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Type O Negative is a gothic metal band from Brooklyn, New York. The band is well known for their dry, morbid and self-ironic sense of humour and their (usually) 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. Their first album, Slow Deep And Hard, was voted the greatest heavy metal album of all time by a recent online poll.
Peter Steele lead vocals, writing, bass
Josh Silver keyboards
Kenny Hickey guitars
Johnny Kelly drums (from 1994)
Sal Abruscato drums (to 1993)
1991 Slow Deep And Hard album
1992 Origin Of The Feces album
1993 Bloody Kisses album
1996 October Rust album
1998 After Dark documentary
1999 World Coming Down album
2000 Least Worst Of album
2003 Life Is Killing Me album
The alternative "Blood and Fire" present on the Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack (1995) can now also be found on the bonus CD of Life Is Killing Me.
The album Life Is Killing Me was originally to be titled The Dream Is Dead leading some fans to believe that the band is over.
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) - they are however tame by todays standards.
The band like to refer to themselves as "The Drab Four," as homage 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 The Beatles Day Tripper on World Coming Down
Covers include Light My Fire, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, Pictures of Matchstick Men with Ozzy Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Hey Joe, Cinnamon Girl and Summer Breeze
Incorrectly attributed covers include Possession, Angel, Smells Like Teen Spirit and Hit Me Baby One More Time.
Frontman Peter Steele has appeared naked in Playgirl.
Official band web site
http://www.scaruffi.com/music/metal.html Lists the first album as best heavy metal album ever
Type O Negative is a gothic metal band from Brooklyn, New York. The band is well known for their dry, morbid and self-ironic sense of humour and their (usually) 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. Their first album, Slow Deep And Hard, was voted the greatest heavy metal album of all time by a recent online poll.