie and Peter lived just up the neighbourhood from me,” remembers Type O Negative founding member Sal Abruscato. Hickey and Kelly stated in a November 2010 interview with French music magazine Rock Hard that Type O Negative had broken up following Steele's death.As with most local scenes, 80s/90s Brooklyn was a somewhat incestuous entity, members of various bands intermingling and connecting along the road – which is how Louie Beato eventually came to tutor his successor.
The band went platinum with 1993's Bloody Kisses, and gold with 1996's October Rust, and gained a fanbase through seven studio albums, two best-of compilations, and concert DVDs.Steele died on April 14, 2010, at the age of 48 some sources report the cause of death as heart failure brought on by an aortic aneurysm, while others list sepsis caused by diverticulitis. Their lyrical emphasis on themes of romance, depression, and death resulted in the nickname "the Drab Four" (in homage to the Beatles' "Fab Four" moniker). Type O Negative was an American gothic metal band formed in Brooklyn, New York in 1989, by Peter Steele (lead vocals, bass), Kenny Hickey (guitar, co-lead vocals), Josh Silver (keyboards, backing vocals), and Sal Abruscato (drums, percussion), who was later replaced by Johnny Kelly. The band went platinum with 1993's Bloody Kisses, and gold with 1996's October Rust, and gained a fanbase through seven studio albums, two best-of.
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