Never again would Steele make an album that straddled these two worlds, with one foot in a mud-flecked work boot, the other in pristine black leather. In creating Bloody Kisses, Steele re-invented goth metal by grasping on to influences like Black Sabbath and the Beatles, and creating a lane for mainstream goth-influenced bands from Finland’s HIM to Evanescence. Coming out of the 1980s as an all-star in the New York City thrash metal world-a scene that bred bands like Anthrax, Overkill, and Nuclear Assault-he entered the next decade with that same brash attitude, but with an urge to slow things down. But Steele didn’t care about the death metal part he just wanted the doom. The genre was a self-serious mashup of death metal and doom that left little room for outsized personalities like Steele.
Goth metal, then still in its infancy, was made popular in the early ’90s by “The Peaceville Three,” which included My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, and Anathema, all from Northern England. In that same interview, he reveals that the song has some verisimilitude: “It’s about the girl I fucking slashed my wrists over,” a reference to his 1989 suicide attempt. But Steele made an industry of synthesizing the ironic with the sublimely earnest. 1 (Little Miss Scare-All)” is a send-up of the goth-girl archetype (”She’s got a date at midnight with Nosferatu/Oh, baby, Lily Munster ain’t got nothing on you”), the title referring to the only thing a Little Miss Scare-All could ever truly fear: the roots of her hair showing. The vampire of South Brooklyn, who shoveled shit between band practices, cut both a relatable and controversial figure. It was, he later told an interviewer for the deluxe reissue of his band Type O Negative’s landmark third album, Bloody Kisses, about “the ultimate goth girl” who was “in love with herself.” And for three hours, while sitting in traffic waiting to unload a truckful of excrement, he composed a song in his head. He was an archetype for the brooding, hypermasculine metalhead that crawled out of the primordial ooze. The album was produced by Peter Steele and Josh Silver who also aided the mixing of the record. Below is the Dead Again tracklist:īlack Sabbath (intro) / Christian Woman (live)īlack No.Steele looked like a more Nordic Undertaker, or Glenn Danzig but a foot taller.
Pre-order your physical copy of Dead Again here: Ĭheck out the video for “September Sun” belowĭead Again was engineered, mixed, and mastered by Mike Marciano in 2006 at System Two Studios in Brooklyn, NY. Now that the storm has passed we have some slight hope of establishing a small illusion of permanence with this final release of Dead Again. We are sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused you.” As the black cloud continued its relentless path over Type O, Dead Again appeared and disappeared from the streaming platforms for years. Soon after, Peter passed, and then even the rehearsal studio it was written and developed in was burnt to the ground by Hurricane Sandy. TYPE O NEGATIVE‘s Kenny Hickey comments, “The first casualty of this album was the record company – which promptly went under after its release. Green In Bottle Green w/ Black Splatter.Today, the band announces they are offering a limited edition reissue of Dead Again. The following formats are available for Pre-order: This year marks the 15th anniversary of the band’s final record before the passing of bassist/vocalist Peter Steele. On March 13, 2007, American gothic metal band TYPE O NEGATIVE released their seventh and final studio album, Dead Again. LIMITED EDITION REISSUE AVAILABLE ON NOVEMBER 25TH! CELEBRATE 15-YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF DEAD AGAIN
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