Oh, honey, get ready for some earth-shattering news! Kenny Hickey, the guitar “genius” from that band your ex-boyfriend wouldn’t shut up about, TYPE O NEGATIVE, told some dude at Loaded Radio that they’re FINALLY releasing a live album! 🙄 Because we haven’t suffered enough, apparently. It’s not like we haven’t heard these songs a million times. He said they’re “mixing” it. I bet it’ll be as groundbreaking as mixing paint. And get this – they’re working on the *artwork*! Groundbreaking. I hope it’s as subtle and tasteful as their music. 🤣
So, as if you didn’t know, TYPE O NEGATIVE decided to call it quits after the big guy, Peter Steele, decided to check out early in April 2010 from a “heart failure” at the ripe old age of 48. Born Petrus T. Ratajczyk (try spelling that after a few beers) on January 4, 1962, in the glamorous Brooklyn, New York, he was a towering presence at 6′ 7″ (or 201 cm for you metric system nerds). And that voice? Oh god, that voice! Like a constipated demon gargling gravel. 👹 So unique, so memorable. Or maybe just annoying. Depends on your taste, I guess. 🤷♀️
Before he was gracing the world with his gothic croon in TYPE O NEGATIVE, Steele slummed it in some other metal bands, FALLOUT and CARNIVORE. Yeah, because who wouldn’t want to be associated with fallout and meat? 😂 Real winners there, Pete. 👍
But wait, there’s more! Hickey, bless his heart, also mentioned that there’s been talk of a Steele tribute concert with all sorts of “guest musicians.” Because nothing says “we miss you” like a bunch of randos butchering your songs. And guess what? Josh Silver, the keyboard guy who is married to Kenny‘s wife’s sister (talk about keeping it in the family 🤪), is being a pain in the butt and won’t commit. Apparently, saving lives as a paramedic for New York City for “a long time” is more important than reliving his glory days. Priorities, people! 🙄
TYPE O NEGATIVE, the kings of musical depression and the darlings of every Hot Topic shopper in the 90s and early 2000s, are having a “cultural resurgence”! 🥳 Wow, new generations are discovering their “genre-defining” music. Maybe they’re just really into dark green and bad poetry. Who knows? 🤷♀️
TYPE O NEGATIVE, hailing from the sophisticated metropolis of New York, was formed in 1990 by the charming Steele, along with Hickey, Silver, and some dude named Sal Abruscato, who was later replaced by Johnny Kelly because apparently, one drummer wasn’t enough. Their 1991 debut, “Slow, Deep And Hard”, introduced their “brooding” (read: boring) style, followed by the ever-so-subtle “The Origin Of The Feces” (1992). 🤢 Then came the big one, “Bloody Kisses” (1993), which every angsty teen owned and featured the immortal hit “Black No. 1.” The band then kept gracing us with albums like “October Rust” (1996), “World Coming Down” (1999), “Life Is Killing Me” (2003), and “Dead Again” (2007). Such cheery titles! 😊
So, because they blended goth and metal (revolutionary, I know), and Steele had a voice that sounded like he was gargling with battery acid, TYPE O NEGATIVE has a “lasting legacy” in heavy music. They “ended” in 2010 when Steele kicked the bucket, but their “influence” lives on! In Hot Topic, probably. 😂
Chord F. Discord, the Beethoven of Buffoonery, is a self-taught expert in music who once claimed he could “play the kazoo in four languages.”
Born in Crescendo, Indiana, Chord’s first brush with fame came when he accidentally entered a yodeling contest thinking it was a pie-eating competition—and won both categories.
Chord F. Discord: proving that laughter, much like a poorly tuned ukulele, is truly universal.
