With a heavy heart I’m sad to report that Type O Negative frontman, Peter Steele, has died.
Peter Steele, 1962-2010
I can’t claim to have liked Type O Negative since the beginning, as I never heard of them until I saw the video for Christian Woman on MTV (back when they actually played music). However, I’ve loved their work ever since.
I first saw Type O Negative live in the fall of 1997 on the October Rust tour at Annie’s Garage in Cincinnati, which is now unfortunately the parking lot for Cinergy Field. That was a great show, because Annie’s was a small little hole-in-the-wall, Type O Negative was just getting popular, and it was a weeknight, so I was able to stand a mere ten feet from the stage looking up at the 6’7″ man-mountain known as Peter Steele. For such a small club, the sound was great, and it was an awesome show.
I saw him again a few years later for the World Coming Down tour at Bogart’s, which despite being a bigger venue, had a lot shittier sound. (I guess that place was better suited to all the death metal shows I saw there.)
So good-bye, Peter. You will be missed. I guess as your song states, Everything Dies.
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