With the money they received from the label to facilitate the recording of the album at Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, Type O instead used it to buy cheap vodka, and re-recorded their debut in Silver's basement. This was perceived as ironic by the band, as Josh Silver is Jewish (they made light of the situation on a later album with a song titled "We Hate Everyone").īack in the States, Roadrunner Records held Type O Negative to a contractual obligation of recording a live album. Their first tour following the album's release was met with hostility, primarily by Dutch political activists who failed to recognize Peter Steele's tongue-in-cheek humor regarding certain social topics, which resulted in false accusations that the band's members were misogynists and Nazi sympathizers. The songs were long, multi-part theatrical epics, with lyrical topics ranging from heartbreak to getting revenge on a cheating lover, and even contemplating suicide.
Produced under the working title None More Negative, Type O's first album Slow Deep and Hard incorporated dragging dirge riffs, maniacal punk-metal outbursts, and droning industrial and gothic atmospheres. Roadrunner signed them to a five-album record deal, and in 1991 the band quickly released their debut, Slow Deep and Hard. Due to the band already having the "o" negative tattoos for subzero, they decided to name the band "Type O Negative." The band released a demo, which caught the ear of executives at Road Racer Records which later became Roadrunner Records, a prominent American label for metal and hard rock in the late eighties and early nineties. They originally named themselves "Repulsion" and "Sub-Zero," but after an extensive search through the Yellow Pages for potential names, they realized "subzero" had already been taken. Soon after, Silver was convinced to join, with fellow childhood friend Kenny Hickey following suit. Two years later, Steele recruited long-time friend, Sal Abruscato, Type O Negative's original drummer. The band's lyrics were harsh and very politically incorrect, dealing with race, religion, war, and misogyny, with a sound reminiscent of speed metal mixed with hardcore break-downs and three- chord punk rock.įollowing the release of their second album, Retaliation, Carnivore went on hiatus. Carnivore spent much of the mid-eighties playing venues in and around the East Coast, including the now defunct CBGBs on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and the now defunct L’amours in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Meanwhile, Steele went on to found the thrash metal band Carnivore. Shortly thereafter, Silver left Fallout to form Original Sin, which combined the sounds of eighties hair metal and new wave. It enjoyed modest success on college radio. The band released one EP in 1981, titled Batteries Not Included.
He was joined by fellow teens John Campos, Louie Beato, and Josh Silver. Type O Negative's members were originally in a band called Fallout, formed in the early 1980s by then-teenager Peter Steele.
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