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'''Type O Negative''' is a [[Gothic_metal#Gothic_doom|gothic-doom metal]] band from [[Brooklyn]], band with [[doom metal]] elements from [[Brooklyn]], [[New York]]. The band is well known for their dry, morbid and self-[[ironic]] sense of humour and their often slow and brooding music. The band rose from the ashes of the band [[Carnivore (band)|Carnivore]] and gained popularity — especially with a female audience — with their songs "Black No. 1" and "Christian Woman" from the ''Bloody Kisses'' album. |
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==Current members== |
==Current members== |
Revision as of 03:08, 18 January 2006
This article is about a band. For information about the blood type see blood type.
Type O Negative | |
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File:Typeonegative.jpg Left to right: Josh Silver, Peter Steele, Johnny Kelly, Kenny Hickey | |
Background information | |
Origin | Brooklyn, New York, USA |
Years active | 1990–present |
Members | Peter Steele Josh Silver Kenny Hickey Johnny Kelly |
Past members | Sal Abruscato |
Type O Negative is a gothic-doom metal band from Brooklyn, band with doom metal elements from Brooklyn, New York. The band is well known for their dry, morbid and self-ironic sense of humour and their often 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.
Current members
- Peter Steele – Lead vocals, bass guitar
- Josh Silver – Keyboards, synth, effects, programming
- Kenny Hickey – Lead & rhythm guitars, vocals
- Johnny Kelly – Drums, percussion (1994–)
Former members
- Sal Abruscato – Drums (1991–1993)
Discography
- 1991 Slow Deep and Hard album
- 1992 The Origin of the Feces faux live album
- 1993 Bloody Kisses album
- 1996 October Rust album
- 1998 After Dark documentary/video collection
- 1999 World Coming Down album
- 2000 Least Worst Of retrospective album
- 2003 Life is Killing Me album
Trivia
Names
- Working titles for the album World Coming Down included "Prophets Of Doom" and "Aggroculture".
- The band's original name was Subzero, but was changed to Type O Negative after discovering another group had already claimed the name.
- The album Life Is Killing Me was originally titled The Dream Is Dead after the name of the closing song. This led some fans to believe that the band was retiring.
Behaviour
- Peter Steele's singature actions during a concert include wearing his bass with a large chain instead of a regular strap and pulling off his bass strings at the end of the concert.
- The band regularly tunes their guitars to B (tunings run thus: BEADGB for guitars, BEAD for bass — the same tuning as used for 7-string guitars and 5-string basses respectively), rather than the traditional E (which would run EADGBE for guitars, EADG for bass). This enables the band to get a heavier sound.
- The band like to refer to themselves as "The Drab Four", in homage to 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 three Beatles songs in a medley on World Coming Down.
- Frontman Peter Steele has appeared naked in Playgirl.
- My Girlfriend's Girlfriend and Love You To Death music videos were banned by MTV according to the After Dark documentary although they are tame by today's standards.
Soundtracks
- The remix of Blood and Fire present on the Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack (1995) can also be found on the bonus CD of Life Is Killing Me.
- The computer game Descent 2 featurs a shortened, instrumental version of the track Haunted.
- The Blood computer game by Monolith Productions features the track Love You To Death.
- The song Haunted appears on The Blair Witch Project 'soundtrack' CD. The CD didn't feature music that was in the movie, but was supposed to contain music from a "tape that was found in the woods with the lost people's gear".
- Their music can be found throughout Nosferatu: The First Vampire, an edition of the classic 1922 vampire movie.
Covers
- Studio-recorded covers include a superb and extremely reworked rendition of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid," the tongue-in-cheek "Angry Inch" (from Hedwig and the Angry Inch), "Pictures of Matchstick Men" with Ozzy Osbourne, two versions of "Black Sabbath" (one with the original lyrics and one rewritten by Peter Steele to be from Satan's perspective), Jimi Hendrix' "Hey Joe" (remade as "Hey Pete" and woven into a multiple-song story arc), Deep Purple's "Highway Star," The Beatles' "Day Tripper," Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl," Seals and Crofts' "Summer Breeze" (an unauthorized version of which, featuring modified lyrics by Peter Steele, is called "Summer Girl," and includes the TON-original outro "Set Me On Fire"). They have also covered The Doors' "Light My Fire" (which Steele described as "probably the greatest song ever written" before apologizing for having "destroyed it," true to TON's self-deprecating sense of humor) and Black Sabbath's "N.I.B." live.
- Incorrectly attributed covers include Sarah McLachlan's "Possession," Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," and Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby One More Time." The mistaken version of "Possession" was actually a purposefully TON-style recording made in 1996 by Dino Covelli as a school project which later began circulating the Internet through Napster. The Nirvana 'cover' most likely is the cover done by band The Wounded, who share strong similarities to TON. Other cover songs appear to be faked by speeding up or slowing down the original artists recordings.
- The song "Angel" is sometimes incorrectly credited to TON. This song was actually recorded in 1998 by the now-defunct German band Astral Sleep.
Album cover artwork
- The cover art for the initial version of Origin of the Feces was an extreme close up of frontman Peter Steele's anus with his hands spreading his buttocks. Later pressings featured different artwork. [1]
- The album cover for Slow Deep and Hard is a distorted and fuzzed out image of sexual penetration.
Phlogiston Verdigris
An individual named Phlogiston Verdigris has been mentioned by the band in at least two different contexts. He is mentioned as the conductor of the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra in the liner notes for Bloody Kisses, and the quote, "Better to be hated for who you are than loved for who you are not" is attributed to him on the back of the The Least Worst of Type O Negative.
The name "Phlogiston Verdigris" could be interpreted as a stand-in for the two common colors in Type O Negative album covers and merchandise:
- orange - Once the basis for a popular chemical theory, "phlogiston" is defined by Wiktionary as "the hypothetical fiery principle formerly assumed to be a necessary constituent of combustible bodies and to be given up by them in burning". [2]
- green - On the other hand, "verdigris" is defined by Wiktionary as "a blue-green powder, copper acetate, that forms as a patina on copper, brass or bronze that has weathered; also used as a paint pigment" [3]. The chemical makeup of verdigris is (Cu(C2H3O2)2 . 2Cu(OH)2)
External links
- Official band web site
- Roadrunner Records page about the band (news, photos, music, videos...)
- Cobblestone Grave (a very comprehensive fansite)
- Type O Negative lyrics at DarkLyrics
- Type O Negative discography at MusicBrainz