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Type O Negative Information
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'Type O Negative' is a gothic-doom metal band from Brooklyn, New York. The band is well known for their dry, morbid and self-ironic sense of humour and their often slow and brooding music. The band rose from the ashes of the band Carnivore and gained popularity ” especially with a female audience ” with their songs "Black No. 1" and "Christian Woman" from the Bloody Kisses album.
Current members
*Peter Steele “ Lead vocals, bass guitar
*Josh Silver “ Keyboards, synth, effects, programming
*Kenny Hickey “ Lead & rhythm guitars, vocals
*Johnny Kelly “ Drums, percussion (1994“)
Former members
*Sal Abruscato “ Drums (1991“1993)
Discography
* 1991 Slow Deep and Hard album
* 1992 The Origin of the Feces faux live album
* 1993 Bloody Kisses album
* 1996 October Rust album
* 1998 After Dark documentary/video collection
* 1999 World Coming Down album
* 2000 Least Worst Of retrospective album
* 2003 Life is Killing Me album
Trivia
* The remix of "Blood and Fire" present on the Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack (1995) can also be found on the bonus CD of Life Is Killing Me.
* The album Life Is Killing Me was originally titled The Dream Is Dead (the name of the closing song), leading some fans to believe that the band was retiring.
* The band regularly tunes their guitars to B (tunings run thus: BEADGB for guitars, BEAD for bass ” the same tuning as used for 7-string guitars and 5-string basses respectively), rather than the traditional E (which would run EADGBE for guitars, EADG for bass). This enables the band to get a heavier sound.
* The computer game Descent 2 featured a shortened, instrumental version of the track "Haunted".
* The Blood computer game by Monolith Productions featured the track "Love You To Death."
* At least two videos were banned by MTV ("My Girlfriend's Girlfriend" and "Love You To Death" according to the After Dark documentary) ” though they are tame by today's standards.
* The band like to refer to themselves as "The Drab Four," in homage to The Beatles' "The Fab Four" moniker. On the reverse side of one T-shirt they referred to themselves as "the Rehab Four." They also cover three Beatles songs in a medley on World Coming Down.
* Studio-recorded covers include a superb and extremely reworked rendition of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid," the tongue-in-cheek "Angry Inch" (from Hedwig and the Angry Inch), "Pictures of Matchstick Men" with Ozzy Osbourne, two versions of "Black Sabbath" (one with the original lyrics and one rewritten by Peter Steele to be from Satan's perspective), Jimi Hendrix' "Hey Joe" (remade as "Hey Pete" and woven into a multiple-song story arc), Deep Purple's "Highway Star," The Beatles' "Day Tripper," Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl," Seals and Crofts' "Summer Breeze" (an unauthorized version of which, featuring modified lyrics by Peter Steele, is called "Summer Girl," and includes the TON-original outro "Set Me On Fire"). They have also covered The Doors' "Light My Fire" (which Steele described as "probably the greatest song ever written" before apologizing for having "destroyed it," true to TON's self-deprecating sense of humor) and Black Sabbath's "N.I.B." live.
* Incorrectly attributed covers include Sarah McLachlan's "Possession," Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," and Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby One More Time." The mistaken version of "Possession" was actually a purposefully TON-style recording made in 1996 by Dino Covelli as a school project which later began circulating the Internet through Napster. The Nirvana 'cover' most likely is the cover done by band The Wounded, who share strong similarities to TON. Other cover songs appear to be faked by speeding up or slowing down the original artists recordings.
* The song "Angel" is sometimes incorrectly credited to TON. This song was actually recorded in 1998 by the now-defunct German band Astral Sleep.
* Frontman Peter Steele has appeared naked in Playgirl.
* The album cover of Origin of the Feces was originally thought to be the mouth of a lamprey, but closer inspection revealed it to be a close up of frontman Peter Steele's anus with his hands spreading his buttocks. The album was reissued with a different cover after discovering what the original cover really was.
* The song "Haunted" appears on The Blair Witch Project 'soundtrack' CD. The CD didn't feature music that was in the movie, but was supposed to contain music from a "tape that was found in the woods with the lost people's gear".
*Their music can be found throughout Nosferatu: The First Vampire, an edition of the classic 1922 vampire movie.
*The album cover for Slow Deep and Hard is a distorted and fuzzed out image of sexual penetration.
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