Didn't they pull a similar thing back in 2005 or 2006? When the website had a tombstone with his name on it up and it turned out to just be a joke...

yes they did, in preperation for the release of Dead Again in '07 i believe. kind of distasteful but that was always their thing. this is seriously depressing as they have been my absolute favorite band since 98' or so. as some of you have said, i listened to nothing but type o and wore shirts to school almost every day for a few years. i'm just glad i was able to meet the dude and shake his hand

I had the pleasure of meeting Pete at Donington 96. Korn signed for 15 minutes, Type O signed for several hours.

I really wish it wasn't true, but yeah, I'm coming to terms with it. Rather you liked Type O Negative or not, he was still a great member of the metal family. He was a quiet type who had a great sense of humor. His voice itself is one of the more unique voice in all of heavy music as well.

I really can't say much more though than that I wish the best for his family (including bandmates) and friends. RIP.

R.I.P. Pete

This is a real blow. I've been a big fan of the Bloody Kisses album for a good few years now, and got to see the band live a couple of years back (but sadly had to leave early...). I even got to see Carnivore's reunion show at Wacken. Sadly it'll never happen again now.

I have to say, I make fun of Type-O all the time, and have been planning to do a Type-O parody for months now, but I've always had a lot of respect for them. Sad to hear the guy has passed on. One of the few people in alternative music than can genuinely be said to have created a unique sound.

The first song I heard from them was Everything Dies. I didn't know what the hell I was listening to but I loved it. Oh man.... More memories of the music. I use to get picked on the school bus often, just dicked around by a bunch of total pricks. I kept my CD player with me at all times and that was the album (World Coming Down) I would listen to the most to block out the harassment. A lot of my "to hell with the trends and corporate crap" stems from that album. I never dressed dark or was ever troubled, just incredibly backwards and shy-- made for an easy target. It's amazing and frightening what music can do to an individual.

+1, I was hooked after I've stumbled upon "Everything dies" on Viva 2 (amazing German music channel) in late 90s. Had period of obsessive listening as well, loved October Rust. Peter was one of a kind indeed, his bandmates must be crushed

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The first song I heard from them was Everything Dies. I didn't know what the hell I was listening to but I loved it. Oh man.... More memories of the music. I use to get picked on the school bus often, just dicked around by a bunch of total pricks. I kept my CD player with me at all times and that was the album (World Coming Down) I would listen to the most to block out the harassment. A lot of my "to hell with the trends and corporate crap" stems from that album. I never dressed dark or was ever troubled, just incredibly backwards and shy-- made for an easy target. It's amazing and frightening what music can do to an individual.

+1, I was hooked after I've stumbled upon "Everything dies" on Viva 2 (amazing German music channel) in late 90s. Had period of obsessive listening as well, loved October Rust. Peter was one of a kind indeed, his bandmates must be crushed

Moreso than other bands too, because those guys were like a family.

The first song I heard from them was Everything Dies. I didn't know what the hell I was listening to but I loved it. Oh man.... More memories of the music. I use to get picked on the school bus often, just dicked around by a bunch of total pricks. I kept my CD player with me at all times and that was the album (World Coming Down) I would listen to the most to block out the harassment. A lot of my "to hell with the trends and corporate crap" stems from that album. I never dressed dark or was ever troubled, just incredibly backwards and shy-- made for an easy target. It's amazing and frightening what music can do to an individual.

+1, I was hooked after I've stumbled upon "Everything dies" on Viva 2 (amazing German music channel) in late 90s. Had period of obsessive listening as well, loved October Rust. Peter was one of a kind indeed, his bandmates must be crushed

Moreso than other bands too, because those guys were like a family.

Definitely. I love watching interviews with all of them together because you can tell they all have great chemistry and they are all very close. Not to mention they are all hilarious!

I have to say, I make fun of Type-O all the time, and have been planning to do a Type-O parody for months now, but I've always had a lot of respect for them. Sad to hear the guy has passed on. One of the few people in alternative music than can genuinely be said to have created a unique sound.

just out of curiosity, why did you make fun of them? they've always had a sense of humor to never take themselves too seriously. i feel like they've always sort of parodied other cheesy metal bands so i find it odd that you would want to parody them.

Credits for this compilation of Steele quotes go to another fellow Type O fan.


"If you can't eat it or fuck it... then KILL it!"

"This is the United States of America, and you've got a right to hate who you want."

"For her lust she'll burn in hell, her soul done medium well."

"Type O Negative is a non-prophet organization."

"Don't mistake a lack of talent for genius."

"As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked."

"If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing."

"I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious."

"Instead of slashing my wrists, I just write a bunch of really crummy songs."

"Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music."

"It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me."

" I find that different types of music are good for certain activities. I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me."

"I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought."

"I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind."

"I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment."

"I think anyone who has an opinion, and voices it, will offend someone."

"One more time. C'mon, let's make this the last take; my Prozac is wearing off."

"There is one benefit to playing live. Most people hate their jobs in solitude, whereas I get to share my misery with thousands of people."

Pete: *holding up his phone* I've just been informed that I'm kicked out of the band... again.
Interviewer: Really? Don't you write most of the music and all of the lyrics?
Pete: Don't remind me. It's horrible, a giant headache.

"I’ve asked the band’s management for 48 hours notice when I have to do interviews, and sometimes they’re not that…courteous. *clears throat* And I’m not here when certain people call, just because, well, you know, if I have to go and get the appendix removed, I just can’t wait."

"I’ve been voted 'Sweatiest Bass Player!'"

"The creative process is that I have ideas which I exploit into a money making opportunity for record executives. Someone is going to get rich, probably not us."

"It was a rare occasion today that the food [on tour] was actually good. The meat was identifiable. This appears to be formerly chicken, and that was pig. Not together, but actually separate animals."

