'I bet he would love to just be able to hang out, go to the bar, have a few drinks. 'I always said that he wanted to be a normal person, but because he was Peter, that was just not in the cards for him it was completely impossible,' he continued. When we were working on music and stuff, the end result, he was very serious about what he wanted, how he wanted something to sound. Just the opposite of what the music portrayed. He was always joking around - sarcastic, very self-deprecating humor. In a 2020 interview with Meltdown of Detroit's WRIF radio station, Kelly said about Steele: ' Peter, for the most part, he was a clown. I also can't believe that people like Stalin and Hitler are gonna go to the same place as Mother Teresa.' For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere. And then you start hoping there is a God. 'And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. 'Going through a midlife crisis and having many things change very quickly made me realize my mortality,' Steele told Decibel magazine in 2007. Ratajczyk on Januin Brooklyn, New York, he stood 6' 7' (201 cm) tall, and had a low, bass-heavy voice, which was one of the most recognizable features in TYPE O NEGATIVE's music.īefore forming TYPE O NEGATIVE, Steele played for the metal group FALLOUT and the thrash band CARNIVORE. Steele passed away in April 2010 from heart failure at the age of 48. And it would really stress the point of doing something as a tribute instead of trying to recreate something.' I think Peter would get a kick out of… He would get off on seeing a girl sing his songs, seeing a female sing them. And it's, like, all right, so what's the most remote thing from Peter? You'd have to do something completely abstract. When you think about doing some kind of tribute show, you're just gonna get all these people… Yes, Peter was very highly regarded by our peers and stuff like that, and you'll just get a bunch of dudes up there just trying to sound like Peter. I'd want a female vocalist - like Ann Wilson or something like that. 'Īsked who would handle Peter's vocal parts if they ever did end up doing a tribute concert, Johnny said: 'I don't know. And there's no way you're getting Josh to do anything like that. Anything that we do, it would have to be the three of us. But I know that for me, it would have to include Kenny and Josh as well. 'Maybe somewhere down the road there may be something that's… I don't know. I see it online all the time and the impact that he had. 'People celebrate all the time,' he continued.

There was never any serious consideration, like, should we do something? Is there even a point of doing it? Or also, is it just a blatant cash grab? So all these things go through your head. In a recent interview with the 'Loaded Radio' podcast, TYPE O NEGATIVE drummer Johnny Kelly was asked if there has ever been any talk of staging a concert in honor of Steele. Kill You Tonight (live at Wacken Open Air 2007) Love You To Death (live at Wacken Open Air 2007)ġ9. Christian Woman (live at Wacken Open Air 2007)ġ8.

Anesthesia (live at Wacken Open Air 2007)ġ7. Black Sabbath (intro) / Christian Woman (live)ġ5. It contains footage of the band's appearance at the 2007 Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany.Īs an added bonus, the live tracks that were only available on the 3LP and CD reissues, including 'Love You To Death', are now available on all streaming services.ġ3. TYPE O NEGATIVE has just released the live music video for 'Love You To Death' just in time for Valentine's Day. On May 5, the band will release 'Dead Again' as a 2LP in black vinyl, light green transparent vinyl, light green/black/white splatter vinyl, and mint green marble vinyl as well as a black cassette. Last fall, the 'Dead Again' 3LP reissue was made available in select colors.

This year marks the 16th anniversary of the record that came out three years before the passing of bassist/vocalist Peter Steele. On March 13, 2007, American gothic metal band TYPE O NEGATIVE released its seventh and final studio album, 'Dead Again'.

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