TYPE O NEGATIVE: CONSIDER PETER STEELE AS A POSSIBLE…
The reputedly 6’8″ Steele left behind a musical legacy as towering as his physical presence – seven total albums with Type O Negative and two with the thrash/crossover forerunner Carnivore. His ’90s debut on the basis of two immensely popular Type O Negative albums — 1993’s Bloody Kisses and 1996’s October Rust — not only positioned him as a pioneer of the goth metal sound, but as a sex idol as well. He even made headlines for posing naked in a 1995 Playgirl edition.
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Born Petrus Thomas Ratajczyk on Jan. 4, 1962 in Brooklyn, New York, he was the youngest of six total children with five older sisters. He formed his first band, Fallout, in 1979 and later adopted the moniker ‘Lord Petrus Steele’ upon founding Carnivore just a couple years later. From the ashes of Carnivore came Type O Negative, who radically altered their sound and distanced themselves from the thrashy overtones of their first pair of records and went head-first into a resplendent hybrid of Black Sabbath and The Beatles, draped in a vampiric aura and bathed in lyrical cynicism, gallows Read More: Type O Negative Remember Peter Steele on Would-Be 60th Birthday | https://loudwire.com/type-o-negative-remember-peter-steele-60th-birthday/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