"Any woman will tell you that a creature with testicles is a pathological liar. Seeing as I have four testicles, you can expect extra lies from me."

"Now I see many of you out there are drinking, and you most certainly have either work or school tomorrow morning. Don't worry. Doctor Pete will sign your permission slip, but only if he can sleep at your house tonight."

"I see a lot of new faces in the audience tonight. Who bribed you to show up, and why aren't they just giving the money to me?"

"I'm hoping the record company can get this fucking tour going by October. I love playing Halloween shows, both because it's fun and because no one in the band has to wear a mask."

Interviewer: So I've been listening to your new album...
Pete: Really? And you're still talking to me? That's a remarkable pain threshold.

"Our new album is a bit more hardcore. The songs are somewhat shorter. Instead of being, roughly fifteen minutes, they’ll be, about fourteen and a half."

"When you change jobs, there are a whole set of unwritten rules that nobody tells you. You just have to learn them by making a dick out of yourself. Nobody tells you 'you’re not supposed to piss in that toilet you're supposed to shit in that toilet.' Which is how jail was."

"The next album will have more songs about women and fire, and me complaining for fifteen minutes about getting old."

Pete: I can always play the monster in a horror movie. Just ask any of my ex-girlfriends.
Interviewer: I don’t know any of your ex-girlfriends, so there’s no follow-up.
Pete: That’s because they’re incapacitated at the moment.

"I loved what he wrote, but I thought, 'I’m gonna fuck with him...' So I made something resembling a dictator who is about to give his final speech- in a language that doesn’t even exist! And so that’s why there’s tubas and snare drums and tanks and planes flying overhead and basso profundo… It's the kind of thing that makes people ask 'what the fuck is wrong with him?' I know that’s what they were saying about me! But, hey- I have an excuse: I was born a breach birth. I wasn’t breast-fed until I was 19 years old, and it was a surrogate so I didn’t get all those antibodies. My immune system’s fucked up! I have a million excuses, you know?"

"I’ve got a social phobia, believe it or not. I really don’t like crowds, but thankfully I’m a fuckin’ masochist; that’s why I’ve chosen this line of work."

"When I go out I not to drink, because it just turns me into 'instant asshole' and makes me want to self-medicate. I might have a couple of drinks and if I’m having really bad anxiety, I’ve been known to drink two bottles of vodka. I’m 6’7” and I’m half Polish/Russian and so - 'Woof, Woof!' - I got the alcohol genes up my ass. Sometimes I wind up getting into situations that I’d rather not be in, and really can’t trust myself. Sometimes I have a short fuse, and I’ve gotten into trouble."

"I want to do an album called 'Dis-Covered by Peter Steele,' where we play everyone else's songs badly."

"I should have been born about a thousand years ago in Russia, and died on a frozen battlefield with a sword through my head."

"I have a ‘black’ soul- that’s why I can use the ‘N-word.'"

"The only thing I will agree with is botulism. I'm totally for it. People ask me, ‘Are you right-wing or left-wing?’ I’m chicken-wing. I’m afraid of everything. I’m afraid to take sides. I’m a Groucho-Marxist, because whatever it is, I'm against it."

"I really wanted to marry Mrs. Swanson. If she fucked the way that she cooked then I’d be very happy, because I would know what I was going to get every time. Either way it’s going in the oven, right?"

"I can say Carnivore and Type O Negative are true rock bands, because your parents aren’t going to like this music. And if they do like it you better find different parents."

"I play bass because I like to make earth-rumbling sounds, and also because I’m an idiot. I can only handle four strings, not six."

“It’s nice to be back in action, seeing some of the fans that I’ve been meeting for the last 17, 18 years, which is a long time. Now our fans have kids who are our fans. Then again, they could be my kids.”

“I was unaware that Playgirl was a gay publication. I was under the impression it was for lonely housewives or something. It doesn’t matter to me it was just a publicity stunt. That’s all it was. I kind of regret it because I feel like I exploited myself, but when management is telling you to do it and the band’s telling you to do it and the record company’s telling you to do it…and they offer one page and then three and then the cover and then the centerfold. ‘You’ll sell so many albums if you do it.’ And I go, ‘I’ll fuckin’ do it.’ The greatest part about it was it kind of escalated. They had me on their Ten Sexiest Rockers issue, and I don’t know why they chose me to come in for a headshot. This head. The one on top of my neck (laughs). And so I go down there and they say ‘You wanna take your shirt off?’ and I say ‘sure.’ I happened to bathe that month so it was okay. Then they pretty much made me an offer that I couldn’t refuse, to pose nude and this and that. I have read Playboy. It’s as classy as pornography can get. Nice layout, I don’t think it’s demeaning to women. So I’m thinking Playgirl’s like that. So they send me these issues and I was underwhelmed a little bit. Thumbing through them I’m thinking ‘Man, all these guys are flaccid. I said I’ll do this shoot under one circumsi…I almost said circumcision (laughs). I said ‘I want to be erect.’ And they said ‘Oh, do you really think you can do it?’ I said ‘You hold your end up by bringing the check and I’ll hold mine up.’ I go and do it. Apparently I was the first person to have an erect penis during a shoot. So now I’m trying to hide this from all of my family members because I have five older sisters and 9,000 cousins, something like that. So I come in one night and the Playgirl issue is on the dining room table and my mother’s sitting there. My sister was in the other room and I said ‘Did Mama see it? You showed it her, right?’ She’s like, ‘Yeah.’ I said, ‘Well, what did she say?’ So my sister says “That’s why I named him Peter.” (laughs) My mother had a great sense of humor. I’m still a good Catholic boy, deep down. Nothing’s funnier than laughing in church.”

I heard he was about to start Carnivore again