“At the time Roadrunner was a tiny little label, and Peter wanted out,” explains Monte Conner, the A&R rep who ended up bringing Type O Negative back into the Roadrunner fold. Ties to hardcore weren’t the only thing that Peter retained from the Carnivore days – he was still locked into a contract with his former label, Roadrunner. “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. Enjoy, and always use protection.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. Since today marks the 27th anniversary of the release of Bloody Kisses, the album on which Type O made this jump from crossover-thrash provocateurs to goth metal sex gods, we decided to round up 10 of their tracks which are guaranteed to have listeners fanning their face in no time. As a result, their music became synonymous with sex in nothing but combat boots, and has been the soundtrack to many a metalhead’s never-though-this-could-happen-to-me stories. Not only that, but Steele’s avowed love of and dedication to women as his superiors gave their albums a sense of worship, as though its makers had fallen to their knees in front of the goddess of feminine sexuality. After a short stint as a ragtag hardcore act, the Brooklyn band - led by the towering, rumbling, Playgirl-posing Pete Steele - refined their style into a scintillating mix of goth metal, psychedelia, and doom that sounded like the blood rushing through your ears (among other places). There are bedroom bands, and then there are bedroom bands, and then there’s Type O Negative.
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