The pairing of Type O and the Exploited was cited by one rockcrit rocket scientist as "Slayer opening for the Banana Splits." Soon after the cartoon credits roll, Type O heads off to Europe where the Nazi-rumor mill was in full swing. November 1991: Type O Negative hit the road on a package tour sandwiched between Biohazard and British cartoon punks, the Exploited. But so what? Everyone was listening to Nirvana back then, anyway. Such oversimplifications of the band's raison d'etre robbed SD&H from reaching a wider audience. It wasn't too long until Steele played Jonathan Swift to the confederacy of rock dunces everywhere: Politically correct trust-fund owners decried Steele with such knee-jerk epithets as "misogynist scumbag" and "Nazi bastard," despite the fact that the singer actually had the nerve to be in a family with five sisters and demand that a nice Jewish boy like Josh Silver be in his band. "I Know You're Fucking Someone Else" reflected homicidal anger over a relationship that was so deep, Steele attempted suicide over it. "Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity" (a.k.a. The album tempers aggressive and dirge-rock tempos with Hickey's razor-sharp harmonics, Steele's heavily processed bass (described by band members as "a baritone guitar" and Silver's array of keyboard textures. Arriving at page 136, he sees an ad for a blood bank who is paying top dollar for a particular blood type: O negative.ġ991: The quartet hunker down at Systems Two studios for six weeks and give birth to the debut Type O Negative album, Slow, Deep And Hard. Steele unwinds by pursuing his favorite hobby: reading the phone book. Steele commandeers keyboardist Josh Silver. Abruscato enlists guitarist Kenny Hickey. Steele wants to do something that won't be as strictly defined as the grind-and-grumble Carnivore, so he agrees. ġ990: Steele's longtime friend Sal Abruscato asks him if he wants to start a band. Bassist Peter Steele pursues a career at the New York City Parks Dept, where he learns a variety of skills including how to pick up human waste with a rake and new metaphors for maggots ("dancing rice". Type O Negative - Discography (1991-2009)ġ989: After two records and great frustration with musical direction and the inability to find good tailors for their custom-designed loincloths, thrash-core future primitives Carnivore disband.
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